Baking Dylan's Birthday Cake!

I let Dylan help make his birthday cake, he was a good helper and had a fun time.

He likes to brake the eggs, we only had to fish out the shells of one.

He did such a good job, he bugged me the whole day to let him eat one.

I had to frost it while he was taking a nap, and I forgot to take a picture. Then I had to hide it. He kept asking for it after he woke up.

This was the final product. My mother-in-law gave me a cookbook called the Cake Doctor and this was one of her recipes. I thought it turned out pretty well.

We hauled the cake out into the forest, we ate dinner with friends, and Dylan blow out his candles and we had cake and ice cream. Not many three year olds get to have a birthday party in the forest. We are so luck to live in a place where we can enjoy beautiful forest only a couple of minutes from our house.

Lost and Found!

Dylan found the camera, hip, hip, hurrah.

I stayed home from church yesterday because Dylan was sick, at one point he was jumping on the couch(ya, real sick huh) and I was in the kitchen. He said something,"Look mom opening presents." I looked over and he was looking at his birthday pictures on the camera. I was so excited, I was jumping up and down, and hugging him, and kissing him, I was so excited. Now I can show you all of the cute pics that I took last weekend.

Last Saturday Dylan found this pretty butterfly in the garden. The poor thing had a broken wing so it couldn't go very far.

Dylan was mesmerized by it, he played with and held it and talked to for a really long time.

So sad!

I lost my camera! I am so frustrated with myself because I can't remember what I did with it. I have turned my house upside down looking for it. I am pretty sure it got thrown out with the trash from Dylan's birthday. I am so sad because it had the cutest pics of the boys from last weekend. I will just tell you about them since you can't see them. We took the boys to the fair, we saw the animals and then Dylan decided he would like to try some rides, we all rode the ferriswheel, Dylan then wanted to ride a little train. I didn't think he would ride by himself so I went with him. There was a little bumble bee ride next to the train and he wanted to ride that one also. No one could ride with him on it so I strapped him in and I told him he was going to have to ride by himself, he said "OK!" If any of you know Dylan and how he is about being left alone and he didn't kick and scream, I was shocked. I got the cutest pictures of him riding the bee, he was so happy and proud of himself for doing it alone.
I took pics of Dylan helping me make his birthday cake.
And finally, Dylan's birthday was on Sunday. I am so sad all of his 3rd birthday pics are gone.
No use crying over spilled milk.
Today we spent the morning at the Route 66 Days. It was basically just an antique car show, some people had craft booths and food booths set up. Marty loves old cars so we walked around for a couple of hours and looked at cars. The boys did so good, it was kind of our first Saturday outing in Flagstaff. It was a little warm out, we took the stroller and the boys just hung out and were happy. I was so glad, it was a happy, delightful day. I think we will do it again.

Happy 3rd Brithday Dylan!

Happy Birthday Dylan, we are so glad you are part of our family, we love you very much, you bring so much joy to everyday. I love to see the world through your eyes. You have always been such a sweet, layed back kid, for the most part. You are always so quick to give a compliment, I hope you will always be like that. We hope that you have a very happy day.

Look how far Dylan has come...

potty trained

loves the out doors

loves his trucks

loves to sing songs(I am a child of God, Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, ( Dylan says "sunbink" cute huh), Old MacDonald had a farm, Wheels on the bus, Itsy Bitsy spider.

loves to dance

loves tv

knows and recognizes all the letters of the alphebet

counts to 20 almost, he skips 14, and 15

loves to make his brother laugh

Dylans stats

weight: 36lbs 90%

height: 41 inches 90%

We love you buddy, life wouldn't be the same without you.

Every party has a pooper!

All summer I have wanted to go either camping or out in the forest, build a fire and roast marshmellows. Finally for Dylan's birthday we did it. The original plan was to go camping with the Ross' but Tyrel had to work late so that one didn't happen. We decided to go out and build a fire, make dinner and have smores. Samantha, Cooper and Trip met us out there. Cooper is Dylan's little buddy, they play together so well. They had so much fun out in the dirt and rocks. I thought there would be enough stuff in the forest to keep them occupied, but they were like little tornados, (mostly Dylan) once I broke out the paper plates, plastic cups and utensils. We went through almost a whole package of plates, I should have taken a pictures, there were plates and cups every. I am not complaining, I think it was funny. It happened so fast that I didn't even realize what had happened until we went to clean up before we left.

We had been out there only a couple of hours, the boys had so much fun, we all ate dinner and ate smores. Poor little Trip was sleeping in his car seat and Tyson thought it was a good idea to put rocks all over him. Then Cooper took his turn, and I'm sure Dylan had his chance of getting a few on him also. He just slept through it all. After dinner we were sitting around visiting and the boys were playing, Dylan was digging a hole and he says " I'm tired." He pooped out first at his own party, so we packed up and went home.

I wish we had done this sooner, it was so much fun.

Those tangs saw alot of dirt.

"See Tyson, this thing right here is to fill up with dirt, you have to make sure it is all the way full though."
See we can rough house even in the dirt.
These boys are so fast, I couldn't ever get a picture with them both looking, so here they are not looking.
Samantha teaching Dylan how to roast a hotdog over the fire.
We love smores!

We weren't out there an hour and Tyson got totally drenched, that kid loves water.
What a happy kid, he could live outside.
The boys had fun beating on that ice chest with that fork.
That's hot!
Tyson got kind of tired too.

What goes around, comes around.

Poor Tyson has "hand, foot, and mouth", it has been going around and finally stopped at our house.

We went on a family quad ride and Tyson didn't feel good and all of his pictures looked like this, poor baby.

Who says boys don't like flowers?
"Look mom a bird"

Dylan really likes corn on the cob, we got out in the trees and there were all of these tall flower stalks(you can see the one behind him), I don't know what they are called, but when he saw them he said "Look mom carn." He calls it carn.

We love dirt!

Marty had a project in the back yard on Saturday, he dug a 200ft trench across the yard and Dylan loved it.

He was so tired from climbing in and out of the trench all day.

Playing in the dirt.

Thinking about eating the dirt (looks like he has already had some).

Dylan can't have all the fun. Tyson just layed right down and started pounding away.

So happy!