Our Life On The Hill

Sawyer's robot birthday party

We had Sawyer's birthday party on Friday night.  It was a robot themed party.  I had so much fun getting ready for it and he loved his cake and cupcakes. 

Hadleigh made the signs for me

His cake was really easy and the directions were on the Betty Crocker site.    

His adorable cupcakes.  I ordered the fondant toppers off of etsy.  

Opening his presents

Hadleigh made this robot for him

He was so happy to get a DS for his birthday

Don't mind my hideous window treatments.  When we moved here and began gutting part of the house, I had to find something to put on all 33 windows.  I liked these back in the 90s.  lol  I'm hoping to replace these very soon! I have 6 windows in the family room and 3 in the living room.  I can't wait to get rid of them!  It will be a happy day for me!  

Getting Megatron

He got a few more sets to his Lego Power Miners collection

My cousin Karen gave Sawyer a Target gift card that was also a thumb wrestling ring.  They loved trying it out. 

cake time

Hadleigh giving Sawyer's best bud a piggy back ride.  

giving her cousin a ride

Sawyer had his friend Wesley stay the night and Ashton had Wesley's brother Ethan stay also. 

getting ready for bed

The next morning, they were all playing outside.  Ashton came running in to tell me that they saw owls in the silo.  I told him to take my camera and get a picture.   I didn't believe that we had owls living in the silo, I knew we had pigeons though.  He said their faces were fat.  I got a little excited, and he came in with this photo....

It does kind of look like owls, but it was just pigeons facing the other way.                      

             

~~6~~

Last Wednesday, March 3rd, my little boy turned six!  I can't believe he's 6!  He was so excited for his birthday!  

That night we took him out to eat.  We told him to pick any restaurant he wanted for dinner.  He picked the little family restaurant in town.  This is the 3rd year he picked it and it's his favorite place to eat.  

He wore his birthday crown that his teacher gave him to wear during school. 

My sleepy boy

My silly boy

          

Happy Birthday to my fun, wild, and sweet boy!

fireplace repair and purging

I've been SO, SO busy with purging the house.  Last year at this time I was on a roll and then the tornado happened.  We stored all of our garage sale totes in the corn crib and since it was gone, we didn't have anywhere to go with our unwanted stuff.  We also had tons of clean up to do, so the purging was put on the back burner.  I finally got back to it and it feels so good!  We used to have shelves around the top of the family room that held "stuff" and I was so tired of it.  We took those down, and I only kept a few things that I loved and we packed away the rest to get rid of.  I want to hit every inch of this house.  My mom and I are going to have a garage sale in April and I can't wait!  The stuff that is left over after the garage sale will be donated.  

I didn't get photos during the purge, but I thought the colors of the plastic cups looked cool and decided to grab my camera.  I got rid of every plastic cup that my kids had and replaced it with glass.  Yes, I still had sippy cups in the cupboard.  I think it's about time I got rid of those since my baby is now 6, don't you?  lol  

A few of the things left from the living room shelves and the formal living room.  I'm keeping the old bottles and jars to the left.  They just needed major washing.  

   

We have two identical marble fireplaces.  We have a piece that fell and broke and I've been wanting to find someone to repair it.  I found a company in Chicago that repairs, restores and cleans marble.  I'm assuming that they haven't been cleaned properly in their 135 years, so they could use that too.  I just sent an e-mail with photos to this company and I'm crossing my fingers that the estimate isn't too high and that they are able to fix the broken piece.  

Here is one up close

The broken piece

Here is the fireplace with the broken piece missing

   

Sawyer's first pool party invite

Sawyer was invited to and attended a party at a local hotel for a boy in his class.  They went swimming in the hotel pool, ate pizza, and then went upstairs for cake, ice cream and to watch the birthday boy open presents.  

Here is Sawyer enjoying his favorite thing....the hot tub!

He had so much fun with his classmates.  It was on a day that we had nothing to do, which is a rarity, and I really didn't want to take him, but I'm glad that I did.  It was fun watching him and his friends run around laughing and playing.