Rainbows, Gardens, and a Birthday!

I LOVE to see rainbows. Not only are they beautiful, but it means I have a little more time here on this earth. I don’t know much about the prophesy on rainbows and then end of the world and all that, but for now, I will hold to what I do know…that I love to see rainbows.

I took treats to Kayler's class on Monday for his Birthday. He was so cute...even though a little confused why I was at his school bringing treats and why he got to wear a crown!:





Monday we planted our garden. The weather has been so up and down, and the wind is driving me bonkers. We finally got it in, and let’s hope it works. Of course, we got it all planted, and then Kayler ran across it and messed it up, but oh well, we shall see in a few weeks how crazy it comes up . The kids had fun, and that is all that matters:





Yesterday my baby boy turned 4! This was the very first year that when you asked him how old he was he replied correctly, “four.” I asked him for weeks what he wanted for his birthday, and all he would say was “a cake.” Simple enough right? Well a friend of mine told me of a lady in Tabiona who makes the most awesome cakes. I called her and luckily enough her husband was working in Vernal this week, and so he brought it to me. Kayler wanted a Yo Gabba Gabba cake-it is his favorite cartoon. We settled on Plex from that show, and I think the cake turned out AWESOME….and better yet, it tasted absolutely delicious. I don’t know if I can ever go back to a store bought cake again. The real kicker is she only charged $15, and it was huge!:



We went to McDonald’s for lunch with Karlee and her kids Tate and Hallee. He had fun….stole a guys chicken nuggets….a ladies water….climbed completely in the basketball toy…..it was quite an adventure, but it was good to get out.:




G.J. and I and my parents bought Kayler a little playhouse. Since it was so windy yesterday, I had to put it together in the garage. He was so surprised and cute with it.:



Hallie made him a banner and hung it in the kitchen. Gavin was so cute and took a birthday sack in his room and put some of his toys in it to give to Kayler. I think the older 2 were more excited for his birthday than he was!:



We had the usual Grandparent/cousin birthday at our house. I will be honest, it was a very frustrating party. Kayler was beyond overwhelmed with the people, noise, presents, and chaos of it all. By the time we got to his cake, he laid on the floor and cried as you will see in the last picture-you only see his little legs. I had to blow out his candles for him. I just sat there with tears in my eyes thinking how sad it was that he couldn’t even enjoy his own birthday.:









I should probably explain the cucumber and tomato....yes they are real...yes he is obsessed....and he calls them bob and larry, they are members of our family ;) The picture of him blowing up a balloon is priceless. He has been doing that all day...and his little face gets SO red!

The night ended with G.J. leaving for Elder’s quorum stuff with me alone trying to clean up the party, do baths, homework, and etc.etc.etc.etc. I was VERY glad to wake up to a beautiful sunshiny day! I worked outside, did my Visiting Teaching, errands, took Kayler to his 4 year well child check up, more errands, got invited to play Bunco-which I hadn’t done in almost 3 years (and I won!-a cute apron), and now I am finally blogging. I hate getting behind because I feel like I am trying to cram all the events in without boring myself or my blog readers.

Tomorrow is my day to cook for my dinner group. Then I am going to make some mother’s day gifts that I signed up to do forever ago…I will post pictures. After that is Stake Primary meeting. Lucky me,I was asked to give a talk on how having a special needs child in Primary has affected me and give tips to other primary presidencies on how to help with special needs children in their wards. Any other week…I probably would have been o.k. with it. I am still kind of sad about the lack-luster sad birthday he had this week, so my emotions will probably get the best of me, but I pray that I can do a good job.

Other than that-my brother is coming out this weekend for mother’s day. I hope the weather is warm so we can spend lots of time outside. The sunshine is therapy for my soul…I love it. I hope all of you are doing well!!!