fast fact friday #3

Questions:

1.  What was the last movie you saw in the theaters?

2.  What was the last movie you watched at home?

3.  Who is your favorite movie star?

4.  What movie can you watch over and over again and not get sick of it?

5.  What movie will you never watch again?

Answers:

1.  Arthur Christmas, with the boys, their cousins, and my parents

2.  Breaking Dawn, part 1

3.  Sandra Bullock...love her!

4.  White Christmas, Miracle, Back to the Future (part 1)

5.  Napoleon Dynamite

the latest

I totally stink at taking pictures lately since I'm not taking a picture a day.  But, here's what's been going on around here, in case you were dying to know:

-Our DVR receiver died last week.  They came and replaced it for no charge, but we lost hours and hours of the kids favorite shows.  Major bummer.

-We got some snow last week and had a great time sledding with the cousins at my parents house.

-Kaden is consistently getting 3's at school (that's a huge deal).

-Last week was a hard week for me.  For some reason, my infertility slapped me in the face pretty hard.  

-I'm doing the invitations for a birth mother dinner that our agency hosts every year.  They are really cute, and told me I'd need approx. 100.  I made 120 just to be safe, and then was informed I needed 180.  Totally frustrated.

-The battery in the van died.  We went out to take Kaden to school, and it was completely dead.  Thankfully,  my dad came up to help take care of it when Kyle was at work.  What a good Papa we have.

-If you ask Bosten what his name is, he'll tell you "Bosten Boodle Bear" every time.  So cute.

-We celebrated my birthday a day early and went to Olive Garden on Friday night with my parents.  It was really good and the kids were really great .

fast fact friday #2

Questions:

1.  How do you like your chocolate?

2.  What dessert or treat can you never say "no" to?

3.  What is your favorite meal?

4.  Which food do you dislike the most?

5.  What do you think is the healthiest thing in your pantry right now?

Answers:

1.  I'm not that picky about chocolate.  Chocolate is chocolate, and I'm pretty much a fan of it all.  Well, I take that back.  White chocolate is down the list.

2.  I'm pretty much a fan of anything chocolate.

3.  I love good Mexican food.  I'm still looking for a really good spot in Utah.  We've found a few good ones, but nothing fantastic.  If you have suggestions, I'd love to hear them.

4.  Not a huge fan of salmon, pesto, or cooked carrots.

5.  Dried bananas that I made in the food dryer recently.

our little singer

Bosten is a singer.  

He sings all the time:  in the car, in his bed, in the rocking chair, when he's playing with toys...You get the idea.

In general, he's got 2 volumes (loud and really loud), but when he sings, its this cute high voice.  Right now, his song of choice is "I Am A Child Of God".

You need to pause the music on the bottom of the blog.

fast fact friday

Yes, I realize I'm a day late.  I stumbled on a blog that's purpose is to help you tell your story.  I'm really good at talking about stuff we've done, but not necessarily about who we are.  So, let's see how this goes.

Week 1 Questions:

1.  How long have you lived at your current residence?

2.  What is the exact shade of your favorite color?

3.  How much sleep do you get at night?

4.  Have you ever been able to do the splits?

 5.  What is your favorite breakfast?

My Answers:

1.  We've lived here 2 years, 4 months.  Our plan was that we weren't going to be here very long, and in reality, this is one of the longest times we've been in one place.  Funny.

2.  Fire Engine Red.

3.  I require a lot of sleep to function.  I'd like to get at least 8 hours.  For some reason (since Christmas), the boys have had a hard time sleeping, and we've been up every night with one, but usually both, boys.  

4.  Actually, yes...but only on the right side.  I was on the dance/drill team in high school and did them all the time.  For some reason, after having knee surgery, I could never get all the way down on the left side.  Weird.

5.  I really like slimy hashbrowns that are crispy on top. 

a fun week

We've been celebrating Kaden's birthday for a few days.  Since there wasn't school yesterday, we got to go into his class on Thursday.  His teacher had a hat all ready for him, along with a special chair in the front of the room:

We talked about how great Kaden is and how glad we are that he's in our family.  We took pictures with us, and talked about some of Kaden's favorite things.

We took treats for all of the kids too.  Kaden requested maple bars, served on Army napkins.  I didn't take a picture of it, but believe me when I say they were great donuts.  The Army napkins were super great, too.  

We also took Army guys (4 green, 4 brown wrapped in cellophane), so that all of the kids could have their own Army battles at home.

Friday morning, I spent 3+ hours working on his cake.  I'm the first to admit that usually I'm all about quick and easy, but I saw something similar online and decided to go for it.  

Best. Cake. Ever....according to Kaden.  

Homemade chocolate frosting.

Watch towers made from rice crispies treats.

Fence surrounding the base made from pretzel sticks.

Rock border made from sugar cubes, spray painted with edible paint.

Dirt on cake and around bottom made from crushed graham crackers.

More on the cake in a minute.

Kyle had to work, so Kaden got to open his gifts before Daddy left for work.  He was so nice about letting Bosten help.

We hung out for awhile, and headed down to Herriman to swim at the rec. center with all of his cousins.  It was so, so fun but I didn't take any pictures.

After swimming, we went to Rock Creek Pizza.  

After we sang and he blew out his candle, he informed me that he was so full from eating pizza that he didn't want any cake.  Not one bite.  Funny kid.  He missed out, because it was really good.

We're still not done partying for his birthday!  Tonight we're going out to dinner with Uncle Ryan, Aunt Kerry, and the kids.  So excited.

Its been a pretty fun few days for a pretty great kid.  Happy Birthday, buddy.  We love you!

happy birthday...

...to one of my favorite people.

Its crazy how one phone call changed everything.

We love you Kaden!!