Garrett's Birthday Party

Garrett had his 6th Birthday Party at the YMCA—

My family members thought I was crazy because I let him invite twenty one kids—

Nothing New-LOL we are the crazy ones

Twenty showed up - Of course it was organized chaos—that ‘s what the Borders do best.

It was a blast. He had friends from school- church-and preschool-

Here are some of the highlights

All but two of the kids he invited showed up and no one cried for more than a minute - LOL
The Kids seemed to have fun and were not too out of control- bonus for me
Garrett loved it- and so did Adison and Carson
Mike had to use his big muscles to hold the pinata up as the kids tried to hit it with a real baseball bat- Luckily he didn’t get hit.

Girls asking why Garrett is not paying attention to them-

Kids starting up a science club

Watching All of the kids gang up on Mike and throw balls at him

Learning the newest version of happy birthday

Getting sticky guys stuck on the ceiling and watching Mike cut them in half trying to get them down-- oh the simple things that make me laugh

My friend Cori helping kill time at the end playing doggie doggie where's my bone

Watching Garrett play with his friends realizing he is such a big kid now

Daisy Loved Carson's Gingerbread house

Oh what Cute Dogs we have-- So beautiful - So big- So hairy- So fun--

If you ask Carson he totally Disagrees-- and is not afraid to tell people about it

On the morning of Dec. 19th I was in the shower and Carson comes in and asks where his gingerbread house was. He says "Mom it is GONE!". I laughed and told him to go look again. He says, "I did Mom it is GONE!- I looked everywhere. I can't find it." I said, "Carson it's okay go look on the floor maybe it fell."

He came back one minute later crying- -"Mom they ate it- the whole thing the only thing left is part of the cardboard it was on." I felt so bad for the little guy. He did handle it well though and I thought he was over it in about ten minutes, until we went to the Dr. office later that morning. Our Dr. asked Carson how he was doing. Carson responded by saying well good but I am really mad at our dogs. Our Dr. being the nice guy he is asked him why. Carson told him the whole story-- it was hilarious hearing him retell it so dramatically. He was mad at them for a few days and Daisy was sick for a few days as well.

Of course she did not learn her lesson because a few days later her and Duke chomped into Garretts house too.

Carson's Christmas Gift to us

Carson made us a very cute picture frame at school-
He wrapped it up all by himself and could not wait to give it to us.
We told him we could wait till Christmas to open it
However, he insisted we open it the day he brought it home.
How proud he was of his frame.
He told Garrett that he should bring it to Show and Share at school
He even put it in his bag for him.

Oh how I love you Carson--

Christmas and Crushes in Garretts Class

Garrett celebrated Christmas at School - Dec. 18th and 22nd
He participated in a class play and made gingerbread houses with fifth graders
The play was very funny- He was actually Santa Clause and Skylar was Mrs. Clause.
Mike had a blast teasing him about Mrs. Clause
since she has been sending him love notes at school and leaving them in his cubby.
He actually came home from school the other day and darted for the garbage can to get rid of the evidence before Mike saw it.
Of course this is definitely scrapbook material and I fished it out.
The note said to Garrett I love you. Skylar. Complete with hearts and all.
If you know Mike you would laugh knowing how he responded.
He began singing Garrett and Skylar sitting in a tree. Garrett turned red and attacked him- all in fun of course.
And when she was Mrs. Clause he asked Garrett how he managed to get his girlfriend as Mrs. Clause.
I cannot believe how early the crushes actually begin.
We have been laughing a log about Girls in the Border house because this is not the first crush Garrett has had.
In fact one of the Mom's told me that her daughter told Garrett she loved him. and he ignored her-
another girls is practically stalking me to set up a sleep over with him. LOL every time I see her she asks. It is quite hilarious.
I think Garrett loves every minute of the attention-
I am sure many of the boys in his class or getting the same notes and invitations to sleep overs.

But I still find it funny.-- Thank goodness he didn't ask me to buy gifts for any of his "Girlfriends"

Oh the fun the boys are having with Garretts camera

Garrett got a new camera for his birthday and Carson and him are having a lot of fun taking pictures with the camera.
This particular picture was taken when Carson and Garrett were trying to see how high they could jump on our bed.

Finally Back on the internet

Yes- I have taken yet another break from blogging. We were not able to access our internet for a while because our server was not working- then we had Nolan and life kinda went crazy. So I am going to get it all updated today> LOL

Thank you Cori for posting a picture of Nolan