Life Lately

Alexa is Caitlyn's best friend here in Provo.  For Alexa's birthday she chose to have a fun night out with Caitlyn.  They went to dinner, went to Color Me Mine and then back to Alexa's house to make ear rings.  Caitlyn was so excited for it and had so much fun.  Kari sent me this picture of the girls.

Jonah and his friends planned a surprise going away party for Tanner.  Erin was nice enough to host it and help the boys make it happen. Jonah asked me to make a Jell-O cake for the party.  The boys had a blast together and really made Tanner feel special.  Tanner leaves this weekend and it is going to be hard on Jonah.  They have only lived here for seven months, but Jonah and Tanner are together every day with very few exceptions.  I've seen Jonah try and pull away from Tanner to try and make it easier, but I think he is realizing that it won't help, he is going to miss him and it's going to hurt! Luckily Jonah has a lot of good friends around here, but I think they will all miss Tanner.

Jonah finished up his basketball season a couple of weeks ago.  They finished the season 8-1 and it was a heart breaker to see them go out of the play offs in the first round with a two-point loss!  

They were disappointed, but I think they are all proud of their season.  They worked hard and gave it their all every game.  Now we are on to March league.  They play six games in March and three of them are this week.  

Wyatt loves to watch You Tube videos.  He has been watching some about building box forts so he wanted to build one.  He spent his money on boxes and got to work with Keith making a fort.  

Caitlyn helped him decorate it and Wyatt said he has to shoot you with a dart if you want to come in.  He has added all sorts of fun things in his fort and had some frustration because it is not as durable as he would like.  I love Wyatt's passion about things, he gets so excited about things!

Wyatt also likes to watch Life Hack videos on You Tube.  When he told me that he wanted to make something I knew Caitlyn was the perfect one to help him.  This is right up both of their alley.  He stores all of his special rocks on this tray.

Hallee and I were playing a game together and Keith came in the room and said we looked so much  alike, so we had to take a picture!  I sure love my sweet girl.  She is so easy going and very thoughtful and considerate.  She always asks me how my day was and tells me that she loves me all the time.  

Hallee loves to write notes and they are so sweet!  Keith and I love the sweet notes that she writes us.  She has really good hand writing too.  This note was for Tessa and says, "I love my friend Tessa.  She is 6 years old.  She is a bright star.  She is the best in the world.  She is my BFF because she is silly and kind.  Sometimes we fight but then we are friends again.  We wish we were twins."   

Hallee always draws cute pictures to go along with her notes.  I just love the stage she is in right now.

Jackson begs any time one of us has food.  He may drive me crazy, but he is cute!

We celebrated my dad's birthday on Sunday.  I was searching for gift ideas on Amazon and I saw this shirt and knew that is what I wanted to get him.  

Wyatt and Rockwell well did a drum roll before every present.  They are so cute.

Hallee wrote grandpa a nice note and drew him a picture.