Tanner turns NINE!

Every year I say I won't go crazy with throwing birthday parties for the boys, but somehow we end up going all out for their birthdays! Last night we had Grandma and Grandpa Edwards, Cory and Kristen's family, and Ryan and Karen over after priesthood session to help us eat Tanner's birthday cake.
Does he look excited or what? Tanner got a new bike this year (he looked so silly trying to ride his old little bike). I need to get a picture of him riding it! He can hardly wait to ride it to school with his friends
Tanner really, really wanted a dog for his birthday, but I really, really didn't want one. He lucked out and got two dogs for his birthday! One from his friend, then one from Cory and Kristen that snores when you tug his ear. These kind of dogs are my kind of dogs!
Tanner had a friend party on Friday afternoon, it was a sports party. Our backyard was perfect for it and the weather cooperated long enough for the kids to play non-stop outside! They had a blast playing football, basketball, doing an obstacle course, and an sports egg hunt. Of course the highlight of the party was when our neighbor started throwing water balloons over the fence.

We all went to dinner to celebrate Tanner's birthday at his favorite resturant, Tepanyakis. YUM! Our kids have been begging to go here since Christmas. We invited Ryan and Karen to meet us too. They are always fun to have around.

The highlight of the meal for the boys are their noodles. I personally love, love, love their salad dressing and the salmon is like candy. My mouth is watering just thinking about it!
The chef was so fun to watch. Mckay told him, "thanks for the show!" when we were done.

I also took treats into Tanner's class to celebrate his birthday. I am laughing at this picture because the cute little girl in the background is the one of the many girls that have a crush on Tanner. Isn't 9 to young for that? Apparently not, because he seems to have lots of little admirers I hear about.

ApRiL fOoLs!

The boys this year really got into the spirit of April Fools and pulled some "funny" practical jokes on us. It started as I tried to walk in the house yearly that morning after running and couldn't open the door because of the furniture that was pushed up against the door. When I got in, I found that all of our furniture in the family room (up and downstairs) was down the hallway. After I got the boys out the door for school, I went into the bathroom to get ready and discovered toothpaste all over in our sinks and faucets. No the jokes didn't stop there. We had vaseline on our toilet seats (thanks Bryson) and vaseline on the door handles (thanks Mckay) and more toothpaste in our sinks all day (thanks to Garrett). The boys are already planning attacks for next year.

I decided I had to get back at the boys, so...
my friend gave me a great idea and I quickly put it together before the boys got home! They were so excited that Mom had made them an earlier Easter treat!

They were very surprised when they couldn't cut through the cake and saw it was toilet paper. So the last laugh was on them! We then decided to take a couple of cakes around to their friends...

Oh, I also got them again when I told them we all had to go with Dad to a long scout meeting in Provo. They had to sit quietly and they would be serving hot dogs (the boys hate hot dogs). They were fooled when we took them to Tepanyaki Grill for Tanner's upcoming birthday dinner. What a fun day, I am nervous to see what the boys will do next year...