My plan for gifts this year is all homemade. I started making cookies and freezing them before Thanksgiving. So on Thursday I finishing them all up. I started baking and frosting at 8am. By the time I finished my part it was 5 o'clock. I was so tired my feet hurt just ready to pass out on the couch. But I wasn't done yet. It was time to bake sugar cookies with Elijah and Jaidon. They were so excited, they had been waiting all day to do this. They each had a rolling pin and rolled as hard as they could to make the dough flat. Elijah was really good at using the cookie cutters and making sure that each one was spaced out. Jaidon on the other hand just went to town stamping out the cookies. He had stars mixed in with trees, angels wings on Santa's foot. That's the great thing about cookies you can roll it out and start all over again. While the cookies where drying we all made french bread pizza. They were so excited to be "cooking for real". They spread the pizza sauce on the bread and put all there own toppings and on and Elijah put the pizzas in the oven. As they were cooking we looked out side and it had started to snow. The boys grabbed their coats and ran out side. Elijah showed Jaidon how to make a snow ball and hit mommy. (Jaidon thought it was so funny) We came back in ate our pizzas and got to decorating the cookies. We had a mess every where! I never said a word just let the boys decorate how ever they wanted to. I enjoyed just standing there watching them. It was so nice and peaceful that I didn't dare get my camera and ruin the moment. They helped each other and laughed together. Elijah told me this is the best time ever to which Jaidon replied "oh yeah it is". That time with them meant so much to me especially with William gone. We were just able to enjoy being together. I seem to get distracted when William is gone with all the little things that need to be done. But little things can wait my boys can not. I'll always cherish this memory.
So I finally got our spring soccer pictures up. We really had a great time. The boys learned so much. Jaidon learned how not to get mad when he didn't get to kick the ball. And as my first experience as a coach I did pretty well.
We did a soccer theme for Elijah's birthday. I made the cake. Not only did it look good it tasted great.
Brennon and Josh entertained us by singing songs by Pink. You can tell who has older sisters.
Jaidon just wanted to dive into the cake.
Joe and Garrett waiting to eat cake.
The table was a little big Elijah really had to reach to blow out his candles. Maybe that means he got an extra wish?
But Big Daddy's always there to help when he needs it.
So many good presents he could hardly contain his happiness.
All the boys were excited Big Daddy is still a boy at heart .
A game of baseball broke out.........................................................
But was shortly interrupted by burps and armpit fart.
I guess when that happens you know you had a great 9 year old birthday party.
It was such a beautiful day in Tennessee on election day. My mom, Elijah, Joe and his mom Ginny stayed at the polls all day. When Joe and Elijah got home they were so dirty from playing outside.
Joe was teaching Jaidon how to be a sign twerler. He looked pretty cute in his batman mask twerling a Joe Carr sign. But it worked all out people won!! Good job boys.
Halloween was a lot of fun. Elijah was off camping with all the men in our family, but Joe was nice enough to help us take Jaidon trick or treating.
We stopped at Bubba's house to get some candy. He had some pretty spooky stuff out front. There's a dead guy driving that car.
In the end Jaidon got cheated out of candy. We only took him to a few places. But he's only three so his hand full of candy was just enough for him. Poor buddy next year he'll have Elijah to show him how it is really done.
