Ahoy Mateys! (Kolton's 4th Birthday Party)

Kolton's 4th birthday party was on Saturday, January 7th.  They Foys were super nice and volunteered to let us have the party at their house.  We decided to do a pirate theme.  Kolton was SO excited! We passed the invitations out the Monday before.  I let Kolton take each one of them up to each person's door all by himself (which he thought was pretty cool). The invitations were made of white cardstock soaked in coke and food coloring to get it to look kind of old.  I then burned all the edges and wrote on them. They said: 

Well Shiver Me Timbers!

Kolton is 4!

SO, Ahoy Maties! Lets follow the Captain and find some FUN!

Ship sails on Saturday, Jan. 7th, 12:30-2:00 from Foy Island

I made cupcakes and put paper sails on them and pirate flags.   

 We also hung red and black balloons from the ceiling (well, Brady and Sterling did). 

 I made a treasure map to take us on a treasure hunt to the treasure. 

 The only other decorations we had was this flag pendant thing I made.  We put it on the fireplace and had the gifts placed below it. 

 Here's the treasure (complete with an alligator head)!

 I also asked Brittney to make a bean bag toss game with a picture of a pirate ship.  She did awesome!

 We started the party off with the treasure hunt.  We started off at "Couch Pass"...

 We then headed to "Coconut Trees" (the refrigerator)...

 Next was "Kid Bath" (I was thinking to take them to the kids' bath and so I wrote that on accident before coming up with a name...haha)...

 Then we went to "Nap Forrest" (Kade's bed), then "Toy Quicksand" (toy room)...

 After that we went to the "Mail Cave" (mail box) and then to "Laundry Waterfall" where the treasure was! The kids were so excited all along the way! They'd run back to their parents after each stop and show them what they got and then come running back to see where we were going to go next! They got bandanas, eye patches, pirate hats, tattoos and mustaches, telescopes, necklaces, money, and candy.  

 Here's a picture of all the kids saying "Aaargh!"  (From left to right: Tayte Widdison, Emery, Ethan Lancaster, Emma Endsley, Pierson, Kashton Gulbransen, Kade, Kolton, London, and Beckett Bailey--not pictured: Brooklyn Smith, who came later.)

 After the treasure hunt the kids "walked the plank" and then had to pop cannon balls and walk back across the plank. 

 They could not get the balloons to pop so Brady helped them a little bit! I'm not sure if they even really noticed. :)

 

We then played the bean bag game and they each got to go twice.  Kids love to play bean bag toss games! 

 After that game we opened presents.  Kolton was so excited to see what he got! He was so good at saying thank you to everyone and loved all his presents!

 We then sung Happy Birthday to him and he blew out his candles and then each kid got a cupcake.   

 He had such a blast at his party and was so happy that all his friends were able to come celebrate with him! Brady and I had fun, too, watching the kids enjoy themselves playing together! (Even though I sent one of the little boys to the ER because I gave the kids peanut butter balls and he is allergic to peanut butter...I felt awful! I seriously cried...I couldn't believe it! I knew he had a peanut allergy and so I bought what I thought were chocolate balls and suckers but in fact they were chocolate covered peanut butter balls--it says it in huge letters on the tag and somehow I missed it! He's fine now, thank goodness!)

 One of the presents he got was a robe and it cracks me up when he wears it.  So cute!

I really liked having his party on the 7th instead of the Saturday right after his birthday.  It made it much more enjoyable and not stressful trying to plan it right after Christmas.  I also enjoyed the fact that Brittney took pictures for me so I could concentrate on the party and Kolton and not worry about pictures.  It was a great afternoon celebrating the birthday of one of the most amazing little boys there is!

Enjoying the Nice Weather

On Monday, the 2nd, we went over to the Brammers to say good bye to Jaycee and Adam and Landon who were leaving the next day to go back to Utah.  Kolton has recently realized that Grandpa is willing to rub him and so he sat down right next to him and asked him to rub his back and then went and got the head thing for him to use.  :) 

 Jaycee and Madison had bought some masks so I joined in and we all did our faces.  I wish I did these more often--my face feels so good afterwards! I used to do them at least once a week, usually twice, whenever I was young and single but just don't take the time anymore to do them.  It was fun! Madison's totally smelled like chocolate!

