My BIG 7 year old!!!

Well, it was Jaden's 7th birthday yesterday. I can't believe he's that old already!!! We had a great time. Guy and I picked up Happy Meals (quite the treat for them!) and dropped them off at Guy's parent's home. We let Jaden pick anywhere he wanted to go and eat dinner, just the three of us. He was so excited to be with us by himself. Jaden picked Sizzler, he loves to go there and get the salad bar because that way he "doesn't have to wait for his food." When we got there, he didn't know who he wanted to sit by and asked if we all could fit on one side of the booth!!! After we were done eating we let our waitress know it was Jaden's b-day and a couple of the waitresses started singing him Happy Birthday and before long the whole restaurant was singing to him! It was pretty funny, Jaden thought it was cool.

After we picked up the other kids we went back home and opened his presents and had cake and ice-cream. When he opened the gift from my parents, he got so excited he had to sing and do a little dance as he jumped around saying "YES!!!". They had gotten him a SpongeBob game for the Wii that the kids got for Christmas.

I'll have to post some pictures after I get them onto the computer. Maybe I'll even post a video of his reaction to that present!

Anyway, I just can't believe my kids are growing up so fast! Today was Kaylee's last day in the nursery at church. I'm going to have three kids in primary! CRAZY!!!

Christmas is approaching......

.... and so is the end of the semester - which comes with projects and finals. It has been tiring ever since we got back from Seattle for Thanksgiving.... finally starting to ease up a bit. I've had paper after test after paper after test!!!! Anyway, I'll be glad when the semesters over (only to start a new one!!!).

I am getting so excited for Christmas! The kids are just going to be so much fun this year, they are at great ages... plus, their presents are going to be awesome! The kids went and saw Santa - three times! We went and saw him once and got the kids picture taken with him, then we saw him at our ward's Christmas Party, then we went and saw him in town... at night... in freezing weather... so they could see Mrs. Claus, too. It was fun, the kids had a good time, anyway. I'm not so sure we'll do it again next year!
This is a picture of the kids with the first Santa we saw: By the way, Jaden is now noticing that the Santas are not the same person.....


On a sad note, I found out a couple of days ago, that my grandpa is in the hospital with a progressive lung disease. They don't know exactly how long he'll live with it. It could range from days to months. I've always thought of my grandpa as invincible.... he is 93, though. He's a wonderful man, can't wait till he's out of the hospital to go visit!