9 years old

9 years old!!! I cried that night after our nightly reading, it was Goosebumps of course 'Night of the living Dummy' He told me he had the best day of his life :P

This little boy changed my life.

He was my little buddy... a blonde haired, blue eyed, spitfire with a dimply smile that melted your heart, he still melts by heart with that smile.

He has the kindest heart and not a day goes by he doesn't say or do something nice for me. He is a Momma's boy but idolizes his Dad, he wants to be just like him, I am so thankful for that.

He reminds me so much of my Sister, I swear it's payback for all the times I was mean to her, they both are OCD about certain things. Quirky little habits, nervous ticks, things have to be in order and in place.

I always tear up when the kids blow out their candles, another year down, tears of joy, frustration, the known and unknown. But I cried tonight because my little buddy isn't so little anymore, he is 9!!!!
When did this happen? In another 9 years he will be off to College.

My Dad always teases me about this, but it's true, another 9 years and he is gone. Sure he will always be my little buddy but it's never the same. Every year he gets a little more independent, closer and closer to live his own life.

Hunter, I sure am glad you are mine, thank you for being mine. Happy Birthday, I love you so very much!

Birthday the big #9

Wendys lunch for the special Birthday boy



* I have to remember this... At their school they are allowed to wear Red, White, or Blue polo shirts, he has all 3 but will only wear the Blue if ALL the others are really dirty lol. He says he CANNOT wear BYU Blue EVER :P

He wanted M&M cookies for his class, don't you love his birthday hat :)


He got home and saw his main gift being put together, I will take a pic when his room is in order, he wanted a shelf for all his trophy's :)


Then it was time to PAR-TAY, we had pizza and breadtwists of course, his friends were so cute saying how lucky he was to have PF pizza whenever he wanted lol


Then we headed to Antigravity to jump for 2 hours!!
I was sad this year he wanted to go somewhere and I didn't have a chance to put together a fun party at home but oh well, I still have 3 other kids ;)
The boys played dodgeball the entire time! Only to break for cake and ice cream and I had to pull them away to do that!

Birthday Celebration Day 2

Grandma and Grandpa came over and opened presents, legos, sweater, jacket, and a pair of shoes, spoiled boy!! The jacket he is wearing is from Aunt Ashley and Uncle Ryan good choice he is our ALL-STAR :)

We head to Grandma and Grandpa Bentley's for dinner, Hunter chose her special Chicken Nuggets and sauce, mashed potatoes n gravy, corn, and muffins. I need to take a picture one of these days its the best Mmmmm
We had Root Beer floats instead of cake :)

Then presents! All the cousins sitting anxiously for him to tear into them, we let him open our presents except his main gift! He was spoiled with tons of stuff but he finally got his neon green cleats, he was soooo excited about these :)
Thanks to all our family who made him feel so loved :)

Birthday Celebration Day 1

Grandma Kathy's Birthday lunch and shopping spree :)

Hunter chose Wendys for lunch and came home with tons of matchbox cars, which surprised me since he hardly plays with his anymore, but hey, what the birthday boy wants... he gets :)

Then my family went bowling, always commical with all of us






Tjs can win any game, all those impossible carnival games he wins! Hunter must have the Bentley luck because he tried the claw machine once and won!!!

PF number pizza dinner, Dad always spoils us when we go eat, pizza, breadtwists with all the sauces, honeybutter, sweet cream, cinnamon, yummy salads with ranch, and Never on Sundays for dessert. We had to be rolled out :P

Visitors

For a couple days I got to watch these cute boys Tate and Beckham :) My bestie Ashlee had some work to do down here and I was just so excited to play with her and her boys!

We had so much fun and as always her trip was full of fun of adventures Lol

TJ watched all the kids Friday night so we could go out to eat and get in some chats without the little ones taking all the attention.
(picture to come)

The kids loved baby Beckham, especially Callaway! I was thinking I would be baby hungry but NOPE, I am soooo glad I am done with that chapter :) I love babies and I miss my babies being that little but man, I am so glad I am done!!! (knocking very hard on wood) Don't mind our bed head, weird outfits :P I had 5 kids under 5 all day and sometimes 7 kids, it was a little crazy at our house!




and Tate aka my Tater tot :) he had an ER visit because his cut was infected, poor guy always visits the ER while in STG lol :P We took good care of him and he wasn't as willing to get his picture as his brother, stinker :)

favorite time of day

we read a ton at our house, Callaway likes to read before he goes to sleep and when he wakes up. He loves this puppy book, when it talks about dog bowls he pretends to lick up water out of the bowls on the page lol. He also barks through the whole book :) another favorite is peek-a-boo monster, tractors, and Monster's are silly

One of my favorite times of day :)