Ride that bull!

Alia this morning eating her waffles on our birthday plate. Her shirt has little cupcakes all over it. We thought it was fitting. :)

We ate dinner tonight at Big Bubba's. Yes, I rode the bull. Enough said.

Alia's friend Jenna (and her mom and dad) had dinner with us. They had a lot of fun playing in the tree house. They worked up a sweat, that's for sure!

Happy Birthday Alia!

Today my little girl turns 5! It's so hard to believe that she's already 5 years old! Such a big girl she is. I still clearly remember the day she was born...what a day it was.

On Sunday we had a little birthday party for Alia at the Build A Bear store. She had so much fun with her little girlfriends. It was fun to watch them.

Here's Alia with her new little bunny.

Since we were having her party at Build A Bear I decided to put bear heads on Alia's cupcakes. I made these out of candy melts...they were so fun to make. The frosting ended up melting off so on Sunday morning I had to do a quick fix em up...so for her party the frosted ended up being brown-which I didn't like as much. The white makes the bear heads pop so much more. :)

And, here are my boys. :) Please excuse the pacifier...Ethan hadn't slept very long so he was sleepy.

Here are all the kids listening well and getting ready to make their animals.

Characters!

Goofy's Kitchen!

We met my parents at Goofy's Kitchen in the Disneyland Hotel before we went ot Disneyland for Elijah's Bday. It was so much fun to have personal one on one time with a good amount of the characters.

Here are the big kids with the star of the show, Goofy.

They sang ot Elijah and he got a special cupcake and an "It's my birthday" button. He actually got another button when we went to get him his annual pass. He wore one the next day when we were at Disneyland and it was great! People were saying "Happy Birthday Elijah" all day long and he felt so special. During the parade one of the singers on a float even noticed the button and told him happy birthday over the microphone! So special! :)

Ethan even enjoyed the characters! Well, their noses, at least. :) He grabbed their noses and was trying to get them into his mouth. He loved looking at all the characters.

At the entrance to the hotel.



Here we all are with Pluto. I'm not so sure when Goofy doesn't do this picture...since it's Goofy's Kitchen. But I guess if he stood here the whole time he couldn't be in the restaurant roaming the tables. I think they do a rotation for this pic.

Ethan's Dedication

Ethan Oscar Backlund was dedication to Jesus on May 31st. Since Jason's the pastor, he got to dedicate him.

Ethan is doing really well. He's sitting up all by himself and he loves that. The other kids do, too. He is almost crawling...he's trying so hard. but he can move all over! He rolls and pushes himself to get to what he wants. He spend lots of time in the crawl position rocking back and forth...and trying to get somewhere :) He does have a bit of reflux-just like Alia & Elijah...so he spits up quite a bit. Some days are better than others. He has some meds for it but I'm a bit leery of them because of how groggy they made Elijah when he was a baby. So long as he's gaining weight and doesn't seem like he's in pain, I'm not too worried. It's more trouble for the carpet and mommy & daddy's clothes! and the couch...and, well, whatever the spit up lands on! :)

OH! He finally is saying "mamamamamama"!! Yeah! I love hearing that. He's also said "dadadada" and lots of other sounds. He loves it when his brother and sister play with him. He's all smiles and giggles lots.

He's 3!!

Elijah turned 3 on May 31st. Hard to believe he's 3!! Here are a few pics.

Here's Elijah at Gramma Barb and Grampa Jim's house. He loves his new baseball T!

Vroom Vroom! Grandma and Grandpa B sent Elijah a Big Wheel! Have you ever seen anything like this? He loves it, although he's not quite tall enough to reach the pedal :( But one day he'll be "that cute boy on the fancy big wheel". :) All the girls will have eyes for him. teehee

He got to eat his breakfast on our special BDay plate. He's showing you 3 fingers-that's how he says how old he is.


We had a little birthday party for him. He had a good time with his little 3 year old friends.

He had a dinosaur party...so here was his cupcake cake. Can you see the T-Rex? :) He really liked his dinosaur party.

Happy birthday to our little boy! We love you very much!

Alia's Graduation!

On May 21st Alia graduation from preschool. It was a very proud moment for Jason and I! They had a ceremony that evening in the high school auditorium and it was PACKED!!! The three classrooms sang songs from up front-too cute. Then they each got their diploma. Afterwards we met some friends for ice cream to celebrate. I can't believe little Alia is a Kindergartner!

The proud family.

Alia and Celeste. She is one of Alia's good friends from the past 2 years. They really enjoy each other.

Eating ice cream afterwards. They were making silly faces.



Alia with one of her teachers. I was bummed about the lighting for the pic.

Alia and Haley...best friends. They won't be going to kindergarten together but they will still be best friends! :)