3 Years Old!

Kashton turned 3 a few weeks ago, making him an official "big boy". I planned a party for weeks in advance, did my shopping and got all prepared to make his birthday a happy one. I had told Kashton weeks before his birthday that I would take him to Megamind on his birthday but thought for sure that he would forget about it. The night before his birthday he told me "My birthday is tomorrow mom, we get to go see Megamind". So...

To Megamind we went. We saw it in 3D although Kashton didn't want to keep his glasses on at all. The whole time we were watching the movie I spent the whole time thinking of all the things that I needed to get done for his party and wondered why I always do this to my self.

For his birthday party we decided to do a superhero theme. We had superhero baloons, superhero confetti, superhero's everywhere. Tons of people showed up and piled in to my tiny little house to celebrate Kashton getting older. All his friends and all his family crammed in to one space. We made superhero masks, all the kids did a great job on their masks.

After the masks we sang happy birthday and ate his Spiderman cupcake cake that I let him pick out at Sam's Club. All the kids had stained faces and full bellies for pin the "S" on Superman. They all made it really close but the winner was..... Tayte! We put temporary tatoos on the little one and let them run wild for a little before they all went home with a goodie bag.

Kashton had an absolutely wonderful birthday filled with friends and fun and birthday presents galore. In fact I believe I have made a monster of him!!

Going to the Lodge, Great Wolf Lodge. GREAT WOLF LODGE

My nephew Ross turned 6 this week and for his birthday his mom and dad planned an abslolutely fabulously fun couple of days at the Great Wolf Lodge in Grapevine Texas. They invited us to go and I was lucky enough to get a few days off work and school to take Kashton down there for tons and tons of fun. Great Wolf Lodge is this great hotel that has an indoor waterpark that you can play at. Kashton had such a great time on all the slides. He went on some really big ones all by himself and thought that it was the best thing that ever happened to him. He played in the toddler pool and went down the two big slides that he could go on for two days straight and still didn't want to leave. It was a great time!

All the boys getting ready to start having fun on the slides. Kyler, Keaton, Kason, Kashton and Ross, half of them look so excited don't they!

For dinner that night we went to the Rainforest Cafe it is a huge forest with fish every where and motorized animals. The kids had a blast!

The whole hotel was awesome. Even the hallways were fun for the kids.

Kashton had so much fun that at the waterpark he fell asleep for a few hours cause he was so pooped! I couldn't believe that he slept so much with so much excitement all around!

We bought him wolfy wolfy as a present to remember the trip by. He hasn't let go of him since we left

Kashton was so brave! Here is him going down one of the big slides all by himself

A little late on the Utah post

We went to Utah a few months back to visit my friend Ellie whose husband past away. Here are just a few pics of all the fun things we did. Kashton with Talan hanging out at Kara's house. It was really nice because the boys have never been very good at playing together but this time they did wonderfully so it gave Kara and I time to catch up!

I had a girls night with Ellie, Ashley and Susan. I haven't seen some of them in a really great time so it was so very wonderful to see them.

My parents wedding anniversary was while we were there so we all went out to dinner at Texas Roadhouse and celebrated.

We went shopping a few times and they had a train that went around the mall so of coarse Kashton just had to ride it.

We also went to the aquarium with Ellie and her son Colin. Here they are looking at a snake (or No Feet as Colin calls him) We had a ton of fun and these boys to played and got a long it was great. We went to their house after and the boys had fun messing up their room. In fact after we left I asked Kashton what he did at Colin's house and he told me "Make a mess of his room mom"

We did a whole lot of fun things with family and friends and had a grand ol' time. I don't get to go home often enough. I wish that was different. Thanks to everyone who made this trip so wonderful.

Christopher Hales

One of my very best friends in the world passed away yesterday Feb. 6th 2010. I will miss him very much and he will remain in my hy heart forever. Ellie and Colin are the loves of my life and I want them to know that they are also in my heart. I love you Chirs and I am so greatful for the friendship that we shared. Chris was such an amazing person and he will be missed.

Snow Stomping

I do believe that my child was meant to live in Utah because he absolutely adores the snow. On Thursday it snowed here in good ol' OK, and I do mean actually snowed, like snow snow. Anyway on Thursday night after some had come down Mike took Kashton outside for a minute to look at the snow, he came back in the house and excitedly told me "mama I snow stompin". All day Friday he was asking to go snow stomping (which is just as it sounds stomping the snow with his boots) but I had a lot to do around the house so it had to wait. Once Mike got home and I went to work the snow fun was on.

