Happy 7th Birthday Sidon!

Seven years old, really?! We spent Sidons day at Grandma and Papa's Council house. The day was fun and laid back and very easy! You will have to excuse the lack of pictures, some of them are on Mom's camera!

Sidon you are quickly becoming a big kid. You are Sawyers constant companion, and fellow errand runner (Post Office, Library, and whatever else is relatively close to the house). I am so thankful to have two big boys like you both to protect those sisters of yours. You told me the other day that you cannot wait to play football so that you can "Lay someone out!". We warned you that sometimes you are the one that gets 'laid out' and you just grinned that Sidon grin and said "I don't care.". I have a feeling that we are going to have alot of fun watching you play sports (as long as we don't have any more basketball kicking episodes!). You are going to be starting first grade and spending whole days at school and I will miss you being here with the girls. I know that you are ready to learn more and that is exciting for Dad and I. This next year will go by faster than I want it to but I pray it will be one full of great memories! I love you tough guy.



Blowing out the candles...

Sidon got a new bike from Grandma and Papa........

Fancy Maggie...........

Oh my special Maggers....
We truly had the fancy birthday this year with your Cinderella dress and the parfait's. You are into everything fancy (Thanks Fancy Nancy). French words, pretty pink poodles, parfaits instead of plain old ordinary sundaes, an impressive vocabulary, and beautiful tea lights on the table. I am amazed at how you look over your brother's shoulder and 'help' him out when he is doing a timed practice with his letters, he doesn't appreciate it much but I am so proud of you none the less. I will always think that you were the most beautiful Maggie that was ever born. I see me in your face and I love that. With the right encouragement you are the best helper I could ever have. I have loved how you have taken to using new words and putting them into your own sentences.........I am so humiliated because I can't find any clean panties (Classic)! I hope that is the very worst of your humiliations. You have become the leader of the pack. I cannot for the life of me envision my life without all three of my girls in it, and you being in the lead. You will make a good leader, I am sure of it. Our conversations have been focused around 'excursions' (very special trip) to the ocean lately and I hope that is something that we can post about soon. I love your face sweet girl, Happy 5th Birthday Maggie Shay!

Maggie holds the record. She is the first child in the Green house to NOT have a birthday cake on her birthday! She wanted a 'Fancy' party and she got one. Ooh La La, she wanted parfaits for her birthday and to top it off she received a whole bag of Fancy Nancy loot from Grandma and Papa! Grandma Nelma provided jewelery in the form of a heart shaped locket. As you can see from the pictures below Lindsay was able to come to her party which was a good gift all in itself. Maggers is 5!!!

Molly turns 3!!

Tater is three!!! This birthday has been anticipated all week, like every good birthday should!
Where do I begin and were do I stop with you? You are my sweet Tater that loves sweet taters, you have always been easy to please and, up until this two year old stage, not at all dramatic! You are my talker, telling me in full detail about everything that interests you, you love to cuddle, especially with 'Your' Dad. You think, most of the time, that Maggie is an awesome big sister. It has been a fun thing to watch you become a big girl that can play dolls with the best of them, and hold your own when it comes to picking which ones you get to play with! When I ask you 'Molly, who loves you?' your answer comes quickly and very sure, 'My Daddy does!', or 'My Papa does!', or 'My Bo does!' , and usually in that order! Molly, you love your big guys and I want you to know how blessed you are to have such awesome 'big guys' to love!
You are our singer, from the time you were little we could turn on music and the body was moving and the mouth was jabbering. You have an amazing ability to remember so many lyrics to songs and belt them out with confidence as soon as you hear the intro to a song! I want you to know how many times you have brought 'happy tears' to the eyes of your Daddy and I when we listen to your sweet voice in the back of the car. You love purple, your thumb that tastes like vanilla, your purple binky blanket (Krissi asked her what she does with binky and Molly replied 'It's just for smelling'), and your bottom bunk. Molly Tate Green you are the prettiest Molly we ever have seen, Happy Birthday!
Molly has been on a cookie kick lately and it seems like everytime we ask what she would like to eat, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, it's cookies. Now we don't feed her cookies for every meal but I thought it would be fun to make her sugar cookies for her birthday instead of the usual cake and now a new tradition is made, I think it will be cookies on every birthday for her!





