Jeff turns 40 and more

Mother's Day and Jeff's 40th birthday landed on the same day! So, we decided to basically cancel both and make it easy on each other. I did still plan a date night going out for dinner at Alloy and we decided to do something for Jeff in the future. It's such a big birthday, but we had Disneyworld coming up in 1 week and we were both drained! Dinner was delicious, and they even brought out a yummy dessert with a candle for Jeff. 

Boston fell asleep on Jeff on his birthday and it was the cutest thing! He never does that anymore. 

The Manville's came into town and gave us the exciting news that they are moving back to Calgary soon and looking to buy a house! They ended up buying one right next to Tamara and Lee's house in Sundance. It'll be fun having them back. They also decided to surprise Jeff for his birthday and take him out to the Flames game. It was hard to keep the secret, but I managed to get a babysitter and set it up without telling him. After he came home from work they showed up at the door wearing flames jerseys and Jeff answered it, surprised that they were even in town! It was a lot of fun, and the game was great. It was the playoffs and they won again! The excitement of all the fans made it even better. 

 I got the cutest notes from the kids for Mother's Day! It's so fun when they get old enough to make these at school. 

Lena had her babies and we went for a visit! I brought her some dinner and all the kids and me got to hold them. They were so cute, but I'm not jealous of all the work they are going to create! I could barely hold them both. She named them Jasper and Henry. 

The weather got nicer some days, but sure didn't stay warm for long. We played outside when we could. Jeff and I started preparing for the big Disneyworld trip with the kids! There was a lot of prep work, but we were so excited. Also, Boston took off walking and grew up in a day. Deacon always find joy in the little things, like some flowers that started to bloom at his school. 

Disneyworld here we come!!!!!

Easter weekend

 We filled up our Easter long weekend with lots of activities and had a lot of fun! On Friday, we went to see the Easter bunny at the Bass Pro shop at Cross Iron Mills. The kids loved it and we got such a good picture! Then we explored the shop and we all loved the animals, waterfalls, and fish. We walked through the mall to the food court and grabbed some lunch. Then we headed over to the Sky Castle play center in the New Horizon Mall and the kids had a blast there!

On Saturday we went to the Tyrell Museum with Scott and Kellie's family, and Don. It was pretty fun, and then we came back and hung out at the Ady's house for a while. 

On Sunday we dyed some eggs on our own in the morning. We made pirates and mermaids, and used our Egg-mazing spinner too! After church we headed over to the Ady's for dinner and an Egg hunt. The eggs were in the backyard and out in the forest area. It was so fun to see everyone find the eggs, and Leo was full of excitement especially! Opening them up is always fun to find money, toys and chocolate inside. Grandma bought all the cousins matching outfits and new toys and they had the best time playing together!

We had an awesome Easter celebrating Christ. The kids are loving church these days. Leo is doing amazing in Sunbeams and just loves it, and the others are enjoying their classes too! I am a leader in nursery right now, which means Boston comes in too, even though he's not technically 18 months old yet. It can be tiring, but it's really not too bad of a calling. 

Boston's 1st Birthday Party

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, ONEderful Is What You Are!

Boston turned 1 on April.1st and I couldn't even believe it! We threw a party for him with a simple twinkle twinkle little star theme and Bentley helped me tape stars all over the walls. I had fun making the balloon arch as well. We had a great day with family eating pulled pork and cake, watching Boston "open" presents, and then going glow-in-the-dark bowling together. We had family from both sides come for dinner, but only the Nielson side could come for bowling. I made a fun cupcake cake and Boston was unsure of it at first, but then decided he liked it. It was a really nice excuse to all get together!

Boston is the sweetest little guy with so much personality these days! He has this adorable, contagious smile he loves to flash at you that I can never get a picture of, but it's the cutest thing. He's been standing on his own for a while now (and loves to show off that he can get up on his own in the middle of the floor), but just barely took his first steps on his birthday! How cool that his birthday was the very day he decided to walk. He just barely stopped nursing completely and really loves cows milk. He also loves most any food! His babbles are the cutest and we all really love to make him giggle. Happy birthday Boss Baby, our forever baby!

He also got his first haircut shortly after his birthday and did so good! He didn't love it but he held still and never cried...the hairdresser was quite impressed.