Our Family: Happy 6th Birthday Kippy boy...

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December 20, 2015

Happy 6th Birthday Kippy boy...

Cant believe you are 6...SIX...wow, stop it right now!
This year you wanted a NERF party so we bought nerf guns and make nerf invites for your friends and made a nerf cake...which was soooo cute!

You had a fun birthday party this year...we invited your friends to the aquatic center for some nerf gun fights and pizza and cake then it was on the swimming.
I loved seeing how happy you were that day. You had been counting down the days til your birthday...i had wrapped up some presents and put them under the tree for your birthday
and you were dying because you had to wait over a week to open them, you kept saying "when is my half birthday"...you kept getting confused about what the half birthday means hahaha!
You got to celebrate your birthday TWICE...once with friends and then again with the family, since your real date fell on a sunday. Dad woke up on your real date and made you his number pancake that he makes all you boys each birthday, then you get to put what ever you want on it and have a candle in it!! Dad looks forward to doing that each year for you boys!

we are sure blessed to have you in our family...without you we would get to hear crazy stories and laugh our butts off....we also wouldnt have anyone getting hurt all the time!

Kaylin's Funnies!

set up: nick and kaylin are playing video games.

"your not very good dad, you should let me show you how to do it"

"Iam really snart, i know stuff " (snart: meaning smart)

set up: kaylin wants to sleep in our bed.

"kaylin you need to sleep in your own big boy bed"

"but that is my 3 year old bed and I'm 4 so now I can sleep in this bed with you. its a 4 year old bed"

set up: kiptin pulled the filter off the vacume and I couldn't figure out how to put it back on.

"oh mom why did you take this off, let me fix it"

"no kaylin leave it alone, let daddy fix it"

"I can do it...see mom, fixed"

(a very stupid mom moment for sure...its sad when your 4yr old is smarter then you)

“One’s life….cannot be both faith-filled and stress-free….Therefore, how can you and I really expect to guide naively through life, as if to say, ‘Lord, give me experience, but not grief, not sorrow, not pain, not opposition, not betrayal, and certainly not to be forsaken. Keep from me, Lord, all those experiences which made Thee what Thou art! Then let me come and dwell with Thee and fully share Thy joy!’ Real faith….is required to endure this necessary but painful developmental process.” Neal A. Maxwell