Home Sweet Homecoming!!!

Friday was our school's homecoming! This is probably the biggest week of the year for me. My sweet cheerleaders worked tirelessly to put on a wonderful pep rally and then cheered on our football team to victory!! Our theme was Candyland and it was so much fun to decorate! I had help from my cheerleaders, teachers, coaches, some AWESOME cheerleader moms and my sweet husband, mom and sister!! They all helped to transform the 50 year old gym into a sweet candy land!

This is the front lobby that everyone walked through

Trying to get all the last-minute details into place!!

Grandma Nut's gingerbread house

I took a picture of our family's candyland board game and had Brian at Victory Graphics blow it up to 12X15!

The Chocolate Mountain and Taffy river- one example of my talented cheer moms! Amazing!!!  it's so funny because all the candyland games over the years are totally different- so we just picked what we liked from all of them and combined them

Peppermint Forest- we chose this to be in the corner where the football guys walk out because it was RED and WHITE! (another mom's creation)

4 of these guys were all around the gym- I know, I have some seriously talented cheer moms!!

 

 We had A LOT of help and lots of fun getting this all put together!

 And A LOT of sweet family that came to see it and watch Chandler perform!

Emerson!

KayKay, Angie, Edie

Bridge, Grami, Sadie, Ashlee, Rhett, Campbell, Channing, Chelsa

After staying up at the gym till FOUR A.M. on Thursday, it was so great to see it all come together on Friday! All the hard work the girls put in on their routines really paid off and they did SO good!!

Ice Cream Castle in the background-  there were SO many people there!! Sitting room only:))

Confetti Cannons are really cool!!

 We are so blessed to be able to go to this school. All of my older cheerleaders are always so sweet to my kids and my kids adore them!

Sweet Claire!

Coach Smiley was so kind and is always so encouraging to me! I am pretty much mortified when he calls me up there and talks about me but he is just the sweetest and I am so blessed to have him as a boss!

We also had a parade (which I didn't get to see because I was running around in the gym) and, of course, the football game!!!

This is a great picture- because, um Patton is not on the elementary student council! But there he is anyway and looking cute as ever!!

These boys got to run the flags at the pep rally and game and they were the "dots" in the dot race!

Chandler and her group of friends-- 1. they all look so old   2. We really just don't need to talk about how crazy this is that she is this old and having mums and friends and these crazy things

This is the "seriously mom, if  you take one more picture I am going to die right here" smile!

Bailey!

Kallison- oh I mean Allison and Kallan

My stunningly beautiful cheerleaders/homecoming queen nominees!

The whole homecoming queen court!

Precious little cheerleaders who did  a GREAT job at the game!! (Kendall)

Kaitlyn

MaryKate

Well that was A LOT of pictures!! (and I cut back on a lot of them!!) FUN weekend and I am so thankful for how it all turned out! I am also so thankful that it is over!! For now...I've already been thinking about next year:))))

Happy Birthday Parker!!

 Can't BELIEVE my baby boy is SEVEN!!! How in the world did that happen???

We had our annual "Parker and Sie" birthday party this weekend! They have shared a bday party every year since they were 2! Such fun memories!! (and half the work and cost:))))
We love this boy so much- he makes us smile EVERY day!! He says the funniest things, is so kind, and is ALWAYS asking to help out around the house. So sweet!! He brings such joy to our lives!! My pregnancy with him was the hardest out of the 3, and many times we didn't think he'd make it to even a "viable" stage of life but he surprised us all when he wasn't born until 37 weeks!! (the doctors kept talking about the baby not being viable yet- they used that word over and over- and I'll never forget the prayer my mom said over me while I lay in the hospital bed on complete bedrest--"Lord, they keep saying this baby is not viable, but he's viable to us God! We pray for your healing!!") Can't even imagine our lives without him!
We had the party at the dreaded Skatetown!! But actually it was really fun, not crowded AT ALL, and one of my favorite parties of theirs!! These kids can skate it up!

And you know what they say, A FAMILY THAT SKATES TOGETHER.........

...STAYS TOGETHER!!!
Lots of family and friends came to celebrate the boys!

We celebrated at school and the next day too- this boy was livin it up all weekend! We had such a great time celebrating our sweet Parker!!

I'll leave you with just a few of my favorite things he's said and done over the years:

1.  (age 3) singing Silent Night- replaces "Christ the Savior is born" with "Christ in flavor is gum"

2.  (age 4) Sings "Jesus take the Wii" instead of the wheel:))

3. (age 4) we had been talking about the fruit of the spirit- and whenever I did something that he thought was nice he would say, Mom- you're gentleness and self-control!

4. (age 5) P: I'm never getting married
               Me: Why?
                P: Because I don't want someone telling me what to do all the time-AND what if she likes sushi? I don't want to eat sushi.
             Me: Well maybe when you meet a girl, you should ask her if she likes sushi, and then if she does, you just move on.
              P: That's a good idea

5. (age 6) Someone told him he looked like me. They said we had the same genes. He said "yeah but mine are dark and hers are light."

6.  (age 6) "Sometimes my eyes water when I hear a sweet song"

7. (age 6)  After getting back from Africa he told his teacher he didn't know if he could do everything that day because he still had some "jet LEG"!

LOVE this boy!!