Pre Christmas Joys!

We have been in full swing with our Christmas celebrations! 

 Crafts, parties, books, cookies, movies, songs, etc.....

Here's my boys all playing with their building blocks.   They are into blocks right now.  Levi loves to eat them.   Joel loves to make robot birthday cakes with them.   And Clark makes robots and cars.   Here's a little secret: they are getting  Legos for Christmas!!!  I know they will love it.  I just have to figure out a way to stop Levi from eating them all.

 This will be Levi's first Christmas!  Hard to believe.  It feels like he's been part of our family always.

Levi loves to eat the Christmas lights. 

Several times, I have caught him with the bulb disconnected and in his mouth.  Scary.

Here's our cookies we made yesterday during our party.  The kids had fun cutting and decorating their cookies.  And by the way, royal icing is the easiest to use because it dries out and can be transported without a huge mess.

A Creative Way to Use Gummies

My son found a new way to use gummies--ear plugs.

Joel's Firefighter Birthday

My little hero turned three. He wanted a firefighter party for his third birthday.  So we whipped out a fire truck cake and some fiery decorations!

We had Firefighter Mike come and talk to the kids about fire safety.  The children learned how to call 911 and stop, drop, cover, and roll.  They all earned their honorary firefighter hats after.

 We worked together as a team just like firefighters and collected loose balloons in a balloon game.

 We played Hot Potato with a hot "potato sock". 

Afterwards, we had smokin' hot dogs and five alarm chili for lunch.

Happy Birthday to a little boy who I would not be surprised grows up to be a fire fighter,  police officer, or soldier.  He has a strong spirit and heart to serve.

Firefighter axe!!! 

Fall Fun!

Fall is the Loftons favorite time of year.  Apples, pumpkins, leaves, sweaters, chai tea, chili, fires in the fireplace, trick-or-treating, chilly cold winds are just some our favorite things.

Here's Joel and Levi enjoying the leaf pile!!  Levi also had a leaf snack while he was there.

Clark is into climbing trees now.  Broken bones are soon to follow. :-)

The boys love being pushed by daddy on the swing set.

The view from our backyard is so amazing to me.  I love the colors and mountains so much.

Joel is having a ball digging out pumpkin seeds. Put that boy to work, and he's happy!

The boys and their pumpkin this year.

 Clark thought it was gross and backed off immediately.

The boys and I planned a pizza theme birthday for Michael with a pizza from Papa Johns and a chocolate chip cookie pizza cake too.  The boys had fun making fondant mushrooms, peppers, pepperonis and decorating the cake!