Thursday, October 14, 2010

Pappy's Pumpkin Patch



This little boy was determined to pick up this pumpkin.

Eldon was very concerned about what we were making him sit on.
Hay maze
Feeding the fish




They have old water pumps that you can race your ducks on.

Fall is my most favorite time of year!!! The leaves, the smell, the cool weather. What more could you ask for?
The Bell's in our ward do this pumpkin patch every year. When Don got of early one day I jumped at the chance to go. LOVE IT.

Chucky Cheese (the birthday)




For his actual birthday we went to Chucky Cheese as a family, courtesy of Grandma & Grandpa Barlow. That is their gift, going somewhere special on your birthday.
Bryson just ate it up and had lots of fun being the "birthday boy" as he called himself all day.
He loved all the gifts he got this year: his monster truck (which he slept with for a few days), rescue garage, more trio blocks, dino coloring book, dino book, puzzles (he is SO good at puzzles), Diego jeep, Avitar, Pet book and "pet" animals, active learing TV game.
Thanks to all the our family/friends that love us and bless our lives with their love!

Bryson is so cute and becoming mom's biggest helper.
He is a good eater not turning away any food except tomatoes.
His heart is so tender and he always tells me thank you for every meal I make him, every place I take him, and every book I read.
He is still the most cuddly of all the bunch loves hugs and to just sit with you.
He talks really well for his age and know a lot of stuff as we have been finding out lately. He is just more quiet about it. He knows his colors, 1-3 articles of faith, the whole name for what church he belongs to, pledge of allegiance, ABC, how to spell his name. We are working on letter recognition . . . an the list goes on.
In short we love this little boy!

THE birthday party






Bugs
Swamp Water w/ flies
Alligator eyes & hide
Worms & dirt
The invites

Bryson Scott Hughes is 3 years old!! I was not going to do a party, but I really have fun planning and doing creative fun kid stuff so . . . The cake was always back and forth, "I want a lion cake, no I want a zebra cake, no I want a snake cake." Snake cake was the cake of choice for his birthday week so that was the large cake. Just in case he changed his mind the day of, I did cupcakes that were all different animal prints, leopard, tiger, zebra, giraffe, and the brown hairy one is a lion (or whatever you want it to be). I did large cupcakes and mini ones for the littler kids. We only invited a few friends so it was not a huge party. Which was good.
Don told me not to do a "Pam" birthday party this year with a craft and planned games, they are only three and need to just play. So the "Pam" party came in the form of the dinner I feed everyone. I am sad to say I did not take a picture of the pizzas before we ate them, but they were all animal prints too, I just used the olives to makes spots for a leopard and pepperoni to make the spots for the giraffe. All the others I took pictures of. I had lots of fun and Bryson really loved it I think. He has such a creative mind, he loves pretend so this was right up his ally.