So, one night, I was starting on a migraine, so I went to bed early, like 5PM early! And Toph took over the parental responsibilities. And this is Lorelei enjoying dessert of pudding.
Leaves me the SWEETEST notes. Ever.
I may have cried when I read this note.
To the worlds best mom.
From Truman.
I always wanted a mom like you.
You made a lift in my heart.
Love this kind hearted boy!!
The insistence that baby dolls must come into the highchair for snacks.
Full of many special things,
Including Birthday Donuts in his birthday suit
(No video included for obvious reasons!)
Mom and Me class, and sharing treats with friends.
Making his birthday Cake
(He wanted to make it by himself, and didn’t want the squinkies (That I had bought, with visions to make a magnificent cake), he didn’t want the squinkies to get in the cake, so he found this ‘boat’ and put them in there!)
Then off to Chuck E. Cheese to celebrate and eat dinner and open presents with the family!
And the night ended with another gorgeous rendition of Happy Birthday! And CHAOS! 🙂
And I had to add this picture:
Elliot’s presents this year were all dinosaurs and squinkies…and here is his present from Grams and Gramps. I love Trumans’ reaction! So cute!
Love you Elliot!
If goodness and love made a person glow, Elliot would be iridescent in the light.
This easy going little boy has rocked our world. He brings so much happiness to our family, and had truthfully learned the fine art of being a big and little brother.
He has just discovered imaginative play, and can often be found, playing squinkies by himself 
(He loves those little friends!), he loves taking care of things, and especially loves to do things independently, and being ‘big’!
I love watching him learn and grow and get bigger every day!
WE love you Elly-belly! Happy third Birthday!
After a lot of good birthday party choices, Tucker narrowed it down to a breakfast Pokemon Party.
Here are the invites Tuck made by himself
Tucker made the menus. (As with many of the other details of the party!)
He named all the food after Pokemon Animals. So Awesome.
We played a few pokemon games–did some pokemon training stuff!
Tucker and I made this cute sign, he did all the pokemon drawings:
Had a piñata. That Tucker made to look like the Zappos Pokemon.
Sang Happy Birthday
Ate Pokemon doughnuts (each doughnut had a plastic pokemon guy on top, you can kind of see it, in the top right corner)
(They were a big dye mess! I am sure the parents loved me!)
Open Presents, and had a great time.
A great morning! and a great friend party!
(thanks to Toph, my parents, and Ry and Tiff who helped with all the behind the scene stuff! I couldn’t have done it with out your help!)
Then off to Logan, where we celebrated with a delicious New Years Eve Dinner and then sang happy birthday to Elliot and Tucker…
A great day I think!
A small reason I love volunteering at the kids school, is being able to walk up and down the classroom halls, and see the creations on the walls. Outside Tuck’s classroom, there was some new creations. I stopped to look. The students had used the word ‘WINTER’ and chosen a word to go with each letter, for example, one girl had done this:
W Wonderful
I Ice
N Never warm
T Terrific
E Exciting
R Rad
And then I saw Tuckers:
HA! I laughed out loud. That must be what winter means to him. And I really believe that it must be a boy thing, to describe winter this way! not to often you hear girls running around yelling ‘Noogie’ right? 🙂
Funny Boy.
Oh how fast time flies.
This sweet boy made me a mother, and had ‘broken me in’. He is such a joy, and a great big brother.
When he is gone, our home feels empty. He is constantly reading (He can seriously read like 5 times faster than me!), he is bold, loving, funny, and a very intelligent boy! He is the electricity that ignites all the children.
We are very blessed to have him, and can’t believe it’s already been nine years!
WE love you Tucker! Happy Ninth Birthday!
