Birthday - First Day of School - Birthday - Birthday - Birthday!

July and August are usually busy months! 2010 was no different!

Brody's birthday theme this year was SOCCER! We played a soccer game, had soccer cupcakes, and broke open a soccer pinata! He also went golfing with dad and received roller blades to help fine tune his skating!

Then we had the first day of school for everyone:

Karson is in the 4th grade with Ms. Matthews

Brody is in the 1st grade with Miss Cleverly

Bennett is in Preschool with Ms. Lindsey

Dad had his 37th birthday!

Karson turned 9 this year and celebrated with a Slip N Slide party!

Mom had her 34th birthday (am I really that age?)

It was a great birthday... my friends and the help of Brad and Ashlee threw a suprise bbq party with all my great friends and thier families... I couldn't have thought of a better way to spend my birthday!!!

Preschool!

Bennett graduated with flying colors from his 1st year of preschool! We had a little party to celebrate in May 2010. He had lots of fun with his preschool buddies: Evan, Kade, Lauren S. and Lauren W. and this was all possible because of the wonderful moms they have! :)

Bennett Turned 4!

Our Bennett Boy turned 4 and wanted to celebrate with his friends, family, and the "Backyardigans" We had a backyard adventure with games like Surfs up, Soccer Monster, Polka Party, and Race Around the World!

We also had cupcakes representing each Backyardigan and Bennett received lots of fun presents!

Candy Cane Lightning!!!

It's Bennett's turn to play soccer and he is on fire... or maybe that's Lightning!

Bennett loves to play soccer,

loves to play with his friends,

loves to score goals,

loves to have the game treats

loves running around

and loves reenacting and commentating later every good play he made!

The team's name is fairly self-explanatory at least the first part (check out the uniforms)... but then the lightning was added to make it sound cool for the boys :)...

It's actually a lot of fun to watch... for four year olds, they move the ball fairly well and quite a few goals are scored... Ben's friend Kade is such a good little soccer player and can score whenever, but he also is a good play maker and gives assists for others to score too. Ben does a great job running and kicking the ball... He kicked and dribbled the ball from one end of the field to the other.... I think his tally is up to 5 goals. Go Team!

Happy Birthday Bennett!

April 24, 2009
Our "Benny" turns 3 today!
Bennett, you are such a good and fun boy. You are very loving, caring, and fun to be around. You can put a smile on any face. Thank you for being our Ben... we love you!

Bennett's Day of Birthday Fun

Bennett's lunch request: Macoroni and Cheese

Brody and mom sang Happy Birthday to him and Ben blew out a candle

Bennett's "Something Fun to do" request: ice cream at Baskin Robbins... Pink Bubble Gum

Bennett's dinner request: A blue slushy... so we went to Chili's

Bennett's bed-time request: Sleep in a tent with Karson and Brody

(downstairs with blankets as a tent)

Bennett's 3rd Birthday Party... Hockey Birthday in Herriman

Hockey game with cousins and friends... Blackhawks vs. Bruins ("uniforms" designed and made by dad!)

Bennett's Hockey Game Cake (made by dad!)

Bennett turns 2!

It's hard to believe that our Benny turned two on April 24, 2008!

He is definitely not our baby anymore. He is stretching out, saying more words, and playing so well with Brody and Karson.

For his birthday we did a Cars theme. He loves the movie Cars and all the Cars cars. He can identify and say quite a few: "Mone" for Ramone, "al" for Sally, "ing" for King, "Doc", "Mack",and "May" for "Mater". However, he doesn't really say the word car, he only makes the car sound, "vroom". And he says "vroom" for anything and everything cars.

We celebrated his special day with family, Grandma Wilcken, and the Spencers (the Tuellers came up a day earlier to wish him a Happy Birthday!). Brad also had a big poster made with all the Cars characters, other car decorations, and Cars Bingo.We also had an obstable race through Radiator Springs. The kids had to back up through the "Cozy Cones" tow a bike like "Mater", jump through "Luigi's tires", fill up at Flo's V8 Station and then race like "Lightening McQueen" to the finish line.

We all had a fun time! Happy Birthday Bennett, we love you and are grateful you are a part of our family.