Happy 6th Birthday Aaron!!!

Today my sweet Aaron turns 6!!! It is hard to believe that he has gotten so big!! Some things that I love about Aaron are:

*that he is such a sweet and loving boy

*he loves the scriptures

*he likes to help me in whatever way he can

*he loves coins and money

*he loves to swim and play

*his strong will and personality

*his patience

*his happy countenance

*his sparkly smile!!

I love you Aaron!! I hope you have the best day ever!! You are a special boy. I am so thankful that you are in my family! Daddy and I love you very much!!

New Beds

On Tuesday when I took Weston to eleven year old scouts, I ran over to Sams to get a few things that I needed. While I was there, I noticed that they had put these beautiful bunk bed on sale. (Like a really good sale because there were just a few left.) We had been looking for a bed for Aaron because Evan had grown out of his crib (ie: he climbs out of it and doesn't stay put!) and we wanted to pass Aaron's race car toddler bed on over to Evan. When I saw these bunk beds on sale at such a good price, Barth and I decided that we would go ahead and get them. After work on Thursday night, I headed over to find that only the display was left and it was even cheaper than it was on Tuesday!! SCORE!!!!! I paid for it and got mattresses but they needed to take them apart. I went back last night to pick up the beds and then today I worked putting them together. Since we got the 2 twin beds and had mattresses for them, we decided to skip the toddler bed all together and just put both boys in the big beds. :) Evan and Amber helped me all afternoon. I took down the crib and toddler bed and then assembled the beds. Hours later, they were done and lovely!!! I will have to take another picture tomorrow when the sun is not steaming in the window and making the light all funny!

Aaron loved his new bed!!!

And Evan did too!!! :)

Music to my ears

My agenda lately has included 101 things to do. Today, I got one of my favorite things done- getting an instrument for Weston!!!! :) Initially he had thought that he wanted to play the oboe, but after trying things out, he decided that he liked the french horn best. Today we went to the music store to see about renting a horn since that is what the director recommended. While we were there, we found out that a french horn had just been traded in. The price to buy the used horn would be almost equal to what it would cost to rent all year long. (both the french horn and the oboe are in the priciest categories!) Since, if we purchased it, we would still have it after 10 months, it was an easy decision to just buy the used horn. So we did.
Weston has been having fun this afternoon trying it out! And so has everyone else. He actually makes quite a nice sound already and doesn't even puff out his cheeks. I am looking forward to the fall days of hearing lovely french horn music filling the air!! :)

Getting Weston's horn makes me excited for the fall when he will actually learn to play it.....but I am still enjoying the summer and am in no way wanting it to end anytime soon!!! :) I am sure that over the next few days he will be looking over the band book and trying to figure out how to play before band starts in the fall!

Home at last!

There are a ton of posts that I need to post from our trip. We got home around 7 on Saturday night. Last night our AC starting having trouble. Today we are busy trying to get things working again. And unpacking. And the kiddos started swimming lessons. And we are still getting readjusted to the time zone. I promise that I will post some in a day or two when we are back up and running like normal!!! :D