Hayden's 5!!!

We can't believe that Hayden's 5 years old!! We have had a wonderful weekend celebrating Hayden's birthday! He had a fabulous "Pirate Birthday Party" with his friends on Saturday and then a fun "Family Party" on Sunday. 

Hayden loved helping me plan for his pirate party and helped set up for most of it. He was so excited to spend the day with his friends and couldn't wait for his guests to arrive. What a big boy!

Our favorite pirate boy!  He pulled out his pirate hat that morning and decided to wear it for most of his party. Happy 5th birthday buddy! 

 Enjoying the treasure island bouncy house and pirate ship piñata!  

Hayden picked out his birthday cake and absolutely LOVED it!  His friends loved it too.

Our special boy... we love you as big as the sky Hayden!!!

Adrienne's family at the birthday celebration!

 Kyle's family celebrating Hayden's birthday! 

We have a very special boy and we always feel so blessed to be his mommy and daddy. Here's to a wonderful year 5 with our favorite little man!!

KEEP MOVING FORWARD!

Adrienne

A wonderful trip!

Kyle and I just got back from a surprise trip to Ko Olina, Hawaii!  We had such a great time and we got some much needed R & R. We had a blast with Brooke (Kyle's sister) and Brooke's friend Rashni. Here are some of our favorite experiences and pics from our trip!!

We hiked up to the top of Diamond Head and loved the beautiful ocean views, especially this view of Waikiki!

Enjoying the luau at the Polynesian Cultural Center.

Waiting to walk into the P.C.C.'s new show "Ha, Breath of Life". It was absolutely amazing... go see it if you get a chance! 

Hayden stayed with both his Grandma and his Nana and Papa. He stayed busy the entire time with all sorts of fun activities like fishing, The Dinosaur Museum, play dates with cousins, soccer and much, much more. But he was so happy when we got home and we were so happy to see him... we missed him so, so much!

The sunsets were amazing!

We went snorkeling in Hanauma Bay.

 We swam with Mr. Turtle for about 20 minutes! It was such a beautiful experience.

We had a wonderful trip. We are glad to be home with Hayden and planning his birthday party is now on the top of everyone's list- especially Hayden's- Jack Sparrow and pirate celebrations... here we come!!

I hope everyone had a wonderful week.

KEEP MOVING FORWARD!

Adrienne

Spring Break!

We have had a wonderful Spring Break. We have been playing a lot.  We spent one day shopping at City Creek with Nana and did a little bit of gardening with Papa earlier this week.  I think that I'm going to need a vacation from my Spring Break Stay-Cation!

 Easter Egg Hunt with our friends and visiting the Easter Bunny!

Practicing for Hayden's soccer game.  We are so glad that its Spring again!!

Feeding the ducks at The Dinosaur Park and enjoying some lunch with some buddies!

Jumping at the Kangaroo Zoo... hilarious!!

Creating a bug trap to see what kind of bugs we can catch overnight. :)

Enjoying a play date with our cousins and Grandma at the Children's Discovery Museum in Gateway... such a fun day!

First soccer game of the season. I love how much he is enjoying this!!!

We got a little bit of swimming in!

And a lot of bikes rides too!

Watching a show with cousins... too cute!

Played camping with Nana!

We had some pirate fighting going on!

And some birthday celebrations with friends. We have had the best Spring Break and we are so glad that we were home to spend it with all of our dear friends and family!! 

I hope you've all had a wonderful week!

KEEP MOVING FORWARD!

Adrienne

Easter

We had a great Easter. The Easter bunny came and created a special trail to find Hayden's Easter basket. We decorated our eggs and then we celebrated in church.  Finally, we spent the rest of the day with family. What a wonderful day we all had!

 The Easter Bunny tricked Hayden and left a basket for mommy and daddy inside on the counter. He left a note by it, for Hayden, that said "Happy Easter Hayden. Follow the robots, one by one. They will lead you to lots of fun!" The robot trail lead to a secret location outside where Hayden's Easter basket was hiding!

Happy Easter buddy!

 Easter Eggs... SILLY!

I was setting up the camera and snapped this special shot. I love my boys!

Easter Family photo 2012

 Nana hid Easter baskets for all of us. An Easter tradition in my family that will probably last forever!  

 Happy Easter with Nana and Papa!

The only pic I was able to snap of the cousins on Easter. They were all off playing the whole night!  Too busy having fun to stop for pictures!!

Easter Egg hunt in Grandma and Grandpa's back yard... fun times!  The cousins spent most of the evening outside playing together.

Happy Birthday Dad!  We celebrated Easter AND Steve's birthday. What a celebration it was!!  We always have a party with our families. It doesn't matter why we're getting together, it's always a good time! All of the kids were too busy playing outside all night to come in and eat cake and ice-cream with Grandpa. This is our birthday picture tradition with Kyle's family. Happy birthday dad!

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter. It was such a wonderful and special day. I love every single family member of mine and I feel grateful to be surrounded by so many wonderful people. What a fantabulous day!!

KEEP MOVING FORWARD!

Adrienne

Another proud moment!

Hayden came walking out of preschool with a metal around his neck and all of the teachers and teacher's aides burst into applause. I was so proud of my little man because I knew that he had just earned his Blending Badge. He has been working towards learning how to blend vowels and syllables together and he has finally achieved it!  He is reading at level one and I am so proud of my smart little guy! Way to go Hayden!!!

Our new little reader!

I am always so proud of you and I love you bigger than the sky buddy!

KEEP MOVING FORWARD!

Adrienne

A fun weekend!

This has been such a fun weekend. We spent a lot of time at home together as a family- learning wonderful and insightful ways to be more loving towards each other and always making sure that each of us feels loved and cherished!

We also headed up to The Dinosaur Park yesterday afternoon. It was such a beautiful day and we had to get out and enjoy some fun in the sun!

Enjoying the wonderful Spring weather at Dinosaur Park. One of Hayden's favorite dinosaurs is the pterodactyl. (I sure DID have to look up the spelling on that one! ha ha)

It was also a pretty windy day so we decided to pull out the kite. We attempted flying the kite in our cultesac, but it wasn't quite working very well, so we took a bike ride to the park, flew the kite and pretended to fly like birds for the rest of the afternoon. 

This has been a wonderful, uplifting weekend. I hope you all have a fabulous week!  And now I am hearing all kinds of giggles coming from the other room... I'm going to go join in on the fun!

KEEP MOVING FORWARD!

Adrienne