Mike let Kashton wear his Viking stuff and bring his sword outside with him. When I got home I asked him if he played in the snow and he told me that he chopped it with his sword.

Kashton "snow stomping" right outside our front door.

Covered in snow after he was done playing. It doesn't seem to bother him that he is getting wet and cold.

On Saturday Mike wanted to go "snowboarding" (really just sliding down a small hill on his snowboard) with a few of his friends. He asked if I wanted to bring Kashton sledding while they snowboarded so we went to a hill and went sledding. Kashton absolutely LOVED it. Every time that we would get to the bottom he would stand up, shake off the snow, and say "again mommy" so again we went.

Kashton standing on Mike's snowboard trying it out. He tells me that he wants to snowboard. I think we will wait a few years for that though.

At the bottom of the hill after the first time that we went down.

We had so much fun I think we are going to try to go again!!

Haha

Just haha

Fine Art

I have been trying really hard to get Kashton more interested in creative art projects. He doesn't even really get into coloring. So this last week as we had some mother son time to spend with each other I took that time to try out some new art supplies that we had. These projects went much better then ones I have tried in the past. He really seemed to enjoy himself and so did I.

The first night we tried our "hand" at finger painting. Haha I just came up with that.

He would say "painting, painting, ewww mom its a mess" every time he would put his fingers in the paint.

This was his "rainbow" that he decided to paint. Hummm an all blue rainbow.

He took a bath right after and he kept showing me his hands to let me know they had paint on them and he needed to get clean.

The second night was all about sticker pictures, much easier and less messy.

Once he got to the coloring portion he was concentraiting very had, he wanted to get them just right.


Here are the finished products, they are up on our fridge as both he and I are very proud of them.

Christmas and Such

I know that I am quite a bit behind on my blogging so I thought I would start back up again with our wonderful Christmas season. Kashton finally got it this year and would run around the house screaming CHRISTMAS at the top of his lungs days before the actual event. I tried to threaten him with "if you don't behave Santa is going to bring you any presents" and he would look at me and say OK. Then he watch Dora's Christmas Carol where Swiper gets put on the naughty list and from then on all I had to say was do you want to be put on the naughty list like Swiper and he would behave, why can't that work all year long.

Getting ready for Christmas this year was fun, it is nice to be able to buy presents for someone who actually gets excited for opening their presents. We decorated as a family this year just a few days after Thanksgiving and Kashton thought it was great fun to put all the ornaments on one side of the tree. Sadly I didn't get a picture of Kashton decorating the tree but here is the finished product.

On Christmas Eve we had a snow storm, by Oklahoma standards it was large. I guess OK hasn't seen snow like that ever, or something to that dramatic effect. We got stranded in our apartment and Christmas Eve at Mike's parents was called off. We didn't have much food in our house because we had planned to eat all our meals for the next couple of days at Papa and Gigi's house so we ended up having to make Mexican for dinner on Christmas Eve.

Here is the snow drift outside our back door that was taller that Kashton.

This is our wonderful Christmas dinner Mexi style!

Our family tradition like most is to open pj's for Chrismas Eve, we also open a Christmas book and a Christmas movie to read and watch in our comfy pj's before we go to bed. After watching the movie I thought for sure that Kashton would go to bed but nope, up all night, that's my son. Finally around 2 he fell asleep and I could get everything done that I needed to.

Here is mommy and Kashton in our Christmas Pj's (yes I do realize that I look absolutely horrible but this was the only picture that he was looking at the camera)

Kashton and daddy also got slippers for Christmas Eve, Kashtons are Monkey slippers with which he is totally obsessed.

Christmas morning I had to wake Kashton up because he had fallen asleep so late, but once he woke up he was very excited to see what Santa brought him.

Before Santa came to visit.

After Santa came, yes he did bring way to much.

When he walked out in to the living room he was very excited to see all of his presents. My parents Skyped with us to watch Kashton open his presents which was really nice, it almost felt like we were with them for Christmas. I think they had a good time too. Kashton kept trying to show them his slippers.

Kashton seeing all the presents that Santa brought for the first time, as you can see he was very excited

I have more to blog about Christmas but I will save that for tomorrow. We had a great year this year and I can't wait for years to come when Kaston gets more excited for Christmas and when he has siblings to celebrate with.