Chicken Farmers

We officially have one more title to add to our resume of life:

Chicken Farmers!!

Cody has been wanting chickens for years. He finally built a chicken coop so we made the trip to Geisler's and they hooked us up.

Mavis (after the vampire girl on Hotel Transylvania) and Goldilocks

Goldilocks is Gavin's chick

Mavis

How can anyone not love a cute, fluffy baby chick?

Mavis, Goldilocks and the 8 bears

Chloe and Goldilocks

Life of Fry

Mason sound asleep on the way back home from Jackson Hole. On a side note, it's a good thing his car seat has reflective strips on it so oncoming traffic can see him (so weird and random).

Mason's super sweet Sunbeam teacher (Primary Class at church) sent him a postcard while on vacation in Florida. She is the sweetest thing and spoils him so much.

Gavin loves Skylanders and Lego's so he was in heaven when G&G Blakely found Skylanders Legos. They even glow in the dark.

Gavin was going to wear these to school the other day but decided the prescription lenses made it to hard to see out of. 

Mason and Chloe had a dental check up. Last time we went 6 months ago I had to hold Chloe on my lap and Dr. Baker barely got the exam done. This time she sat like a big girl all by herself, Dr. Baker got the exam done and they were even able to do all of her cleaning. To make it even better she was completely cavity free! Mason however had a cavity : (

Mason is in the background on the left of the girl in the blue. He did so awesome and didn't need mommy at all.

We went to visit my niece and her new baby Paisley the other day. I was so excited to hold her, but Gavin got a hold of her first and pretty much hogged her the entire time we were there. He was so gentle and sweet with her. He was rocking her and talking to her so softly and also making sure everyone else was quiet so we didn't disturb her. He had her to sleep in no time.

The odometer reading on my van. We didn't know if we should drive around the block, leave it be or call a priest for an exorcism!

Mason eating as usual. My two little ones eat non-stop. This was Mason's third breakfast for the day and it wasn't even lunch time yet. He had a few pieces of french toast, then a 3 egg ham and cheese omelet and then I just started feeding him left over french bread from last nights dinner.

Found these in Gavin's coat pocket.

Playing dress up

Mason someday you will curse me for taking pictures like this ; )

Chloe's new favorite place while I am in the kitchen cooking, cleaning etc is sitting on the counter so she can see what's going on and her new favorite snack is an apple

Gavin's Birthday Interview

1- Who is your favorite person in the whole world?

MOM

 2- What is your favorite color?

GOLD

3-What is your favorite television show?

WHAT'S A TELEVISION SHOW? 

#3 Revised: What is your favorite movie?

MONSTERS UNIVERSITY

4- What is your favorite outfit?

SWIMMING SUIT

5-What sport do you like best?

BASKETBALL

6- What song do you love?

IMAGINE DRAGONS, RADIOACTIVE

7- What is your favorite cereal?

LUCKY CHARMS 

(not sure he has ever even had it, but it's his interview. I would've guessed Honey Bunches of Oats)

8- Who is you best friend?

LUKE

9- What do you want to be when you grow up?

PILOT

10-What is your favorite book?

POCKETFUL OF NONSENSE

11- What are you really good at?

BASKETBALL

12- Where do you wish you could go on vacation?

HIKING

 (totally expected Disneyland or something else besides hiking here. Guess we had better go hiking more)

13- What is your best memory?

PLAYING SKYLANDERS SWAPFORCE

14- What would you buy if you had $1000?

EVERY SKYLANDER I COULD GET

 (I'm beginning to see a trend here)

15- What vegetable do you hate the most?

BRUSSEL SPROUTS AND SPINACH 

 Love the Most? CARROTS AND RANCH

(who knew ranch was a vegetable?)

16- If you could have one wish, what would it be?

HAVING EVERY SINGLE SKYLANDER OFF OF SWAPFORCE

17- What is your favorite flavor of ice cream?

 VANILLA MIXED WITH CHOCOLATE

18- Who is your biggest hero?

ISAIAH (his cousin)

19- What do you like to do best with your friends?

PLAY RED LIGHT, GREEN LIGHT

20- What do you hope you'll get to do before your next birthday?

GO TO HOGLE ZOO

Stats:

Height: 4 ft 2 1/2 inches (3 1/2 inches taller than last year)

Weight: 55 lbs

Teeth Lost:  6

Shoe Size:13 1/2

Pant Size: 7

Shirt Size: 7

He is reading at a 3rd and 4th grade level and is doing 3rd grade math in class to keep him from getting bored. He is such a smarty pants! He's going to be smarter than us in a few years!!

Gavin's 7th Birthday

 Cody has been taking Gavin to different stores in town for the last couple of weeks. They go looking for other things but always end up in the bike section. Cody wanted to get Gavin a bike that he likes, but wanted it to be a surprise so he was being all sneaky about it. 

Then the day before Gavin's birthday Cody brought "the bike" home and I made sure Gavin was over at the neighbors playing so we could get it in the house. We hid it in our room, the kids rarely go in there....THEN....Cody sent Gavin to our room to get his notebook and guess what....after all the sneaking around Gavin saw the bike, the.day.before.his.birthday!!! 

Cody tried to cover it up and say it was our nephew Luke's, but the next morning when we really gave it to him he said, "I knew you guys were tricking me."  He was still pretty excited about it.

 We woke up to the boys playing in our Fill-the-room-with-birthday-balloons-tradition

 This kid is growing so fast we can't keep him in clothes that fit!

 Grandma Blakely singing Happy Birthday to him

 Getting things adjusted to fit him

 It was a cold morning that required coats and gloves

 Minecraft Cupcakes

 My 7 year old!

We went to Jackson Rec Center to go swimming with my family, Gavin was super excited it was on his birthday

 Gavin "teleporting" through the waterfall

 Masonater

 I took him on the big slide and the entire time I was carrying him up the stairs he was telling me over and over " You know I'm gonna hate this". I put him on my lap and we went down the slide and I'm pretty sure he was having fun and as soon as we got to the bottom he said, " See I told you I was gonna hate it". What a stinker!

 Chloe

 Grandma and Bailee

 Uncle Paul and Brigham

 Aunt Erin and Brigham

 Gavin

 My awesome family!!!

Mason, Cody, Gavin, me and Chloe

 Gavin already knows how to photo bomb!

 Bailee, Paul, Tayvri, Erin and Brigham

 Grandma and Chloe

(Grandpa was MIA until after we put the camera away.)

 How to contain your toddler while you get dressed!!

 Gavin has been asking for these ever since he saw Tangled. I found some on Amazon and I have been saving them for his birthday.

 Happy Kid!!

 We invited the Lewis's and Memmott's over to send them up with us. We had a box of 20, but it was so cold we only did about 5 or 6. Definitely a summer time activity!

Cody and Gavin sending up the last one for the night!

Happy Birthday Gavin!!

We love you so much and we are so blessed to have you in our lives.