Kids fall pictures

 Kaiden

 

 Nicolas

 

 Luke

 

 Afton

 

 Makensi

 

Garrett

Happy Birthday, Afton!

Cute, cute Afton. I can't believe you are 6 years old! Where has the time gone? You are such an independent little girl now who is trying to teach herself how to read. You love being a big sister and want to "mother" every baby you see, little or not. Your favorite colors are purple and pink and you love princesses. But your favorite Disney character is Goofy because he makes you laugh. You are an excellent artist and love to draw pictures and write notes to people. You love to give hugs and can almost always be found sitting on someone's lap. Your favorite foods right now are Mac-N-Cheese and hot dogs and pretty much anything sweet that you can get your hands on. You are so mischievous that you keep us constantly on our toes and guessing at what you will come up with next. We love you so much! Happy Birthday!

newborn

a couple of days old. You were our first girl, so we dressed you in pink constantly.

your big brothers were excited to have a baby sister even though we had them convinced that we were going to name you
Afton-boxdudderdox-berkhummer-snu.

cute, cute smile

1 year old

almost 2 years old

3 years old w/ your favorite kitty at Grandma's house


4 years old

5 years old

last month at the Mt. Timpanogos temple. You are such a big girl!

Healthy candy...

Afton and Luke told me that they have decided to "only eat healthy food for a whole month. Healthy candy...healthy cookies...healthy fruit..."!

They are definitely kids after my own heart! Maybe we need a few more lessons on the definition of "healthy".

A Pegasaurus

Afton just told me that she wants a flying horse - "a PEGASAURUS"!

Afton's 5 year stats

Afton had her 5 year check up this week. She is doing great.
She is 45.8 inches tall and 45.4 lbs.

I knew that she would have to have some immunization and had her talked into 2 shots but as they reviewed her shot record she needed 5 shots! Yikes! She wasn't behind, I guess 4 is the normal amount for this age but now they do a chicken pox booster as well. She was relatively brave and only cried a little bit. Her melodrama was in full play the whole way home, but she finally decided that she would live after I gave her a pile of candy for her pain.
Yeah...I'm a good mom!

Afton's 5th Birthday!!!

Afton turned 5 last week! She has been telling everyone for 6 months, "tomorrow is my birthday" and people say Happy Birthday and then I have to let them know that tomorrow is NOT her birthday! Finally her birthday arrived and she would not let us forget about it for the whole week before. She told me every night, "don't let dad forget to decorate for my birthday".

Not only did dad decorate, but he made her this beautiful sign to hang up.

Here she is eating her birthday breakfast of cinnamon rolls at her new Princess table.

She got this new dress for her birthday. She looks SO grown up now! She got the crown when they celebrated her birthday at church. (Yes, she is wearing her Crocs with her dress...it's summer and it's hot...get over it!) :)

Here she is opening her presents.

Her cake this year was supposed to be a ice cream cake. But we decided that brownies would be better than cake, so it was a brownie/ice cream cake. Little did we know at the time that brownies don't make very good ice cream cakes because the brownie freezes solid as a rock LONG before the ice cream refreezes. It was a little messy, but it tasted GREAT! And anything looks better when garnished with a strawberry fan! :)

Bathing Beauties

Two bathing beauties. Afton had been out in the sun and got a little burned. A bath felt great!