As tradition dictates, New Years Day is a day to record our favorites, and here they are! (just a little late!) 🙂
Tucker’s Favorites
Cereal- Frosted Flakes
Vegetable- No vegetable
Drink- Raspberry Lemonade
Toy- Pokemon Cards
TV Show- Pokemon
Game- Pokemon
Book- Pokemon
Restaurant- Subway
Holiday- New Year’s
Animal- Axel (Pokemon character)
If you could change your name to anything what would it be?- Ash
What he loves about:
Lorelei- likes his Axel Pokemon card
Elliot- always seems to be happy
Truman- He also collects Pokemon cards
Mom- cleans the house for us
Dad- because he spends time with me.
If you could go anywhere on Vacation, where would it be?- Land of Legos or Seaworld
Your biggest Dream- get a go-kart from Santa Claus
Truman’s Favorites
Cereal- Corn Pops
Vegetable- watermelon (ha, ha, a veggie?)
Drink- wathermelon juice
Toy- Pokemon
TV Show- Hercules
Game- Pokemon
Book- Pokemon
Restaurant- Chuck-a-Rama
Holiday- Easter
Animal- cat
If you could change your name to anything, what would it be? – I would keep my name, it’s a good one.
What he loves about:
Lorelei- mostly happy and a good sleeper
Elliot- he always seems to be happy
Tucker- Loves Pokemon
Mom- spends time cooking things for me
Dad- spends time reading stories to me
IF you could go on Vacation anywhere, where would it be?- I would go to legoland
Your biggest Dream- to grow up and be a good dad.
Elliot’s Favorites
Cereal- Honey Nut Cheerios
Vegetable- pickles (cucumbers)
Drink- chocolate milk
Toy- squinkies
TV Show- Go Diego Go, and Wonder Pets
Game- Any Game my brothers are playing, I want to play too!
Book- Any Book that my mom will read to me!
Restaurant- Chuck-E-Cheese
Holiday- My Birthday
Animal- dinosaurs
If you could change your name to anything, what would it be? – Mickey Mouse
What he loves about:
Lorelei- she gives good hugs, and wiggles her tounge
Truman- he always reads me stories and helps me.
Tucker- He helps me play imagniext
Mom- she spends lots and lots and lots of time with me.
Dad- He gives me huggles and kisses before he goes to work.
IF you could go on Vacation anywhere, where would it be?- I would go with my family. (me where?) Just with my family.
Your biggest Dream- to meet a dinosaur.
Lorelei’s Favorites
Cereal- Cheerio’s
Vegetable- baby corn.
Drink- milk
Toy- baby doll.
TV Show- anything I get to watch.
Game- Peek-a-boo.
Book- Books with animals in them.
Restaurant- Any food!
Holiday- Any holiday with treats!
Animal- Cat (she thinks it’s so funny to hear the ‘meow’ sound!)
If you could change your name to anything, what would it be? – My dad calls me ‘princess pretty pants’. That’d be a good name! 🙂
What she loves about:
Elliot- He gives me lots and lots of hugs.
Truman- He likes to help me walk and walk and walk.
Tucker- He know what I mean when I say ‘AAHHH!!’
Mom- She always ‘parties’ with me all night long.
Dad- He is my favorite person in the whole world, and I scream when I see him, I am so excited.
IF you could go on Vacation anywhere, where would it be?- Anywhere my mom and dad are!
Your biggest Dream- right now, it’s to learn to walk and talk this next year!
Goodbye 2011! Welcome 2012!
Ater Thanksgiving Pointe, and before a Greene family dinner, we saw Temple Square,
We found the Albanian Paper Bag
Visited the visitor centers
Elliot took a little cat nap after all the busy festivities
And Lorelei was pleased as punch to be there-
We saw the lights (and yes, this is the best group picture of about 30)
And right before we had to leave, we met up with Grandma and Grandpa Phillips, and PAtrick and Dallin Paul.
Love that Grandma is smiling in the chaos! 🙂
We went up to the Joseph Smith Memorial Building to see the big view.
Christmas isn’t Christmas without a visit to the beautiful temple.