Erilyns birthday survey age 6

What is your favorite color? Pink
What is your favorite food? Pizza
what is your favorite show? Cookie swirl c ( youtube channel)
what is your favorite holiday? Christmas.
what is your favorite thing to do outside? Play on the swing
what is your favorite toy? My seahorse ( stuffed animal)
Do you like baths?  nods head yes but I don't like getting my hair washed.
Who is your best friend?  London
what is your favorite thing to do with Enslie? Play house. Brother? play ball
what is your favorite thing to do with mommy? help her clean
what is your favorite thing to do with daddy? When he drops me off at school
what is your favorite book? The butt book
what is your favorite drink?  chocolate milk
what is your favorite thing to wear? my skirts
what is your favorite place to go? chuck e cheese
do you like church? kinda but not kinda
do you like cake? yes.
what is your favorite thing you did this year? open Christmas books
what is your favorite snack? when mommy makes them look like faces.
I want to add my favorite thing about school is.. making the animal letters.
what is you favorite thing about Christmas since my birthday is close to Christmas... when you go to go see santa.

Erilyns 6th birthday!

My baby is 6!! Its crazy how fast time has flown by.

Giggles decorated the hallway...

Put up a sign....

And left candles for her cake and bows for her hair.

She was so excied she didn't have to wear her uniform to school on her birthday and that it was a half day.

My beautiful baby isn't such a  baby any more!

She requested a "special breakfast" so I made orange rolls.

Korbyn enjoyed playing with sisters streamers while she was at school.

And licking that beater and spatula from making frosting for sugar cookies.

Erilyn knew we were doing sugar cookies after school but not that her cousins would be there she was so excited when she walked up and saw them!

When we asked her what she wanted for her birthday dinner she said chuck e cheese pizza and play games.

So we headed there after sugar cookies and some playing and invited the cousins to come with us.

Cake time!!

She was very specific about her cake looked and tasted like this year luckily I have a friend who works at a bakery and was able to make it happen for her!!

After chuck e cheese we headed home to open her present from mommy and daddy she was so excited to get a kit to make her own chocolate eggs!!

We had to make one right away!!

She got these jammies and blanket from school and insisted I get a picture of her with them! She said she had a great birthday and her favorite thing was playing games at chuck e cheese.

Zoo lights!

We went to zoo lights on the 11 with Hamma and Hampa and Shaless' family it was fun but really cold and the air wasn't that great but the kids had fun and that's all that matters. After my mom surprised us with hot coco and cinnamon rolls the kids loved them!! We ate our food and made the journey down the street to Christmas street then to read the bible story of Christmas in peoples yard the kids loved it!!

Light the world.

A couple week ago we got a call from a young men's leader in Lindon Utah. They were doing a light the world project and some of the families they were originally going to do this for had dropped out, our names came up. I felt as though there families that certainty needed it more then we did and recommended a few other families  who deserved it more then us. They insisted that they come to us I reluctantly agreed. As we were waiting for them to come the kids got excited and were literally jumping every where ( I didn't tell them who was coming or what was going to happen honestly I wasn't sure what was going to happen any way he mainly talked to Travis). I'm running around the house making sure it stays some what clean. I hear a loud thud and Korbyn starts screaming his head off I run in pick him up off the floor and cuddle him for a few min he isn't calming down. So turn him to look at him and see what hurts and realize he has bloody nose! Now both of us are covered in blood I panick and ask Erilyn to go get some tp to help clean up I look at my Phone its a few min past when our guests were supposed to arrive and now we literally have blood everywhere! Erilyn walks in with a square of tp yes 1 square. I know that not go to even make a dent in it so we run to the bath room. Korbyn wont let me even touch his nose. So I start splashing cold water on his face ( with the many bloody noses I have had over the years I know this slows the blood down) It also helps clean up. I grab a wash cloth and get it wet and put it on the back of his neck. He is screaming bloody murder the whole time we finally get it to stop. I then realize that I'm covered in blood so I run down stairs to change and notice that it is now 15 min past when they were supposed to arrive. I grab Korbyn new clothes and run to change him. As I'm finishing up I think maybe we didn't hear the door and they just left everything on the porch or they came but the screaming scared them away. They pull up just as the kids open the door the kids squeal with excitement! " MOM MOM I THINK THEY ARE HERE!" " MOM THEY HAVE BIG PRESENTS ARE THEY FOR US?!" " MOM THERE ARE LOTS OF THEM! CAN WE LET THEM IN!?" I told them yes let them in!
There were about 15 of them all together. These teens were beamimg from ear to ear! They were almost more excited then my kids! They were carrying rather large presents and were so excited to say who the present they were holding was for. They put the presents under the tree and took turns asking each other questions. Then they sang jingle bells, up on the house top, and Rudolph With the kids. The spirit that these teens brought was so strong and seeing the light of Christmas not only thru my kids eyes but thru the eyes of these teens because of my kids was priceless and something I will never forget. I now know that it wasn't us that needed this great act of service. It was those teens and leaders that needed it and I'm so glad that my kids got to help with that. Aslo my kids got to see that complete strangers would travel an hour out of their way to come help them and brighten their day! I was fighting back tears the whole time and didn't get any pictures of them. I wish I had! As soon as they left  we had a birthday party to go to so we piled up in the car and went to that. As soon as we got home They were asking if they could open the presents, I said they could each open one and before I knew it they were all open!!

Posing with all the gifts.

Korbyn fell asleep during one of  the songs. All that screaming must have worn him out.

Enslie was so excited to get this ginormous unicorn stuffed animal.

They each got an outfit this is Erilyns.

Korbyns.

They each also got a book this is one of the girls I didn't see wich belonged to wich.

Korbyn got blocks.

Erilyn got babies.

Enslies outfit.

The after math!

I'm again so grateful for this light the world service project and for the amazing teens so freely gave to my kids and taught them the true meaning of Christmas and that is to be Christ like and Give.

Giggles.

Giggles came back again this year. She wrote Hello with the books.

And hung from the light.

She decorated the tree with underwear and diapers.

And brought the kids new crayons.

She hung on the curtain rod and left some magic seeds for the kids to plant....

It said something like plant the seeds in powdered sugar and sprinkle with regular sugar blow lots of kisses and the candy canes will grow with the help of elf magic.

The first night they grew a bit.

The next day they were a bit bigger the kids got excited and added more sugar and blew more kisses.

This is what we found when we got home from getting Erilyn from school that same day!!

She put mustaches on all our pictures Erilyn cried because she thought they would ruin the pictures once she saw that it was ok she admitted that it was funny.

She brought a ginger bread reindeer barn.

The kids had fun building it but even more fun eating and destroying it.

She was thirsty on day.

And this morning she was caught with a hot coco packet.