 Kolton asked for a snack, so we made popcorn and Adam taught him how to catch them in his mouth.  I don't know how many actually made it in and how many fell on the floor but they had a good time!

It was great to have them in town and be able to see them and Landon.  

On Wednesday I took Kolton to a gymnastics class in Norman.  Bart Conner will let you sit in on a lesson to try it out so I had signed him up for one on Wednesday morning because the lady said that there were boys in that class. Turns out he was the only boy but he didn't care.  He still had fun.  It didn't seem worth it to me to put him in it (even though he loved it) so we're just going to have to wait until soccer starts.  :) We went that morning to the party store as well to get him some things for his party. We bought him a special hat for his party so he could be the captain! :)

 (The stamps on his hands are from gymnastics.  At the end they put a stamp on each hand and on each leg.)

 It was so nice outside that whole week! We played outside a ton! Kolton got a football in the mail one day (one time when Brady bought oil to change the oil in his car there was a rebate for a free football so we sent it in and it came for Kolton!).  He thought it was so cool that he got his own big football in the mail.  He even said to us "The mailman is so nice to bring me a football!"

 One of his favorite things to do is have someone hold the ball for him to kick it.  We're hoping he'll be the kicker for OU one day and then finally they'll have a good kicker! ;)

 We went to the Foys on Friday morning for me to watch her kids while she went to fix her tire and run a couple of errands.  I worked on some things for Kolton's birthday party (that was the next day) and watched the kids play.  We went outside for about 45 minutes and they rode bikes, scooters, played basketball and soccer, and tennis. 

 After Brittney got home Grandpa Brammer called and asked what we were doing.  Him and Grandma were going to the park and wanted Kolton to come with them since it was so nice outside.  We all ended up going with them to Little River park.  Kolton rode his bike, Kade rode his scooter, and Emery rode in the push car around the park after we stopped and played some. 

We've tried really hard to take advantage of these warm days in January! Its been nice to be able to let Kolton go out and run around and enjoy the fresh air!

New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve we went over to the Foy's house.  We ate lots of yummy food! We had meatball sandwiches, weenies, queso and chips, white chocolate dipped oreos, oreo cake...and I swear there was other food but I can't remember! The missionaries came and ate dinner with us and then we watched the Thunder game.  We love watching the Thunder! They are so amazing! We also had the kids play kinect.  The Foys got a new kinect game and so they played that.  It is the new sports one so it has football and baseball and stuff on it.  Its so funny to watch them play! :) 

 We went home at like 10 or 11 that night because we are old and lame and put Kolton to bed and then stayed up until midnight just because.  It was fun! 

This picture makes me laugh.  This was actually on New Years Day before church (we switched to 1:00 for the new year).  I love how Kolton has all his tool stuff on with no pants.  Haha. 

We went to church and then went to the Brammers to have dinner with the family to celebrate Maddi turning 16.  We had a good time that evening and sat in the office and sang songs while Jaycee played the piano.  

Our New Year's resolution is to eat healthier.  We've been doing good so far and both of us have lost weight so that's exciting! ;)

Kolton's 4th Birthday

Our sweet little boy turned 4 on the 29th of December.  We tried hard to make it super special for him! We are so proud of who he is and what a special, sweet boy he is! He means the world to Brady and I and so we were really excited to celebrate his special day! He woke up to special signs throughout the house.  When he walked out of his room he wanted to take a picture with one.  :)

I then let him take a bubble bath.  We are so busy lately that he usually just gets in the bath, washes, and gets out but on his birthday i filled it with bubbles and let him play as long as he wanted.  He had fun making himself Santa.

 When he got out of the bath he said he wanted to take a picture of himself in his towel because he has a picture when he's a baby in his towel--that way he could see how much he's grown.  ;) (We have a picture up in the kitchen of him when he's about 3 months old in his towel after a bath.)

 After we got dressed we had cinnamon rolls for breakfast and he played with his trains. 

 We were planning on going to Andy Alligators that morning but it doesn't open until 11:00 so I asked him what he wanted to do and he said he wanted to play soccer.  So, we headed out to the front and played some soccer.  We took turns shooting and "being the blocker." His rule was if you got blocked or made it--it didn't matter--your turn was up and you had to "be the blocker."

 He's a dancing goalie! ;)

 We played for a while and then headed out for Andy Alligators.  Before we went there, though, he wanted to stop by daddy's work and say hi to him and ask him for some stickers. 

