Kayden's Birthday 2011 - #4

I really thought I had dropped off the blogging band wagon, but I am going to try to do better because it also encourages me to take pictures...and I will tell you...the last year has gone pretty picture less except the ones I take on my phone.

Any way, to catch up on Kayden's birthday 2011...My little boy turned 4.  My little boy who is growing in to such a strong, opinionated, sports loving, energetic, happy, passion for learning, smart little boy.  He is a great little guy who wants to please everyone and make everyone laugh.  As Kayden's cousin, Brody, would say, "Kayden is a good bey!"

Kayden didn't want a cake for his birthday.  He wanted to have cake pops.  The day before his party I spent all day looking for cake pop pan only to find out that you don't need a cake pop pan to make them.  I stayed up to all hours of the night making cake pops so that when I woke up in the morning I could dip them.  I let Kayden help me with dipping them and he had a blast doing that.

I was able to get the week off of Kayden's birthday so I was able to spend a lot of quality time with him.  Kayden loved every minute that I was able to spend with him...and I loved it to.  His birthday was on a Wednesday so he didn't have school that day.  He wanted me to take him in to my work and show him where I worked.  I did and he got all the attention from the ladies at work and he loved every minute of it.

That night we let him pick where he wanted to go to eat and he picked Red Robin.  He loves that place.  So we took him there and they sang happy birthday to him.  After Red Robin we went to Grandma Gayle's house and had the cake pops and ice cream.  His cousins were there and they had a blast.  Kayden was so fun to watch open his gifts.

This is the part where I overload my blog with pictures of my little birthday boy...

Ok...there are a lot of silly pictures, but aren't they so cute...

Kayden, Landon and Brookie...when Brookie had her front teeth.

Let's add Brody

Brooke enjoying the Ice Cream

Where did Landon go????

I don't know what Brooke is doing, but she is pretty funny....

Looks like Landon is up to something...

These 3 stooges love the camera

I was trying to get them to do Hear, Speak and See No Evil...

They were almost all serious...my child is the one throwing that off...

I don't think Kayden wanted Brooke to have the attention...

Brookie and Camilla

Captain America toy...I think he got this from Landon

Opening more presents

Excited about his baseball glove

Riding his new scooter....

One Happy Birthday boy...

Kayden's First Talk in Primary

Kayden gave his first talk in primary...It was on prayer and he did such a good job. The whole room was silent while he gave it. He did such a good job.

Here is his first talk:

There is a very important person that I talk to everyday. This person is someone that I love and respect. I may not be able to see him, but I know he listens and loves me very much. He is our Heavenly Father and we speak to him by praying.

When I pray to him I make sure that I am not distracted. I fold my arms, close my eyes and bow my head. This shows Heavenly Father that I love him. I show my respect to Heavenly Father by using words like thee, thou, thy and thine. This also shows Heavenly Father the reverence I have for him.

My mom told me a poem she learned when she was a little younger. It goes like this:

Thee, Thou, Thy and Thine

Are special words that say

I love my Heavenly Father

And respect him when I pray.

I am thankful I can pray to Heavenly Father and he hears and answers prayers.

Kayden Starts Preschool

I was trying to be so strong, but I will admit...as soon as I walked out of the room from dropping Kayden off tears started rolling down my face. Kayden loves preschool. He looks forward to it everyday. He goes Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. He has changed in so many ways. He loves learning, reading, singing and playing on the play ground. The teacher, Miss Michelle, told me that Kayden started crying that first day as well. So sad. Since then, Kayden has told his teacher multiple times that she is pretty. He has tackled a few of the kids and we had to end that.

We are so happy that he was able to get in to this program. I never knew how good it would be for him.
Silly Kayden...
Cool Kayden
Showing off his cool back pack.

And My handsome little man!

The Workman Boys Chicago Trip

The Workman Boys (Ryan~Tyler~Mark) have been talking about doing a boys trip for as long as I can remember (it is mostly Tyler that gets it started and Ryan goes along with it and Mark says he doesn't want to go until the last minute!)SOOOO...they had a blast. They flew out of PHX on Friday afternoon. Got to Chicago around midnight (they missed Taylor, Ryan's cousin, opening up his mission call). Got a rental car and drove to their hotel.

They woke up Saturday morning and didn't stop moving. They did some sight seeing and then got in the car and drove 3 or so hours to Champaign, IL to watch ASU play against University of Illinois. Unfortunately, ASU lost but it was still a good game to attend with a lot of ASU fans. They drove the 3 hours to their hotel and were annoyed all night by prank callers on their cell phones. They finally turned their phones off.

The next day, they went to a Cubs game and did more sight seeing. I loved getting the pictures randomly throughout the day. They came home on Monday morning...bright and early and Kayden never wants his dad to go back to Chicago! :) Here are some pictures from there trip...I can't commentate them though because I really can't remember what was going on in the pictures.

Utah 2010...

We always make a trip to Brigham City when we go to Utah. I thought my mothers head stone looked really good...Besides that fact that some lime-a-way needed to be taken to it. The flowers that someone put on here were beautiful.
And the progress on the Brigham City Temple was absolutely stunning....BEAUTIFUL
There was a cute old man that was there taking pictures and he had a little step stool and he was kind enough to let me use it to get a decent picture over the fence that is around the temple grounds.
I heard that there is going to be a parking garage under the temple and that is what you are seeing here.
Kayden and Oakley...Annette and Neal's dog. I want a dog that is as well behaved as this dog is...she is such a good dog.
We went to Hogle Zoo and got the adventure pack and that included the Carousel...Ryan loved it. HAHA
Kayden for sure did...look at that smile. :)
Little Keith (although I still call him baby Keith) was so cute trying to figure out how to do this. It took a couple of tries for him to do this.
This is Alice showing him how to do it. lol
The fun group of Hogle Zoo goers...we tried to get Karl and Kiersten to go, but they had something come up. I love Zander's face and what Kayden is doing...I think little Gage is distracted by Kayden's little move.
All the walking kids decided that they needed to put their heads in the dinosaurs mouth. This is Zander...
And Kayden...
And Little Keith...he actually ws the one who started it all.
And little Rosie...oh my goodness...she has to be one of the most photogenic little things. I didn't post all the pictures but every picture I took she pulled a different move.
Isn't she the cutest????
And then there is Gage. He kept doing this when we were eating lunch. He is so adorable.
He was all excited about a dinosaur that was at the zoo...I actually think he was growling back at it.
I think Alice was just as excited as Keith was to be at the zoo. :)
I thought this picture of Annette and Gage was so cute.
Look at those cheeks.
All those boys being perfectly content watching the animals.
On the train that goes around the zoo.
Gage...the little 'Firecracker'.