Birthday and Temple visit...

May 15th Oliver's 6th Birthday!

I decided the day before Oliver's birthday to actually plan something. So I called two of his classmates mothers and then two neighbor boys to see if they could come over after school.

I had them bring swim suits and towels and them we did Slip-n-slide and swimming for the next two hours. After that I had them come in so we could make basketball jerseys. I just got a pack of wife beaters and fabric markers so they could draw on their own. It was hilarious because the numbers they put on them were," 300, 1007, 100,000, and 24." I loved it.

The boys loved it too because they all put them on immediately and wore them for the rest of the party.

After that, they each made their own pizzas. I just got the grands buttermilk biscuits, had them each pat one down and put tomato sauce and toppings on it. Yummy!

Oliver told me after they all went home around 7:30 that it was his best birthday EVER! Nice, because it was also the cheapest. We did BounceU last year for his fifth and that was way expensive. Plus he doesn't even remember it. This one he still talks about.

We ended the day with a trip to Cold Stone Creamery

The next morning he had a temple trip with the primary kids. Oliver loves to go to the temple and learn ab0ut Jesus. He always asks if we can go there so he can see the Christus.

He wanted me to take a picture of him there too.

Here's all the kids that came in front of the Christus. Oliver's on the left. Love that kid!

I tried to get a nice picture of the temple with just Oliver, but I was in a hurry and didn't get it centered and then other people walked into it. Still not too bad considering I took this with my camera phone.

You can never be too SAFE!

Life suit...CHECK!


Goggles, tube and floaties....CHECK, CHECK, CHECK!


Hope you all have a SAFE Memorial Day!!

I'm here...

I've been such a slacker lately it's awful. It's not that I didn't have anything to blog about, I just didn't have the time. Before I knew it there was WAAY to much to blog about and then I got discouraged. So I'm gonna try and blog them, not all of them right now but in the near future.
I'll start with:
May 6th Voices Award Ceremony

Oliver's class of 26 students wrote a book titled "If My Dad Was President" and entered it in a writing contest. Out of the 800 school that participated, Oliver's class got 1st place for their grade! It was the cutest book.

His class got to go to an awards ceremony along with all the other winners. Only one person got to go up and accept the award for their class thought and it was MY Oliver.

What a cutie! He was so excited to do it he got ready a whole hour before we were supposed to leave. Love that kid!

Here's his amazing teacher that came up with the book Idea. I just love her and all the fun things Oliver got to do this year because he was in her class.

Oliver loves her too!