I can't believe my first born is now 5! The time has gone by so fast and he has grown to be quite a mart little boy and so much fun. We love having Samuel as our son and he has taught us many things as he has grown. So this post is to him, not that he can read yet but I thought it would be fun. His birthday was the 17th of January and he wanted a party so I let him plan his own party. He had a bean bag toss, a pinata, and played pin the tail on the donkey. He had a blast.
He wanted me to put Happy Birthday Sasafrats on his cake because I call him sasafrats or sas as a nickname.
Here is a picture of the house decorated. He colored a couple hundred pieces of paper green and taped them together to pretend they were grass. He is a crazy kid.
I didn't get any good pictures of the bean bag toss but here he is getting ready to pin the tail on the donkey.
Here he is before with his pinata he picked out.
Here is what was left. I took the final swing to brake open the head after the kids smashed the body.
Samuel with his gifts. Here is what was left. I took the final swing to brake open the head after the kids smashed the body.I thought it would be fun to post pictures of the last 5 years of Samuel's life so here they are. 
Samuel on his 4th birthday.
Samuel on his 4th birthday.
Samuel on his 3rd birthday.
Samuel on his 2nd birthday.
Samuel on his 1st birthday.
Samuel the night he was born.
Samuel is a great kid and I can't believe how fast he has grown up. We are alot alike so we are good buddies. I am excited to see what he will accomplish in the future.
James was blessed on the 28th so my parents could attend. The outfit he is wearing is what Will wore when he was blessed over 30 years ago. All out boys have worn this outfit. After his blessing some family came back to our home for muffins and fruit. It is always fun and special to share these kind of events with family and I was grateful that my parents were able to come. More pics of the special day...
On Christmas Eve we read "God Bless Your Way". We read Luke 2 for FHE on Moday and I love that book so I read i to the family. We decided to let the boys have a Christmas Eve presrnt this year. The boys all got slippers as their Christmas Eve present.
Christmas morning was fun as the boys opened their gifts and got to have their Papa & Gramoo with them. At the request of Will I made cinnamon rolls and bacon for breakfast. We just kinda hung out and played the Wii throughout the day since Will got me that for Christmas. Samuel is the champion boxer in our house. Hope you all had a great Christmas and a Happy New Year.
