He's 3! He is smart, funny, polite, and very tall for his age (he is in the 98th percentile for his height.) It still amazes me that I am allowed to be a mama to this special person. For his birthday we had cupcakes a couple of times. The first time was a few days before his birthday at a house that Scott's Aunt Kathy was house-sitting. We had gold doubloon cupcakes and other pirate treasures. He had a hard time blowing out the candles, he blows through his teeth, it was cute to watch though. Plus, I accidentally got magic candles, so they would relight when he would finally get them blown out. Now before you say, "Yeah, right, you 'accidentally' got magic candles, sure Rachel..." it really was an accident. Let me explain... We went to the party store to get the plates and decorations and I let Sawyer pick out which candles he wanted. The first package he handed to me had "MAGIC Candles" written really big across the top. I told him that we should pick another package because those ones were "tricky candles." He put them back and we looked a few rows down and found another package that had similar candle colors and decided to get those. It wasn't until the candles started relighting that I realized they were ALSO "tricky candles." I was so mad! When we got home, I looked at the package and sure enough, up in the top corner, in small lettering, were the words "magic candles." It didn't even dawn on me to look closely since the other package had the word MAGIC written in large lettering across the top of the package, where the package that we ended up buying had CANDLES written in the same place. OK...OK...I'm done venting...calming down now...breathe... Needless to say that next time I will be looking VERY carefully at the entire package. Here are some pics of the fun...




The next time was on his actual birthday and Grananna brought him a cupcake. We decided to do the candle thing again. He still had a hard time, if you watch the candles somehow relight (I promise, they weren't "tricky candles" this time,) but he eventually got them out. I was relieved because I thought he was going to hyperventilate!


Then he got to dig in. He said to us today, "I'm tired of being little, I want to be big." It was so cute, but also made me a little sad. I want him to be able to be a kid for as long as he can. I want for him to enjoy every minute, because it goes by way too fast, for all of us. He is amazing and I'm so grateful to have him in my life and to be able to call him mine. We love our Soybean and can't wait to see him grow and learn this next year.

When I finally sat down to update, I realized that we have been horrible about taking pictures with our regular camera. We have taken lots on our phones, but can't find the connector to upload them onto the computer. So here are a few things that we actually have photos of...

Sawyer sleeping in his big-boy bed.
Scott's dad came to visit so we documented the event. It had been too long since we had seen him and had fun catching up. This is Dustin, Sofia, Reed, Sawyer, and Scott.
We went to Michigan for Christmas. It was a fun two weeks of catching up, being lazy, and visiting friends. This is a picture of my brother's cat Calista sleeping on one of the quilts that I made my parents.

Just before Star Wars went on vacation from our house, we got Sawyer and Scott reenacting a scene. Sawyer puts his own twist on the ending though.


Sawyer loves taking pictures of everything. We have tons of pictures of various blankets, feet, walls, and carpet. This is one that we took together.

Sawyer was a lot of fun on Easter Morning. He is probably one of the worst 'lookers' though. Plus, all he wanted to do was open the eggs to see what was inside. He is a candyholic just like his father!


I couldn't resist putting this next conversation on the blog. It's funny to see his little mind working.


My parents drove out in June for a visit. Sawyer was in prime 'show-off' mode for the first few days. Here he is 'rocking out' on his guitar.



He then took a picture of Pop-pop taking a turn.
Pop-pop and Sawyer were so fun to watch. They played cars, read books, 'tinged' swords, and lots of other stuff. They even took a few naps together.
Overall, it has been a fun few months. Now that I'm on a break from school, I get to spend a lot of time with the boys. There are a lot of changes coming soon, so we are trying to enjoy this summer as much as we can. I will try to be better about taking pictures and updating in the next few weeks. When we find the connector, I will update again!