Tyler's 7th Birthday

My little boy had his seventh birthday this year.  I can't believe how fast time has gone by.  I still remember like it was moments ago the day he was born.  He has been so fun to have in our home.  I love how he will just sit and visit with me about anything.  It is a funny and very smart kid.  It had been fun to watch him learn and grow over the years.  I just can't believe that he is growing up on me.  I tell him everyday to stop but he just doesn't listen to me.

We had a great night celebrating his birthday with his cousins and some friends. 

Every year for my boys birthdays they count on getting at least one package of Oreo's. We all love them.
Pretty much every year Tyler asks for an Oreo ice cream cake, this year was no different.  Sometimes I actually take the time to make it but this year we bought him one instead.

He had a great birthday and is looking forward to his next birthday because he will get baptised and he is very excited about that. 

We love you so much Tyler.

Weird kids!

Here are some pictures of Elly and Mason being a little bit weird and putting money between their toes.  I don't know why they were doing it, in fact I didn't know it happened until I loaded the pictures on the computer. It turns out Jay found them doing this.  I guess it is better then chicken nuggets in their toes.  When Tyler was younger then Elly he use to put chicken nuggets in between his toes and eat them out of his toes.  Pretty sick I know.  I don't know what it is with my kids and their toes.

Easter

The Easter bunny is a very smart guy.  He brought Elly a whole bag of kisses. She had them all gone in two days.  She carried them around with her the whole time.  I have found it is easier to just let them eat it and be done with it rather than to make it last for days.  She was the happiest kid with her own chocolate.

The Easter bunny brought Mason batting gloves and his favorite treats.

Tyler also got some batting gloves, flip flops and treats.

Elly liked finding the eggs but what she really wanted was to eat her chocolate in peace, without me telling her to find the eggs.

Mason loved finding the eggs, especially the eggs with his name on them, they had money in them.

Tyler with the money that he found.  Elly did like trying to take the boys money, but Tyler knew exactly how much they each had.

Drake and Jay, I don't know what that face is all about.

Elly in her Easter dress.  This picture is not very good.  One day when she gets all ready for church again maybe I will have time to get some good pictures of her.

Dying Easter Eggs

  Here are some pictures from dying Easter eggs.  We ended up dying the Easter eggs a couple of days before Easter since we were going to be gone.  This was Elly's first really experience with dying the eggs.  She wouldn't let anybody help her and got more of the dye on her hands then on the eggs.  She was pretty sassy about it, but she had fun.

Mason has been into pulling weird faces a lot lately and so every time I would try and get a picture of him this is what I would get.

Tyler has always been very serious about dying the eggs.  He loves it and wants the kids to do it the right way.  I wonder where he gets that from.

Waiting for their eggs to change color.

After dying the eggs we had a little treat.  My kids aren't big ice cream eater so when they all wanted some I was pretty surprised.

 After ice cream they all got into pulling weird faces.

  

My cute little kids, minus Drake, with the eggs they dyed.

We all put our names on at least on eggs every year, the kids really like trying to find their egg.

Mason's egg and the egg with the family drawn on it.

Elly was to tired by this time and so she wouldn't hold her egg for me.  All she wanted was to hold her teddy.  She is my kid that asks you to put her to bed and it almost always happens right after eight if you haven't put her down by then.

My favorite eggs, I wish I would have wrote on one of the eggs "The Stilson's."  I guess there is always next year.

My littlest guy

Here are some more pictures of my little one.  The pictures never seem to really look like him to me.

This last picture seems the most like him to me.  I think he is so cute.  I wish he was a little happier.

One Month old

Drake's first month with us has gone by way to fast.  He was so good for the first few weeks, he slept and ate good, but by the fourth week he started to be really fussy in the evenings.  He spits up more then any of my kids ever have and he seems to have a belly ache about the time I need to start dinner.  The poor little guy.  I don't know how he has managed to grow since it always seems like he spits up about as much as he ate but he has grown.  He is now 9 lbs. 6 oz. and 21 1/4 inches longs, which means he grew 2 pounds and almost 2 inches.

We are loving him and have had a lot of fun with him in our home.  The boys do really well with him and Elly loves him so much it makes you nervous what she might do to him.  She definitely has those days where she is very jealous of him and all the time I spend holding him.

This little guy thinks that he is hungry all the time and if he doesn't get food fast then his fists head straight for his mouth. We just love him.  I love the way he smells right after his bath.  Since he spits up a lot that smell doesn't last very long.

He is just a little cutie.

Baseball

The boys got to play against their cousin's team.  The boys were so excited to see what team they were.  It was fun to watch them. 

Mason on first with his cousin, Wade, and his uncle Evan.  Evan was talking to my boys when they were on first and I was wondering if he was trying to distract them so they wouldn't know when to run or if he was over there helping them.  He told me he was just there to help.

Tyler on first with Wade and Evan.

Mason playing short stop.

Tyler playing third base.

Elly watched by the fence and yelled at the boys.  She tells them good job, run. get the ball and go home.  It is pretty funny to listen to her.