Turning 5 Wild Kratt Style

I felt so bad about Clint's birthday getting shafted this year, but as it turned out I think it was a pretty perfect and awesome birthday. Clint had been saying he just wanted a family party but then the beginning of this month he changed and said a friend party, "for sure." I thought I'd work on the birthday party before we went to DC. We went to DC and then I thought I'd work on it when we got back. I spent the day and a half washing, mowing, cleaning, and packing for our Maple Grove camp out(in lieu of the Brown's Bryce trip). So I thought I'd work on it at my moms the last few days of our Maple Grove trip. Well I ended up getting SUPER sick(food poisoning or something BAD) and then I made it back to Heber the night of the 18th without a present even for Clint to open in the morning. I felt awful about it but the morning of his birthday Darryl had to leave early for work so it worked out that we'd just have the family open presents party that night when Dad got back. So at 6:30 AM the planning began. He decided he wanted a Wild Krattz party(what do you do for that??????!!!). Well by 6:45 I had a list of fun ideas, by 12:00 we had the invitations created and delivered, by 3:00 I had a present for him, and by 6:45 we were having our little family celebration. He opened his gift from us-- found the perfect thing a spinney paint set and also came with a pottery wheel set all for $20 waHOO! He LOVED it. Then he opened some secret spy gear from the Bosshardt Grandparents. He was SO excited because Kade got the same thing last Feb. and Clint and coveted it. We had pizza(as requested) on a blanket downstairs while we watched a movie. Darryl had started reading Summer of the Monkeys with them at the beginning of this summer and they finished it so they wanted to watch the movie. Sounds like it wasn't as good.:( I had Bunco so I missed the movie. Since we had to give the friends some notice we scheduled the party for that Friday. Clint was sad we couldn't have the party on his real birthday day so I felt bad I hadn't gotten on it before and had the invitations out so we could do that. He forgave me in the end. So like I said we had some great ideas for the party. I didn't end up doing all of them but here are the 5 we did. I made them card stock creature power discs one was a spider disc. For this one they got a can of silly string and made spider webs all over the swing set. The Draco is Clint's favorite so we had them glide around the yard to save the animals(I had a brilliant idea to find silly bands because there are a ton in a pack for cheap so when they saved their animal they got to keep the silly band--actually silly band rings). The 3rd disc was a frog so they each used their sticky hand they got from the pinata as their tongue to catch one of the animals. I was surprised how easy that was for these kids I planned too much time for that activity. We also had a kangaroo disc so they hopped to a balloon and had to hop on it and pop it because I'd "trapped" an animal inside the balloon. I was surprised how many kids didn't like popping balloons--(note that for next time :)). The last disc was a firefly. We had some glow sticks that we'd gotten for a birthday and so we gave each kid one and they used their glowing power to go downstairs in the dark toy room and save (aka: find) an animal. It was so much fun to watch the kids, I figured they would love it and so I was excited to do the games with them. I'm glad no other adult was there-- no one can prove how I acted-- are you going to believe a 5 year old? :D We actually started the party off with a pinata that looked like a Draco power disc. I made it from some hangers for the round shape, and then just covered it by taping news paper and a paper bag around it. I probably should have just used newspaper-- the bag was a little too strong, but it was the most exciting explosion of the pinata we've had so I'm sure I'll just make them from now on. The pinata was filled with whale crackers, animal crackers, animal fruit snacks, an animal parachute guy, and silly hands. We did the activities next and then it was present time. Clint was so excited when he opened the foam ice cream cone shooter he got from Kade that he started jumping up and down on the couch. He and Kade gave one of those to Braxton for his birthday and they wanted one badly. A $2 gift resulted it a $100 reaction. :D He got so many great things one thing that he got that I thought was cool was the 3D chalk-- it works and it works with other chalk too--check it out sometime. He begs to play moon dough at Kenzies house so that's what she gave him. He couldn't believe that he had his own now. Then it was time to cut the cheetah power disc cake-- special request of chocolate cake with strawberry icing(I did sneak in some pudding to make it a little better). I tried to talk Clint into letting me make the icing but he insisted we buy the store stuff. The cake didn't turn out too bad, much to my surprise. The kids played for a while with their different discs and then it was time to take them home. Clint loved his party and I'm glad it didn't disappoint. Happy Birthday my 5 year old. I can't believe you're 5 is seems like we haven't lived in Heber that long so I always think you can't be as old as you are. We love you Happy.

Good Day

We finally did some typical summer activities today. The boys love to play playdo outside on their little table in the summer. Today Clint was just trying out his new pottery wheel and spinney paint machine. The boys all loved it. It was the perfect gift for Clint. That afternoon we made a trip over to the Park City Farmers Market and rode the cabriolet. It was so nice to do that again-- I love simple fun. It makes me feel like maybe life can be simple sometimes. Afterward the boys and I went to Cafe Rio and Kneaders for dinner and dessert. I had some gift cards so we only spent $1. Nice. :) Then we went to Wal-Mart and picked up another dresser for the boys room. They are to the point that they put on each others clothes because they're all together. They are close in size but Kade's little belly pokes out if he's wearing Kade's shirts. Plus there really isn't enough room in one dresser for both of their clothes.

Clint's Birthday!

