On October 2nd Caden was one lucky and happy 9 year old boy! A month previous to his birthday he requested to receive a 100 dollar bill for his gift from us and it came true for him! I love to make birthdays an ALL day celebration. A way to do that is give him the meals he wants and give him a day off of homework, chores, and piano practicing. All my kids just love it!
A morning filled with tinfoil presents
His favorite breakfast..for lunch Ella, Evey and I went to the school to eat with him
Below we have one rich boy! We wrapped the money up in a very large box and put Curtis' heavy shoes in it to be sneaky. When he discovered the shoes I told him that he was to save them to use on his mission..ha..he actually believed me for a second! Then we reassured him to look further and there was his sweet sweet green discovery. His face said it all with bugged out eyes and a jaw dropped to the floor. Too bad it wasn't captured in a photo! Absolutely priceless! He had a hard time breaking that $100 dollar bill but got some great things for doing so. He actually still has about $20 left. Way to go Cade! Oh ya, it helped that he got an additional $75 from friends and grandparents. No wonder the kid was in heaven!
Here is a cute party guest, Liam testing out the light saber
and even more party guests
Our children seem to be following in Carter's footsteps by replacing birthday cake with doughnuts
We were so lucky to have the Hassler boys join us for the weekend. It was a blast for Caden to have cousin Ethan with him to celebrate his birthday. Also, it was a blast for us to watch Mike finish the St. George Marathon. He did amazingly well for his first marathon..way to go Uncle Mike! Evey was sure attached to him!
In honor of our birthday boy here are the things we love about you:
- Your many wonderful facial expressions. We just can't get enough!
- Your happy nature. You so easily forgive and love others and can be happy again immediately after being sad or upset.
- Your affectionate side. The many mom hugs you give and the "I love you's" mean SO much.
- Your good attitude. What an example you are to your family when you get right in to do a job you don't love.
- Your laughter. It fills the room and quickly becomes contagious to others. Love it!
- Your easy going nature. You rarely stress and seem so relaxed.
- Your ability to play with others of all ages. It doesn't matter to you what a person's size is or what they look like. You treat them all the same and have fun.
- Your many wonderful art talents..drawing as your number one. You blow us away with your creative pictures! You sing so well on pitch and you play the piano well. Keep it up!
- Your ability to be in your own Caden world and not even have a worry or care for what others think of you!
6 comments:
We love you too, Caden! Everyone loves to be around you, can't beleive that you are nine already! The Hassler boys sure had fun with you guys that weekend, how kind of you to have them and treat them with such love and support, when I was with mom and dad. Thank you so much! Ethan was sure sad to leave, he would love to be adopted into the Hancock family! Love how Caden reacted to the shoes and $100 bill - too funny! Can't wait to see you guys!
Woohoo!! Way to go, Caden - 100 bucks! What a great young man you are. Thanks for being such a good friend and example to our family. We love you!
Happy Birthday Caden!! What a fun birthday! And 100 dollars - sweet. We love you!
What a great b-day gift. I would have paid good money to see his reaction also. His expressions are to die for! What fun things you wrote about Caden, we are so blessed to have him as a regular in our home- his happy go lucky attitude is contagious. Happy b-day, Caden!
p.s. I love you new blog look, Melanie. Your family picture is beautiful.
Love the birthday celebration, love the cute PJ invite, love the new family picture, love what a fun mom you are...in fact, there isn't much about you and your family I don't love. Way to go!
Loving the new blog look and the new big pictures. Looks great!
I love reading your blog posts mel because I can totally picture you saying it, like "sweet sweet green discovery." hehe. What a winner of a present eh - no shopping, no wrapping, and he's super happy. :) (That's what Andrew loves most of all)
I also love that Caden plays with kids of all ages. Corbin loved playing with him and playing spaceships.
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