Lucas was so excited for his birthday party this year, even more then his actual birthday day. This was the first year he had a big friends party like his big brother and sister. He has been into cars and racing a lot, and what boy isn't. He pretty much carries a hot wheels with him wherever he goes. I didn't get to take a ton of pictures during the action of the party because well I was hosting the activities. We did all things hot wheels... I found a racing jumpsuit for Lucas at Party City, so he was able to look the race car driver part. Everyone got to pick there own race car to race and then take home with them. They also got little race helmets to look the part like Lucas. Who doesn't like to be in charge and decorate their own race car and license plate? Even some of the adults got in on it. Once everyone arrived at the party, and was ready to start having fun, we used Oreo's as wheels and asked the kids to stack their wheels as high as they could without tipping. Most the kids got into it, some just ate the cookies. The record was set by D at 26 wheels high! The hot wheels racing was our main event! Huge shout out to my dad{aka grandpa} who constructed the whole track! It worked phenomenal. We had a little harder time judging who came in first, second, third, and forth. Once we figured that out our computer tech{Kris aka Dad} input everything in a spreadsheet and wham we knew the winners after multiple heats! Lucas and his friend Max had a ton of fun watching and cheering on all the races, some of the girls not so much. Surprisingly, Kourtney's car won overall even though she was napping most of the party and barely picked out her own car. While the racing was going on we had a pit stop play area and play-doh area set up for those that didn't want to watch ALL the races. We wrapped up the party with cupcakes and snacks. I forgot to take a picture of the full snack pit stop but we had chips, popcorn, fruit snack, and drinks. It was fun to try and watch the adults get the drinks out of the childproof gas cans. That was unintentional but did give us a little laugh! Lucas had a fantastic time with all his friends and family! In the end he got a little too into the present opening!
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My birthday boy, what can I say...
It feels like just yesterday I was walking and walking about the park to get you to join our family and it was in such a park that I felt a stirring and I knew you would be joining us soon! Maybe that was a precursor to your life because not a day passes that you don't ask to go to the park. Jumping and playing, smiling and sailing, you enjoy it all! While you are our stubborn and hardheaded one you also teach us the most. How to live each day to it's fullest, how to dance in the rain, and how to find adventure in everything we do! You see the dinosaur in the clouds, the glitter in the snow, the wildlife in the bathtub, and the stars under the blankets. Thank you, oh thank you for joining our family! I can't wait to see what that adventurous spirit does each and every moment from here on. Every New Years Eve we stay in, get movies, play games, have some bubbly, and set off some fireworks! This year was no exception, however we added a little twist. Everyone knows I am pretty obsessed with pinterest, and why not, it has tons of great ideas! So when I found this balloon activity for New Years I knew we had to do it. This is what you do... Decide what time you want to start and get enough balloons for each hour. Write an easy activity to do each hour on a slip of paper and put it in the balloon before blowing it up. Blow up all the balloons and hang them up somewhere. Then each hour on the hour pop a balloon and do the activity inside together. We all had so much fun! We made brownies together. Made some new years resolutions together. When the ball dropped I got to kiss each and everyone of my babies and have some bubbly! To top off the night we went outside and Lucas and Kris put on a little fireworks display! We had so much fun and the kids said it was, "the BEST new years ever!"
Between Christmas and New Years we headed up North to spend some time with Kris's family. It was really actually kind of relaxing even with eight kids running around. The kids got lots of grandma time... ...and uncle time! {The kiddos were always a little crazy so this was the best I could get} We went sledding a ton! This particular time was pretty cold and Kourtney wasn't to excited about it she just wanted "ups." The bigger kids however didn't seem phased by the cold or the size of the hill to continually walk back up after the 30 second trip down. Lucas really didn't care about the cold either as long as he had Uncle Matt by his side! The whole time up North was fun and relaxing, the sledding days especially were fun...getting us outside and racing down the hills! It also gave these three a chance to catch up! And really any day you can get a view like this you know you are in the right place!
This Christmas was so exciting, we had so much family time together to do some fun activities. Really, any Christmas we are all together and Kris is home we are blessed! We made homemade gifts. Had a night filled with gingerbread and candy. I am not really sure when they came down from that sugar high. We did our annual holiday lights search throughout the neighborhoods. Lights were a little scares this year but we found this small cul-de-sac right off the main round where every house was decorated to the hilt! We attended a beautiful Christmas Eve service at our new Church. It was amazing to see all the kids sitting up on stage listening so intently to the Christmas Story. Of course, we enjoyed presents and playtime! We raced, chatted on facetime, tested out new headphones and gamed a TON, and even made a bunch of play-doh candies. We even had a couple of sickies, so instead of playing the whole time we relaxed some by watched movies and eating popcorn. We had a beautiful Christmas Day dinner{just the 6 of us}! Keeping with tradition we made our Jesus birthday cake to complete the celebration of the birth of our Lord. It's been a crazy, exhausting, fun filled, relaxing, sugar induced couple of weeks. We had committed ourselves to simplifying this year and even though it may not look like we did...we made a commitment and stuck to it! We simplified by focusing on doing activities together as a family and creating lasting memories that will long out live any present or gift you can receive.
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