Well Clint was turning 5 today whether I was ready or not. I kept wanting to work on party plans for Clint but life has been a little busy so I kept thinking I'd get to get the next day and couldn't. I had intended on doing it at my mom's house but being sick made me useless. Darryl had an early morning meeting today so we decided we'd celebrate with him at dinner time. That was a relief because I hadn't had a chance to go to a store to get him a gift, so while he was sleeping I ran to Kings and found the perfect gift, a spinney paint and spinning pottery wheel. This morning I had no idea what we'd do for a friend party, Clint had picked the go somewhere big with the family instead of the friend party option. Well he changed his mind a couple weeks ago and I hadn't gotten to that. So this morning at 6:30 no idea other than he wanted a fireman party because we had silly string at Kade's fireman party. Well at 6:45 he'd decided he wanted a Wild Kratt Party, and I had no idea what to do with that. Well the ideas started flowing. I immediately thought of how the boys play like they have creature power discs for different powers. So I figured we could make the kids different creature power disks and do different things with them like the spider disc they could make spider webs with silly string. Yea the silly string was incorporated so Clint was happy! We had the party planned, the invitations made and delivered by 1:00. When Darryl got home it was about 6:45 and I had Bunco at 7, so in 10 min we had candles and song, presents, and pizza(as per Clint's request). What a whirlwind of a day! Darryl and the boys watched Summer of the Monkeys. They have been reading it together and just finished the book a couple weeks ago. It sounds like the book is the more preferred. Clint was thrilled to get a spy kit just like Kade's from Granny and Grandpa Bosshardt. (They played spys almost everyday for months). He was also very excited about his paint and pottery set.

Sick update

Darryl had to head back to Heber last night so he could work but I wasn't feeling quite up to traveling so since we had both cars I just stayed in Aurora. I didn't do a whole lot today but I was improving so headed back to Heber in the evening.

"charades"

While we were at my folks house Britain and Ryan started this fun game of "charades" with Kade and Clint. It was so funny because they talked or sang the whole time; charades is suppose to be solely actions and no sounds. They would pair up and put together a routine, run through it and then perform it for the other two. The other two were suppose to guess what they were doing. I laughed when they would reveal what they were suppose to guess. One time it was, "A series of events." :D In these pictures Britain was being the old lady feeding the birds and Clint was being the bird. Clint was a very believable bird. :) It was hilarious to watch. Kade was kicking a goal, again and again and again until while Ryan rode around and sang a ditty.
I was still sicker than sick today. I got up and started getting the kids breakfast but had to run to the bathroom. The last thing I remember is I was having an intense heat flash and felt horrible. The next thing I remember is my mom and Darryl in the bathroom looking over me. Scary. Well I was still throwing up if I was vertical so I just climbed in bed and didn't leave it until the evening to go watch the kids charades because they said it would make me feel better--so sweet. I'll be happy when this bug is gone!

Maple Grove Day 3 Pics

We had a great time camping and we were enjoying some time in Aurora. Darryl was trying to fix my mom's fan for her and I went from feeling fine to not so fine. We were going to head to Redmond to do a test run of the Road Rally for Neal but I wasn't up for it. I ended up throwing up and felt better so we headed over to Redmond. We got through most of the rally and then I had to be done. We barely made it into the driveway and I barely made it to the ditch. After that we decided I should probably go to Aurora and lay down in quarantine. I didn't make it to Aurora with out being sick again. The night wasn't much better. I don't know what I ate or what kind of bug I picked up but WOW it's no fun! I pray SO hard that no one else has to deal with this.

Maple Grove Day 2 pics

Maple Grove Campout Summary and Pictures from the 1st Night

We were going to have our Brown Bryce Canyon trip this weekend but since my Mom can't leave my dad we opted to just camp at Maple Grove a couple days and then go see Grandma and Grandpa for a couple days. We got there on Thursday night, set up camp, and then cooked hot dogs and smores(new discovery Chocolate marshmallows--yum even better with smores). The next day we went hiking for Geocaches and found out there are waterfalls by Maple Grove. That may just be neat to some but to us we were blown away. Darryl spent a good portion of his life hiking to Maple Grove and around it and he didn't even know about the waterfalls. On the hike we saw a mother bird who looked like a rock. She looked deformed but she flew away and we found that the feathers on the bottom of her didn't belong to her-- they were her two babies. Cole loves birds so it was fun to show them to him. That is one of the few things he'll say, "Bir, bir, bir." We hiked back and Darryl and Clint went fishing in the creek. Not much luck but it's still good times. Then we went and played on the rope swings. The water was ice cold so Darryl froze his legs and feet helping the boys. I never got a great picture of his reaction to the cold though. :) That night we made pita pizzas and had a great fire so we all told stories. They boys came up with some great ones-- I should have written them down. The next day we packed up camp and then biked around geocaching some more. The boys spent a lot of the afternoon riding down the hill on their bikes with the neighbor campers kids. I loved making friends at the camp grounds when we'd camp at Fishlake. Good times. This was such a fun trip. It was so nice to just be laid back and not be rushed to keep a schedule and just be able to take in the outdoors--love it! Sad that they have the hike to the "eye" closed because someone got seriously hurt or died a while back. When we had enough on Saturday we packed up and headed over to Aurora to spend some time with Mom and Dad.