Happy Birthday Jordan!

I am so proud of my boy! Jordan has such a sweet loving heart! He turned 10 on the 23rd and I still can't believe how fast these last 10 years went by! Jordan absolutely loves sports! All sports! But he's been playing a lot of basketball this year. He keeps telling us he's ready for football but we just didn't have to time to commit to it this year so we promised next year he can start. He does very well in all sports and Jason delights in his sons athletic coordination. They spend many days out in front of the house throwing the football around.
Jordan has had 3 notes sent home in the last few months from the principal of his school, giving him praise for taking care of and helping other kids in the school. He has become really close to an autistic boy in his class who just adores Jordan and he has made everyone proud for sticking up for this boy and helping him with school and friends. Jordan loves to play outside and disappears for hours rollerblading, skateboarding, or playing ball, he is so happy as long as he's 'moving'! I am so proud of the way he is growing up and for his growing testimony in the gospel. He loves to bear his testimony in church and he is such a strength to our family!! I love you so so much buddy! Happy Happy Birthday!

Hair problems

Before

After

So the other day I mentioned to Jordan that he needed 'another' haircut and how I hated it being long because it seemed like every three weeks we were having to get it cut! So two days ago he asked if I could just trim his bangs because they were bugging his eyes. So after the shower I trimmed them up and sent him to school. When I picked him up I noticed that my little trim job wasn't so good... Ooops! His bangs looked horrible! He didn't seem to care too much until I couldn't stop laughing. I wasn't really laughing at him as much as at the fact that I actually thought I did a great job... So after his shower last night he asked if I could just buzz his head. I offered to take him to the salon and they could fix it or give him a nice short cut if he wanted but he insisted! So we did it! I regret it now. I loved his look! But.... Like I told him... Hair will always grow back! This morning he told me he didn't want to go to school and he thinks he looks like a girl with cancer. So SAD! I told him he is so handsome it doesn't matter what his hair looks like!

"OUCH!"

My sweet little Brinley seems to be bursting at the seams with energy and sometimes it get her into trouble... The other night she was playing around in her room and "fell" off of Saddie's bed and hit her head on the toy box. It left a huge hematoma on her face and the next day she woke up with a horrible black eye. She was so embarrassed to go to school and wore her hair down to cover it. She said both her teacher and her Principal asked what happened... Of course this was the day after her teacher called and asked it something was going on at home because Brinley was really struggling in class....Of course! She's almost better now and just for your info, the struggling in class is due to all the energy!

Halloween Costumes

Mikayla was Cleopatra, Jordan a Mummy
Saddie was a Puppy (NOT A DOG!) and Brinley
was a Witch.......

After a long Saturday morning we headed up to Grandma's and then back home. Our homes are so close together here that the kids got a lot of candy in a short amount of time. Jordan took off around 5 and we didn't see him again 'till 10:30. Mikayla's cousin Kaitlyn came over and they set up their Webkinz and Jason actually had to kick them out of the house to go Trick-or-treating. I took the little girls out early so by night fall they had a blast hangin' out with dad by the candy scaring kids.... Jason was thrilled there were SO many kids to scare! We had a great Halloween but I have decided I really don't like all the craziness.... I was a little bit of a party pooper this year!

Jason Kaitlyn and Mikayla