Happy 3rd Birthday Briggs!!!

Briggs was so excited to have a birthday!!! For a couple of weeks before his birthday, he would tell everyone he talked to he was having a happy birthday! Then on his birthday he told me it was his happy birthday day! :) Briggs is so funny!! He was so happy all day so I know he had a great day. I think the highlights of his day were the simple things...getting birthday balloons and then going to lunch with Todd. Todd always takes our boys to lunch for their birthday and it is always their favorite.

Briggs got some pretty fun presents. It was funny watching him open presents because he was super excited about all of them and was going crazy!

Briggs had the hardest time deciding what kind of party he wanted but finally decided on a "Super Why" party. (Is that a sign he watches too much TV?!) I made some party hats and bought some birthday blow things (can't think of what they are called) and we had us a way fun time. We were all "Super Readers" in "Storybookville"! :) We started with a pizza party, then colored some "Super Why" activities I printed off, then had birthday cake.

Briggs was a little nervous about the fire on his candles but he managed to blow them out!!!

Really...my baby turning 3...this can't be happening!!!! Briggs is wild and crazy and I don't even know where to start with him. He truly has his own personality!! He is such a cute little guy that he rarely gets in trouble for all the naughty things he does...that is probably why he is so spoiled!!! He pretty much rules the roost at our house! Briggs is pretty easy going but also pretty stubborn. He has fun doing anything and is always making us laugh! Happy Birthday Briggs...I love you lots!!!!!

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I was stressed about Halloween this year because I would just be coming home from having my surgery and didn't want my boys to miss out on any Halloween fun. There was no need to worry though because it all worked out, mostly because of all the help from my mom...thanks mom!!!!! Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. I think it is so much fun and I love to hear all the ideas my boys come up with for their costumes. This is what we ended up with this year......

Pace decided he wanted to be a firefighter. This was kinda a last minute decision but I am glad. All along he said he wanted to be a steer wrestler...yes really...but changed his mind a couple days before Halloween. We were in a Halloween store and I saw Pace checking out this fireman costume. He kept walking past it and totally checking it out. So I asked him what he was looking at and he told me that he wished he could be something else for Halloween. Of course I told him he could be whatever he wanted, so he grabbed the fireman costume off the hook as fast as he could. We know Pace is a true cowboy at heart so I am glad he was something different this year. He has been something to do with cowboys for the past couple years. He was a great fireman!!! Pace got to wear his costume to school and have a little parade but we didn't get a picture. I was still in the hospital from my surgery but grandma Marshall got him all dressed up and ready...thanks grandma!!

Cosmo...where did this come from?! Jaygen was so excited to dress like Cosmo, BYU's mascot. We aren't even really BYU fans but Cosmo came to Jaygen's school a while back and he has loved him ever since. I didn't know how I was going to pull off a cougar in a BYU jersey but it turned out pretty cute. Grandma Marshall came to the rescue and sewed the hat with ears and it completed the outfit!! I thought Jaygen looked awesome and he did too...he loved it!!

Last we have Papa Smurf. Briggs is so funny!!! When Briggs finally decided he wanted to be Papa Smurf I jumped all over it. All his other ideas had to do with princesses and dresses!!!! He was the cutest Papa Smurf ever. He wore the costume for days before Halloween and for days after Halloween so I am pretty sure that he liked the costume!

Jaygen also got to wear his costume to school and they had a costume parade. He was so shy I couldn't even get him to look at us. He loved that he got to be Cosmo at school!!

One of Jaygen's highlights from this Halloween was that he got to go trick-or-treating alone with a friend. I hate that my boys are growing up so fast but at the same time I love watching them go through all the different stages. All the boys got lots and lots of candy and had a great time trick-or-treating. I have had a great time eating most of their candy!!!!

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A few weeks back we headed out on our annual trip to THE BIG RED BARN. We started this little tradition a few years back and my boys now look forward to it every Halloween. Not only do they get to hunt for their perfect pumpkin, they also get to go on a hayride!!!

I was totally kicking myself because just as we were leaving town, I remembered that I forgot my camera. We decided that it was fine and we would just use our phones to take pictures but now I wish so bad we would have went back and got it. I only got a few pictures and they aren't good...oh well...we had a super good time and that is what matters!!!

I really need to look back at our pictures from last year because I dare say that Pace has on the very same outfit. You say the word barn or tractor or anything to do with cowboys and Pace gets into full character...I love it! This year he left his chaps home, but he was decked out in all the rest of his cowboy clothes. Pace and Briggs on the hayride. Jaygen was either being grumpy or too cool and didn't want to get his picture taken.

Briggs, Pace and Jaygen standing in front of the little maze they have at the pumpkin patch. My boys had a blast in the maze. I lost count of how many times they went through it. Todd and I had fun with it too!!! We all kinda played hide-and-seek from each other...way fun!!

Pace, Jaygen, Briggs

Jaygen really wanted to take a picture of me and Todd poking our heads through the holes...he barely got me in the picture:)

Well, and that is it. I am bummed I didn't even get a picture of the boys with their pumpkins they picked. I laugh so hard every year because it is the hardest thing for them to decided what pumpkins to pick. I mean there are only hundreds of them and they all kinda look the same!! :) After a lot of debated and going back-and-forth from pumpkins, all the boys finally picked the perfect pumpkin!

The pumpkin patch also had an old tractor and truck they got to play on and a big stack of hay bales that they had fun climbing on..well Briggs danced on!! We had a good time together as a family and we got an apple cider doughnut on our way out to top it off...yummy!!