For quite a while now Hunter has only talked about two things, his birthday and his love of Transformers. This kid LOVES Transformers and there has been evidence of it all around the house. Let me show you some examples:SCENARIO #1: One morning he asked if he could have one of Deke's old shoe boxes to play with. About ten minutes later I went in his room and he told me to "watch this" as he TRANSFORMED the box from this position:
to this position!!! Then proceeded to just as quickly transform it back into a box. I was floored at how inventive his little mind is and the creativity that he often possesses.
SCENARIO #2: One day Hunter was playing legos in his room and I walked in to find this....
His lego formed Transformers. I thought they were so cute I had to take some pictures of them.
SCENARIO #3: Hunter decided that he wanted to have a Transformer birthday party and so I bought all the necessary supplies. The next morning I wondered why he was sleeping so long until I went into his room and saw this little montage on his wall...
Yes, those are stickers all over his wall. The stickers that I was going to be using on the invitations of course.
SCENARIO #4: This is the final evidence that a birthday party is coming and a love for Transformers has fully been developed. The birthday invitations:
I will try to post in the next few days about his actual day. I am about two weeks behind on posting so beware for a mass posting to be coming soon including: our family olympics, a visit from our best friends the Grants, and some very cute five year old pics of Hunter.
I had my little foot bath out and Hunter and Avery were curious so I decided to let them play with it. First Avery put her feet in and Hunter scrubbed her feet and toes and then they traded and Avery scrubbed his. 
They made a huge, slippery mess but it was sweet to see them playing together and listen to them giggling. Lastly, a couple of weeks ago a family from the preschool gave me some tickets to take our family to see "Robosaurus."
It is a huge Robotic T-Rex that breathes fire and eats and crushes cars, exactly what an almost five year old little boy would love to do on a Friday night. It was really neat it came out and growled and blew fire and picked up three cars and ate them. 
The whole time Hunter kept saying "Whoa mom, look how cool!" and Avery (wide eyed and scared to death) would scream every time it growled.
It was a fun thing to get to do as a family and pretty crazy to watch it totally demolish the cars. We also got to see some racing which was interesting for us but not so much for the kids. It was funny to see the kids wearing their little ear plugs.
After the party each of the grandkids had prepared a talent and we did a talent show for them. Hunter did a little break dancing since he has recently told us that he is "headed to Vegas after preschool to be on So You Think You Can Dance." Avery did a little dancing herself as well as some of her famous version of push ups. 
My family is so It was a very special, emotional weekend for me. I had so much fun laughing and visiting with everyone. I could not stop thinking about how much life happens in fifty years. I think of everything that has happened in my marriage after only six years and marvel at the journey of that many years together. 
My grandparents have seen and been through so much and yet have still walked together side by side through it all. In a world where it seems as if no one stays married for very long anymore it is refreshing to have good examples to look at. To see them sitting next to each other holding hands and reflect on their journey to this point was very touching for me. I love them very much, look up to them, and am enjoying my own journey. Hopefully we will be back in contact with the computer world soon. 
Hunter was absolutely enthralled and I cracked up getting pictures of him eating his first hot dog at a game he chowed down.
He was so excited that three fly balls came into our section and loved it when everyone stood up and tried to catch them. He was convinced that one almost came right to him. Avery was amazingly good through almost all of the game and sat and snacked.
When they opened the roof of the stadium she kept looking up and saying "oh wow" over and over again and pointing, it was funny. It was a really fun thing to go do as a family and I can't wait to go again. 
It is the only time I like cats is as babies and will never own one. It wouldn't eat for me so Deke because the official feeder and feed it every couple of hours when it would start crying. He would wrap Jaguar in a blanket just like a baby and sure enough he would lap it up. 
I couldn't find any shelter that would take him and not put him to sleep. Deke and I couldn't handle the thought of something so new to the world leaving it so soon so we ended up caring for it for a few days. We finally found a shelter that said they would nourish it until they found an adoptive home for him. Hunter was so cute with him, he would talk to him and pet him and was so concerned about him. 
When it came time to take Jaguar to the shelter there was not a single dry eye in our car and it was a very sweet experience for us to watch our children love and nuture this little animal. When we are ready I think we are going to be great pet owners... of a dog that is :)
I can't believe that 
We had a great anniversary and were able to have my cousin Kristal take some photos of us which was really fun. She did a great job, these haven't even been edited yet, you should see how cool they look when she edits them. 
It was so nice for us to reflect on our lives together so far and talk about the dreams and goals we have yet to come. 
We are grateful to have had six wonderful years together, four wonderful kids, and look forward to what things will be in store for us this year!
We feel very blessed to have each other and be growing together. 
I know that life is going to continue to fly by us so fast with joys and growing experiences and I am glad that we are trying to slow it down, take it all in, and be in the moment. 
