Chaz's 1 year Stats

So for all of you who have just been dying to know here are a few of Chaz's 1 year stats.

Chaz is 20.4 lbs. and 29 inches Tall.

He is walking and he says a few words. Dada, moma, and Stop it. I guess I tell my boys to stop it a lot but atleast it's not no. Chaz adores Drew still and anytime Drew shows him any attention Chaz is thrilled. Chaz loves to blow raspberries on my tummy, he thinks he's really cute. He has a bad temper though and I can already tell he's very stubborn. Dispite his temper he is a really happy baby and we have loved watching him grow and change this past year. He's a momas boy most of the time but he's all smiles for Kjell when he comes home from work.

Chaz loves to be outside and in the mud!

He loves making messes and showing off. He has figured out that when someone is behind the camera it's time for him to smile. When we put glasses on him he loves the attention we all give him by laughing at him and he laughs right along with us. We call him Harry Potter Baby.

Chaz's First Birthday Party

We had a party for Chaz on Saturday, even though he didn't turn one officially until today(I will post stats later). We had so much fun celebrating with friends and family. I can't believe my baby is ONE! Well time for another I guess, now if I could only convince Kjell.

Blowing Out Candles and Birthday Cake!

Friends and Family

It was so hot on Saturday I think everyone was happy to go swimming! Here are some pictures of the friends and family who came to help us celebrate!

The Party

Here are some pictures of the food and decorations, we went with an animal theme. My friend Angie let me borrow her Cupcake cake pan for Chaz's cake. My friends and family helped me so much with ideas, decorations, cleaning, and taking my kids so I could get it all together. I am so lucky to have such good friends and family thank you all!!

Opening Presents

Chaz got lots of great gifts but I think Drew had more fun opening the presents!

Fire Truck

The Fresno Firemen came to Drew's preschool today and the kids had such a great time learning from them. They taught them how to stop, drop, and roll. Teacher Jodie even got to put on the fireman's suit! Drew looks like a pro to me but as we drove home when I asked if he wanted to be a fireman when he grows up he assured me he still wants to be Captain Jack Sparrow!

Mother's Day Luncheon

So my sister gave me this great idea, to throw a lunch for my friends to celebrate being moms. I had lots of fun planning, I love doing parties! (Kjell teases about the time and money I spend, plus the help he always ends up giving) So I tried to make it simple. We just had a lite lunch and some fancy desserts. Thank you Kjell for making your creme brulee everybody loved it! I also want to thank everyone who helped me including Becky for all the ideas and recipes. I wanted to share some quotes with my friends about mothers and how much I love and appreciate them in my life because of the example they are to me and the support they all give me. I also gave out the booklet "In The Arms Of His Love". (Thanks for picking it up Marilyn)It's a talk given by President Hinckley. It's about Relief Society and how as women we should support each other, offer service, sacrifice, and love. Here are a few of my favorite Quotes that I shared.

"You have walked the sometimes painful, sometimes joyous path of parenthood. You have walked hand in hand with God in the great process of bringing children into the world that they might experience this estate along the road of immortality and eternal life. It has not been easy rearing a family. Most of you have had to sacrifice and skimp and labor night and day. As I think of you and your circumstances, I think of the words of Anne Campbell, who wrote as she looked upon her children:You are the trip I did not take;You are the pearls I cannot buy;You are my blue Italian lake;You are my piece of foreign sky.("To My Child," quoted in Charles L. Wallis, ed., The Treasure Chest [1965], 54)You sisters are the real builders of the nation wherever you live, for you have created homes of strength and peace and security. These become the very sinew of any nation." -Gordon B. Hinckley

"If you try your best to be the best parent you can be, you will have done all that a human being can do and all that God expects you to do."There are some lines attributed to Victor Hugo which read:"'She broke the bread into two fragments and gave them to her children, who ate with eagerness."'She hath kept none for herself,' grumbled the sergeant."'Because she is not hungry,' said a soldier."'No,' said the sergeant, 'because she is a mother.'" - Jeffrey R. Holland

"She who bears the title to that sweetest word ever lisped by human lips, that most loved, most sacred appellation ever coined in speech, that holy, precious word—Mother.... Especially is this so when she who bears this sacred title is herself as sweet and clean and pure as the very spirits which quicken the bodies of the living souls which she brings into the world. When Mother is good, she is better than gold or precious gems! When she is as true as the fixed stars and as clear as the moon and as bright as the sun, the highest type of motherhood!" — Joseph Fielding Smith

"Like the woman who anonymously, meekly, perhaps even with hesitation and some embarrassment, fought her way through the crowd just to touch the hem of the Master's garment, so Christ will say to the women who worry and wonder and sometimes weep over their responsibility as mothers, "Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole."12 And it will make your children whole as well." — Jeffrey R. Holland

Thanks to everyone for coming, we missed you all who couldn't make it! I also want to thank all of the husbands who put up with me harassing them to write letters that I could give to their wives and watching the children so we could have a break. I might make it an annual event but that might take some convincing of Kjell.