Tanner's "Batman" Birthday Party

The picture's are in the wrong order, but here is his party.

His actual Birthday pictures will be up after his birthday!

The boys decorating their own ice cream cone cupcake. They all did a pretty good job too!

His presents
Opening the presents.
Every kid pretty much opened the present they brought and showed Tanner. He didn't seem to mind and they all had a fun time looking at the presents.
Throwing the "bat plane" into the "Bat Cave".
This actually turned out better than I had expected it to. They all probably would have been fine playing it the whole time! Definitely a HIT!

The Batman's.

Tanner is the one masked... I should have taken it off so you could see his face!

The invitation... this one is a little crooked...annoying!

Tanner personally delivered the invites to his friends wearing his Spiderman outfit with his Batman cape over it and Batman mask. He ran to each house so the cape would fly up in the wind. It was too cute.... unfortunately I did not have my camera to take a picture.

So on Saturday the 15th we had a birthday party for Tanner. And he wanted it to be "Batman" themed. I made a list of kids to invite and there was way to many. So I asked him who HE wanted to invite and he came up with six boys. So I went with his list instead since it was for him after all.

When they arrived each boy got their own Batman cape. We had them play a few games of "Throw Batman's plane into the Bat cave", "Shine the flashlight on the Batman symbol" after we spun them a few times and they closed their eyes (in the dark). It went okay. They decorated cupcakes, opened presents, played with some balloon's, and went home. Tanner had a blast with his buddies and I think they all has a pretty good time too!

"I love you Grandpa"

Grandpa Roe and me at my wedding reception
Grandpa, Tanner, me, and Grandma in the St. George hospital in April.

Grandpa and Tanner

Grandpa in the Panguitch 24th of July parade 2008

Wilford "Earl" Roe

December 28, 1922- November 10, 2008

I received a phone call yesterday saying my Grandpa Roe had passed away. I was in shock at first but then relieved. It was his time to go. This past year was like taking 10 years off his life, he was getting bad fast. My uncle and his fiance' died at a young age and I am sure they were waiting for him on the other side along with my grandpa's parents. But I will miss him until we meet again.

Some of my favorite memories of him....

His witty personality. He could joke and keep a straight face for a minute, then a smile would stretch across his face letting me know he was joking! Listening to him whistle all of the time. You always knew he was coming around a corner because you could hear his little whistle. When I was little he had a box full of beautiful diamond rings (fake of course) and would let me and the other granddaughters pick one to take home every time we went to visit. I still have many of them! He made the BEST fried rainbow trout. He could always get every bone out. Watching him and my grandma waltz. Him getting on anybody for throwing food or a good used piece of tin foil away because it was wasteful. :) I really could go on and on about how he was or what he did. But those who knew him best, I'm sure have the same memories.

I was able to talk to him the day before he died and some of the last words he told me were, "I hope you know I love ya."

"I do Grandpa, and I love you too!"

Fun at home

New costume after Halloween!

We went to buy Tanner a Batman costume with all the Halloween sales but there was not a one in sight. So we bought him a "Knight" costume that I'm sure he enjoys just as much as he would have Batman. He has worn it for the past 3 days now, and keeps telling us stories about how there is a dragon blowing fire and he rides his horse so fast "du dum du dum du dum" and gets it with his sword. That is just one of his stories.

I remember coming up with crazy stories when I was a kid. But he has a new one every 5 minutes, and if he isn't telling you one, he's wanting you to tell him one about: a witch, a skeleton, a ghost, a dragon, Dracula, a knight. A tell you what.... reading the annoyingly long Disney movie books is better than coming up with a story. IT IS HARD! I am so not creative anymore. I was proud of myself with the first couple of stories... then my mind shut down. I am proud of his creativity and amazing imagination! Hopefully he won't grow up to fast!

For about 5 minutes I had peace and quite with all three boys asleep... buuut Benson woke up and then these two did shortly after! Those 5 minutes were heaven though!

Benson finally relaxing after screaming for at least 15 minutes straight and on and off all day!

Getting better, rolling over a couple of times

Getting ready for the pounce!

HALLOWEEN!!!!

Halloween Party Andrew and I went to that night.

Our skeleton named Ike, he greets our neighbors
So Halloween morning I (or should I say Tanner) babysat the twins Ruby and Lily. Tanner thought he was quite the babysitter. They were heading for the kitchen when he didn't think that is where they should be going and grabbed them saying, "Stay in here, no no, HELP MOM, stay in here!" It was too funny I had to take a picture. They just looked at him like "whatever" I told him it was ok that they went. He let go and just sat there as he watched them crawl away!

The Family
This is our old neighbor David Bailey. He had his candy bowl in the doorway with the coyote head leaning over the bowl with string tied to it. So when Tanner went to get a piece David made the coyote jump, Tanner jumped back and was not getting near it. Finally after showing Tanner it wasn't alive he took a piece of candy! It was pretty funny!

The boys

"Benson BOO" covered in slobber

My cute cowboy

Tanner in his secret hiding place/fort.
AKA in the bushes on the side of our house.

Spooooooooky!

Tanner and I carved his "scary Dracula" and my scared face

Botanical Garden's Halloween Party

The Lauritzen's Botanical Garden's invited our complex over for a Halloween Party, Benson was kind of sleepy so Andrew stayed home with him and me and Tanner went together.

Tanner showing off his witches broom he made

Shooting the giant fish hanging

Tanner and Mommy

Singing time Halloween party

My little Cowboy and Indian
Tanner putting the spider on the web
On October 29th we went to the Halloween Party for singing time. It was fun to really get to see a lot of the kids costumes and to let them show off theirs. Besides singing some Halloween songs, there was also games and treats at the end.

Tanner and neighbor Megan

"Yeehaa"

The group

Benson in the little Indian costume I made. Who knew I would ever make a scrunchy for my boys head? In this case.... it's a head band!

Benson and Mommy!

Thanks for the picture Tanner.

Fall Break day 4-weekend

Because of the weather and us already seeing a ton of stuff. We didn't do much else going out besides our occasional Shadow Lake shopping center visit ending with Fat Burger and their yummy chocolate milk shakes!
Tanner, Benson, and mom were glad to have Daddy to themselves for a week though. It was a nice break for all of us. Dad from school and help with the kids for mom! I am counting down the days until Thanksgiving and Christmas break!

Fall Break day 3, Oct. 22nd

Wednesday morning we went to the once a week Singing Time at the club house.
Then we had lunch and headed to the Children's Museum.
I helped Tanner paint a football on his face.

Benson and Mommy in the Haunted Castle

Tanner and Daddy

Tanner and a mummy in coffins

This is a boat/tractor/helicopter that Tanner has to play in every time we go to the OCM.

Fall Break day 2, Oct. 21st

A butterfly landed on Tanner in the butterfly exhibit at the zoo, he was curious about it but let it hang out.
After about 5 minutes of looking around, it was still hanging out on his jacket. We were ready to leave and I had tried shaking it off and it wasn't going anywhere. That's when Tanner started to freak... luckily it decided to finally fly away.

In "Kingdom of the Nights", by the picture you can't tell how dark it really is in there. Tanner was scared for me to set him down.
Don't get to close.

Handsome little devil!

Benson keeping warm as it started to rain.

After the zoo and the weather turning rainy. Andrew busted out his childhood race track. After messing with tinfoil and some major skills. He got it to work. Tanner and Daddy spent the rest of the day making new tracks and racing the one car he has around it!