All of the kids drew Molly their own version of Ariel, they did this on their own and I hadn't seen them. I am always in awe of how thoughtful they can be (most of the time)!


Thanks Aunt Lori, Uncle Greg, and Clan for some much needed reading material!

Bo is good in all areas, playing peek-a-boo and helping with the bubble blowing!



All great birthdays usually have at least one meltdown...........

Which leads to a sound sleep, GREAT Birthday, Check!

Tallis turns 1!!!

Oh Tallis Rose, my sweet girl. This year has flown by, like they all do and will. You are my 'go-getter' and I'm not sure that you ever slow down! You were standing in your bassinet at 5 months, walking (or running) at 10 months and I have so enjoyed this year of trying to keep up with you. I have not always beat you to the toilet (fishing bowl), I have learned that you just REALLY like to be up where all of the action is, you should never be let out of a diaper, you have an awesome sense of humor, the BEST hair ever, and Grandpa Earl is smiling just seeing your face. You have been some very amazing moral support when I needed it, been a blessing and a gift in the midst of lifes storms, I cannot imagine our lives without you in it. Your brothers and sisters love and adore your sweet face, I can only imagine how much fun these next years are going to be! We love you, Happy Birthday.

Happy Birthday Smed!!

September 14th has come again and yet again I cannot believe that Sawyer is another year older. Eight years ago as we sat in the McCall hospital for thirty-some hours watching the World Trade Center disaster play out again and again I would not have been able to tell you how amazing my oldest is or was going to be. Sawyer is my sensitive helper and my right hand. You are so quick to talk back and want the last word, might I say a little llama drama. You are smart and have an endearing sense of humor and a deep love of animals, fake and real. I cannot imagine our lives without you in it and all that followed. I cannot wait for the years ahead, and yes, I know that they will fly by as these so quickly have. Without good family my prayer of being a mother might have gone unfulfilled, I cannot even imagine. We love you Smed and hopefully your eighth year will go slower than your seventh. Happy Birthday.

Sidon turns 6!!!!

Oh my tough little man! You will stand toe to toe with Bo and (usually) will not back down. These six years have gone by so fast and you are ready to go to school. When I asked you if you would like to just stay home with me for one more year your response was, as always, completely honest. "I think it will be nice to have a break from all the girls", oh if only that were true. You are truly protective of those girls of yours! I'm so glad I have tough boys to look out for, and fight with, their sisters! You will never outgrow being my BooBaa. You are honest, blunt, handsome, stubborn, and soft-hearted all rolled into one tough little tow-headed kid. You definitely see things as right or wrong and I love that about you. Happy Birthday!

We spent Sidon's day at Lost Lake. I have to say that he is clever, when I asked him what he wanted for his birthday dinner his answer was 'Fish that we catch'. Tricky, an outing and a meal! Well we ended up compromising and had a picnic at the lake and Papa brought this awesome raft that provided hours of entertainment. While we played I had pork roast in the slow cooker to make pulled pork sandwiches for dinner. The best tasting dinner is one that is cooking while you are playing!! Grandma made the cake in the morning and we decorated once we got home, Transformers of course! Bo took all the kids in the raft for a tour, I was impressed! Papa was a sport and paddled the boys out so that they could jump out and swim to shore. I made Craig take me on a not long enough trip in the raft. The wind was blowing and without a lot of rowing we would have ended up on the other side of the reservoir, on a Saturday after a long week of work rowing was not high on the priority list! We headed for the bank. We ended our day with dinner and cake and icecream and dip in the two pools that Grandma and Papa brought for Sidon to share with his siblings! Great day, memories, and birthday!




Sidon looking tough!

Bo on one of his many trips!

Molly and her 'Pillow Head'.

Tallis enjoying her day.

Maggie warming up and 'just watching the water'.

Papa and the kids.



Bo tossing Sidon grapes!