Happy Birthday Ben!

Today is March 14, 2010....right?!? Because thats when Ben's birthday was and there is no way I could be a month late in posting about such a special day. So for my sake, today is March 14th and Ben turned 5 today!

I can't believe Ben turned 5 and will be starting kindergarten in the fall. Ben was 10 months old when we moved into our house. Where has the time gone? It is so true that the older you get the faster time goes.

Ben had two parties this year. Ben was sick the two days before his birthday, so on his actual birthday we had to cancel the dinner that was planned with the entire family and just the grandparents came over for cake and icecream. We didn't want to risk getting any of the cousins sick, but Ben was sure disappointed. But of course, the highlight of the night was Ben getting to light his own birthday candles. Ben has quite the fascination with matches. I keep hoping he will continue to listen to me when I say, "If you ever find matches, bring them to me and I will let you light them while I watch." Luckily, he hasn't figured out my hiding spots yet.

He got to have a friend birthday party on Tuesday and I took them to Kangaroo Zoo. They all loved it! We came back to our house and had pizza and cake. It was a really fun day.

Here are some special things about Ben:

Ben is such a good brother. He plays with Sam and Jack all the time and although he LOVES to tease he does play very nicely with his brothers. I am just waiting for the nice days to outweigh the teasing days! But we sure love him!

Ben is such a creative boy. He loves to build machines out of toys. He gathers toys into a pile and makes it into a machine. He will tell you where the engine is, where the starter motor is, where the smoke and fire come out to give it lots of power, and anything else you need to know about his machine. Every toy has a purpose.

Ben is the world's best playstation buddy for Sam. Ben loves to watch Sam play games on the playstation. He will sit and watch Sam for an hour and not ask to play once. Sam loves it when people watch him. I'm sure Sam doesn't realize how lucky he is to have Ben just sitting and watching him play. I don't know how much longer that will last though!

Happy Birthday Ben! We LOVE you!

Disneyland 2010!

Yes, it has been way too long since I have blogged. I can blame it on being in charge of the PTA fundraiser in September, October, and November....then the holidays are to blame after that. Then the New Year and getting ready to go to Disneyland on January 9th.....yup, it's not my fault I haven't been able to blog! ;)

But, I do finally have something really fabulous to blog about....Disneyland!! (Not that Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas aren't fabulous.....just ya know....there was no time!)

BUT....

I. LOVE. DISNEYLAND.

Truly, Truly, the Happiest Place on Earth.....well, and Sea World is right there with it, but we just did Disneyland this time and we had so much fun!

We drove to Vegas on Saturday and then into Anaheim on Sunday. We went to Disneyland Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.

Sam's favorite rides were Pirates of the Caribbean (he could have gone on that one all day) Toy Story in California Adventure and Buzz Light Year. He tried Matter Horn and DID NOT like it!

Ben's favorite rides were Pirates, Toy Story, and Buzz (Ben likes whatever Sam likes) although Ben did try some big rides like Matter Horn, Space Mountain, and Tower of Terror....he liked Matter Horn....we won't talk about the other two!

My favorite rides were Space Mountain and California Screamin. My favorite ride to go on with the kids was Toy Story. That is a GREAT ride!

Joe's favorite rides were Space Mountain and California Screamin.....he just told me that his most favorite though was the Scary Adventures of Snow White :)

Such strong MEN to protect the only female in the household!

Mom and her boys!

We went with my family and all the cousins had so much fun together. We are missing little Ella, she is asleep in the stroller you can see off to the side.

Now, I wish I could say that Ben always cooperated for pictures, but most of the time he DID NOT want his picture taken!

Dang....I just really wanted a picture with Micky and my boys, but Ben WOULD NOT cooperate and Jonas was in charge of bringing Jack to me so that he could be in the picture......obviously, the husband has a hard time cooperating too!

Tarzan's Tree House. Ella did not like this picture spot!

Kyle, Kaleb, and Katie

I realized after looking through my pictures that I didn't have any pictures of my other family members besides this one! Sorry Mom, Heidi, and Dan......I was not a good picture taker on this trip. I am sad I don't have more of all of you!

Grandpa and Ben

On Thursday we went to the beach before we headed home. I love the beach and so did the kids. We didn't expect to stay as long as we did, but they were having so much fun (I was too) that we couldn't bring ourselves to leave. Making that decision though, made it so we didn't get to St. George until 10:00 PM. That was NOT fun. AND we will never drive clear to St. George again, we will definitely be stopping in Vegas!

This was a great trip! I am looking forward to November when we get to go with the Webster family to Disneyland! I know.....how lucky is that! Two trips to Disneyland in one year! We just have to grow some more money and it will be a blast! ;)