Spencer's 1st birthday FIESTA!!

It's fun having a birthday at the beginning of summer. This year the weather was great for an outside fiesta. Spencer's birthday is May 4, the day before Cinco de Mayo, so I've been planning a fiesta for the past year. We sent out chili pepper invites. I made chili pepper shirts for the boys: Ammon's said Wicked Hot, Talmage - HOT one, Garrett - Little Hottie, Spencer - Little Hot Stuff, Michael - steamy (like McSteamy from Grey's Anatomy. I think he looks like the actor who plays him) Mine - RED HOT! I even made them for the Nana & Grandma FIESTA! And our aunts had ones like Peppery, Spicy, Mild HOT, & Fiery. If you've ever met any of our aunts you could probably guess which went with who. Over all it was a fun night with quesidellas, beans, pinata, cake and ice cream. We were so excited to have mine and Michael's aunts come, and a friend of my aunts from California. We loved having Spencer's great grandparents West there with Wade. Grandpa West has a special connection with Spencer because Spencer's middle name is West. And we had had him bless Spencer last year. Plus we had friends who we consider family there with us. We love to party with the friends and family.

Garrett's Birthday

Summer activities seemed to start with Garrett's 3rd birthday party in April. He loves Little Einsteins on Disney so that was his theme. We had a great turn out with 5 kids from nursery. We had lots of fun with these little girls and boys. And best of all we had Nana & Papa Stiles, Grandma & Grandpa King and Aunt Marilynn & Aunt Karen all come up to help us celebrate. My mom helped me with the cake decorating. She is the master, but I am really picking up the creative juices on this. I've been watching the Ace of Cakes on Food Network and that is totally inspired me!! I've already started planning out Ammon's Pokeball cake!

The boys new jumpy thing

 

Michael has wanted to get the boys a trapoline for a little while. His boss Dean had one for his kids. Well his youngest is now 16 so she decided that she didn't need it anymore. So Merry Christmas boys from the DeMellos. The good and bad thing is that it is at my parents. Not like the boys would be jumping on it with all the snow anyways. They were really excited about it. Garrett was a little leary at first, but I think he's going to enjoy it.