 As we were driving from Brady's work to Andy Alligators, Grandma and Grandpa Moffett called and talked to him and told him happy birthday.  He's so funny to listen to on the phone.  Its cute. 

 First thing we did was hit up the putt-putt coarse.  Kolton was pretty excited that it was warm enough for him to go golfing! He loves it!

 

I love how his little tongue sticks out when he's concentrating on doing something.  :)

 After we were done golfing, he wanted to go bowling. 

 Here he is pretty stoked he just got a spare! ;) He's so funny!

 These next two pictures make me laugh...you push the button to make the lizard's tongue go out and hit the bugs as they go by.  He would stick his tongue out as he'd push the button to "help the lizard" stick his out.  Haha. 

 We played lots of basketball (like 4 or 5 games worth) and skeeball, and some other random games.  He earned like 200 tickets and decided to get a bouncy ball.  :) While we were in Andy Alligators, Grandma and Grandpa Brammer called to talk to Kolton but it was too loud, so they called back after we left and sang Happy Birthday to him. 

After Andy Alligators we went to the store to get 4 balloons for him.  He LOVES balloons! After we got those we went and got Brady and went to McDonalds (per Kolton's request) for his birthday lunch. 

 After lunch we went to the park because it was super nice outside and he's been begging to go to the park for a long time.  He was super excited!

 I pushed him on the swings, watched him climb all over the jungle gym, go down the slides super fast and run around like crazy!

 He was SUPER proud of himself that he could climb up this all by himself.  Usually Brady or I have to tell him where to put his feet as he goes up but on his birthday he was finally able to do it by himself.  He got to the top and turned around and looked at me and said "I did it all by myself because I'm 4 now!"

 After the park we went and picked Brady up from work and headed home for him to open presents. He was SO excited!   Before we opened presents, Jeff and Vanessa and their family called to talk to Kolton too!

One of the presents he got was a dinosaur, named Spike.  He thought it was so cool that it could move on its own.  He loved all his presents! He also got Cars 2 and How to Train Your Dragon DVD.  When he called my parents to thank him for their present he told them that he also got movies and that he never had to take them back--that he could keep them for forever! He's so used to getting Redbox movies and having to take them back that he thought it was pretty cool he could keep them. 

 Him and Brady had a lot of fun scaring Missie with it.  They cornered her in the kitchen and wouldn't let her move.  They thought it was pretty funny!

 After presents we headed to Teds for dinner (Kolton's pick). He loves Teds and its cheese sauce! :) Any time I go somewhere in the evening Brady will usually take Kolton somewhere and Kolton always picks Teds.  He loves it! He even got sung to while we were there.  When the waiter came to get our drink orders Kolton told him he was 4.  The waiter kind of looked at him like "cool..." so I told him it was his birthday so he'd understand why he was so excited about the fact that he was 4.  :) As we were eating our sopapillas they came and put the big sombrero on him and sung happy birthday.  He was HILARIOUS! He just smiled the whole time and looked right at Brady the entire time! He wouldn't look away.  It was so cute! I just laughed the whole time! It was awesome! 

We then came home and the Foys came over to sing happy birthday to him and give him a present and eat his rice krispie treat cake. 

 Before we could do that, though, he had to show them his cool new dinosaur.  :)

 

We then sung happy birthday to him and he blew out his candles.  He loves to have Happy Birthday sung to him.  ;)

 Kade and Kolton are so goofy sometimes! :)

He had a good birthday! He's 43 1/2" tall (over 100 percentile) and weighs 40.2 lbs (75th percentile). He's super proud of the hairs he is getting on his legs and loves to see them in the light.  :) He loves to sleep with his Curious George stuffed animal.  

His favorite thing to drink is juice (usually apple).  

His favorite snack is a fruit snack.  

His favorite restaurant is Teds.  

His favorite food is spaghetti.  

His favorite color is red or blue--depending on the day.  

His favorite movie is Cars 2.  

His favorite show is Kung Fu Panda.  

His favorite thing to do with Brady is "go to Teds and eat and play."

His favorite thing to do with me is "play."  

His favorite sport is SOCCER!

His favorite primary song is "Follow the Prophet."

His favorite cereal is Lucky Charms.

We love you Kolton! Happy Birthday big guy!