Happy Birthday!

TJ celebrated his 3rd birthday on the 17th of this month. My friend Amanda's little girl and Amanda's husband have the same birthday and were having a party at Crystal Hot Springs so we spent a good part of the day swimming in the hot pools. The kids all had a blast, except when they got the water in their mouths. It was a lot of fun!

Just a few things I love about my boy...

• He is so incredibly sweet!!! He is always giving me big hugs and kisses and telling me how much he loves me. I LOVE it!! He has recently been very cute with little Rees too. He gives her loves and kisses and she is so cute to return the love.
• TJ is hilarious. He is always making me laugh at the funny things he comes up with.
• He is such a good boy. He definitely has his moments but for the most part he is a good listener and does what I ask him to do.
• He is so funny about his sleep, he got his love for sleeping from his mom! He still takes naps almost every day and puts HIMSELF to bed sometimes! The other night we started a movie a little late and cuddled up on the couch with the kids to watch. After a little while TJ decided he was tired and told us he wanted to go to bed. He got up and walked in his room and crawled into bed all on his own. How many kids do that?!?
• I know I am totally biased, but he is the cutest little boy I have ever seen! It's hard to get mad at a face so incredibly cute and innocent.

All in all, I absloutely LOVE this boy!!! Happy birthday TJTJ and his birthday pancakes

Blowing out candles

All TJ would say he wanted for his birthday was a spiderman cake. I didn't want to go buy a spiderman cake so Jared made a web with frosting and we stuck one of TJ's spiderman toys on top of the cake. He couldn't have been more excited! It was adorable.

More candles...

The birthday boy!

I told him to smile big and this is what I got.

Emma and TJ enjoying their spiderman cake

Sledding

Jared, me, and my dad took TJ and Emma sledding today while my mom stayed home with Rees. (Thanks mom!) It was a little cold and it took some time to find a good hill on one of the dry farms here in Idaho but it was a lot of fun! Getting ready to go. Don't they look excited?

The Fam (except Rees)

The kids got tired and cold and were really ready to go home and get warm!

Cute TJ and his milk mustache from breakfast. What a slacker mom!

Emma Lou. You can see Jared in the background, one of our tubes blew away (it was pretty windy) and he had to run and get it. Emma thought it was funny and decided to let hers go so I ran after it and tripped in the snow, dropping my tube. So Jared ended up carrying three runaway tubes back. It was pretty funny.

Jared and the kids

Grandpa and Emma. Cute!

TJ loves his grandpa!

This video is of my dad going down the hill. There was a road at the bottom of the hill that we had to stop before and it was really hard when we were on the big tube. So, Jared figured out a good way to help the person on the tube stop. I was going down and was getting close to the road and couldn't jump off or reach the ground to stop so Jared ran over to me and dove in front of the tube sending me flying. It was pretty funny. We didn't get a video of me but of my dad who went right after me.