a little more about Perry

We got Perry's school picture proofs back. Eric asked Perry which one he like best. He told him, "The mad face."

Perry was pretty thrilled when he got on the motorcycle with Papa.

I haven't had a chance to take Perry to the museum yet, but I did take him on a quick date to Bahama Bucks. Spending one on one time with this boy is too great.

Perry is also rocking it in swim lessons right now. He loves the water!

our Perry boy is 6

We celebrated this little man's birthday a few weeks ago.

 

6 years old!

I can't even express how much I love this little boy of mine. He brings smiles to my face each and every day. My life is better, I am better, because of him.

Was it really just four years ago that this little cutie joined our family?

Now here he is a tall, sweet, fun 6 year old.

And this 6 year old was adamant that he did not want to invite his school friends to his party. He didn't want "grills" (girls) either. He just wanted Rescue Bots. That's all.

I looked all over and never found rescue bot party decorations. I thought about making some, but we didn't even have a printer in our rental house and I am no artist. So I took Perry to Target to pick something else out. Which I described a little bit back here. In the end, he bought a set of batman party favors and he sorted them into bags. He also picked out the punching balloons. So, at his party, we ate pizza and then he passed out party favor bags to all the kids. The kids played with the little toys until it was time for cake and presents.

(get ready for a slew of bad phone pictures)

We sang happy birthday and let him blow out the candles. I can't believe I didn't get a close up picture of the cake my mom made him--she made a rescue bot transformer face on top. He thought it was pretty cool!

 

 

He opened presents and was quite pleased with his loot--rescue bots, Legos, rescue bots books, a game, and a batman robot transformer.

Before his family birthday party at home, I met him at school and ate lunch with them. Then we celebrated his birthday in the classroom with cookies. It was so sweet to watch him carefully pass out birthday treats to each of his friends.

 

I have a feeling 6 will be his best year yet.

 

i'm here

My phone dropped from the second story to the tile floor yesterday. It did not like that. At all. And let me tell you, it was just one thing after another yesterday, including some surprising challenges with the boys new soccer league and culminating in the swallowing of a bug while E and I were out walking. Seriously, the majority of my days do not seem to go smoothly or productively, so I have to keep reminding myself that at least I had the money and the time (too long) it took to go get the phone fixed (even though that's not exactly how I wanted to use my money or time). And we have good health. And each other. And food, clothes, clean water, and the sun. Count my blessings, shrug my shoulders, laugh when I can, and keep on going.

After more than 7 weeks, I have a desktop computer and working internet, too. It feels strange to be typing on a keyboard instead of my phone. But it's so much faster.

I went out to eat over the weekend with some awesome ladies from some of the wards around here. One of them is just starting to build a house and was talking about how much she loved her design center appointment. I will never understand women like that. I am trying to pick paint colors right now and I am ready to throw in the towel and leave it all white. Or just go into hiding until someone else picks for me. My phone is filled with pictures of paint colors and living rooms. This is the current color I am leaning towards for our main living space.

I feel like a pendulum right now. One minute I am feeling so good about our decisions and our house and then, for whatever reason, I swing towards the weight of the stress and worry of everything that needs to be done or isn't going smoothly in life. I'm happy, but I'm exhausted. 

these days

We are all moved in to our new house! We are surrounded by boxes and have our organizational and decorating work cut out for us, but we are in. 

I still need to document Perry's birthday and our new house, but we are still without a desktop computer and Internet. So for now, here is a picture of one of the sweetest moments yesterday. 

 

Kyler and Perry were zoned out in front of the Xbox, but at least they were zoned out playing together. I love sibling friendship.

Kacin's turn

I could be a museum curator now. After three visits in the last month, I know the museum of natural history pretty well. It was Kacin's turn for an afternoon date and I couldn't deviate from the outing the other two got (plus I have a membership now). 

 

So even though this was not on his list of ways to spend the afternoon, we went to the museum together.

 

I like to think it went better than he imagined.

 

As much as I am working on it, right now it's not really his thing to study items on display or read all about them. But I like to think he learned and appreciated something from the afternoon and all we saw.

 

In the very least, I sure enjoyed spending time with this guy. He really is a great kid.