Happy Birthday Broden!

 Broden's birthday was during their fall break for school, so I made him cupcakes the last day before break, to take to his class. He wanted Halloween cupcakes with spiderwebs.

Alissa sampling a cupcake

 On Broden's birthday he wanted to have cinnamon rolls. So I made cinnamon rolls, then we made his cake and got ready for his party that night. The day before his birthday I was laying in bed and Broden and Remi came running in saying they had made Broden's birthday party list. Then they asked if they could make invitations. I said sure and away they went. They only asked 2 questions. What time was the party and what road do we live on. By the time I got up they had all the invitations made and sealed in envelopes with names on them all ready to deliver. I had no idea what they said, but didn't have the heart to open them and look, so we just delivered them and followed up with a facebook invite. It was so cute and I was proud of them for being able to do that all by themselves.

Broden's cinnamon roll and candles

Remi reading Broden his birthday card

Present from Grandma and Grandpa Jones

 Grandma and Grandpa Jones sent supplies to catch bugs and animals. Broden put them to use right away in the back yard and caught a toad we had living under our wood pile by the shed. It was pretty big. Now he says he is raising it:)

Broden's toad

For Broden's birthday party he wanted a Halloween party. So we made a Halloween cake, then we let the kids be on teams and shoot at the bats I had on the window and get points for how many they shoot. After that we played a mummy wrap game. They were in 2 teams and had to wrap 1 person on their team like a mummy, using a whole role of toilet paper. Whoever used the whole role first, won. It was pretty cute and they had fun doing it. These 2 games only took like 45 minutes, so we scrambled for another game. I had them all get a balloon and we let them stand at one end of our living room and take turns "shooting" their balloon to see who could shoot their balloon the farthest. Then we sang to Broden and let him blow out candles, opened presents while Blake cut the cake, then had cake and ice cream. It was still only about 7:20 when they got done, so we came up with another idea. We had each of them draw a picture and think of a scary story to go with it. Then we turned off the lights and let each of them tell their scary story. It was really fun and cute. I love how innocent they still are. They didn't tell bloody, gory, killing, violent stories. It was things they were scared of, like spiders, or kidnappers. Things like that. What a fun Birthday party for Broden. We are so glad he has friend and that he is such a good friend.

Halloween cake with spiders, bats, a tree and ghost

The first place team and their mummy

The second place team and their mummy

All the birthday guests

the inside of the cake

 The next day we had fun making balloon animals with the kit Broden got to make them. We had fun and had a lot of jumps from the balloons popping!

Broden's dog

Broden is such a loving boy and we are so proud of him. He has turned into such a fun boy and a good friend. His teachers told us how easily he makes friends and how he gets along with everyone. He loves sports and enjoys trying new sports. He is really good at soccer and baseball. He also enjoys playing tennis and will be starting basketball in a few weeks. His favorite food is still tator tot casserole, but he has added some new favorites too. He likes spaghetti carbanara, spicy chicken and shrimp, rice, and barbecue chicken. He also likes most fruits and vegetables. At church Broden loves to sing. He will always sing as loud as he can if he knows the song and everyone loves it:) He loves to talk about teaching people about Jesus and knows he can go on a mission when he is 18. Broden also loves praying. He says the most thoughtful prayers. It used to be whatever he could see he would list as what he is thankful for. Like the plates, spoons, bowls, table, chairs, mirrors etc. Now he really thinks and lists very thoughtful things he is thankful for and asks for help with things or prays for others. His prayers have brought tears to my eyes more than once. We love our Broden and are so happy that he is 6!