Brock's birthday party!

    Tomorrow Brock Garrett will officially turn 8 years old! Tomorrow is also the first day of basketball games for Carter and Isaac as well as the adult session of our semi-annual stake conference so we decided to celebrate Brock's birthday today, a day early. Brock requested a friend birthday party, which his mother reluctantly agreed to. Miraculously everyone survived and seemed to have a fun time. There was a pirate ship piñata, cake and ice cream and gifts. Brock was allowed to invite four friends and all four friends arrived on time and ready to celebrate.

Brock and four of his best buddies.

And the traditional birthday card and cash from G & G Baker all the way from Australia! (Brock says, "Thanks Grandma and Grandpa!)

Pirate themed cake.

Brock was thrilled with all these cool gifts.

Please ignore the huge mess but the garage was our only option for hitting the piñata. 

And of course we can't forget the traditional birthday balloons.

    The rest of the week has been relatively easy going for us here in Alpine but it hasn't been easy going for everyone. We had a new nephew/cousin join the family. My youngest sister, Marie had her third baby on January 12 in Oregon. Little Brigham Patrick joined the Bowlby/Baker clans on Tuesday making 24 grandkids, so far, for my parents, which is pretty exciting! Now the big question is when will all the Baker clan be together at the same time???

      Now here are a few random photos from the week. There were haircuts given to both the boys and the dog as well as some fun photos of Charlie.

Surprisingly Mark allowed me to cut his hair and it turned out ok, it's definitely better than it was before the haircut.

     I didn't take any photos of the other boys and their haircuts because they weren't quite as dramatic as Mark's but everyone looks great even the puppy got a nice short haircut.

It might be a little shorter than expected but at least we can put off another grooming session for several months.

She's always sweet when she's sleeping.

Charlie was the only girl allowed at Brock's party and she had a blast.

    For now we're all looking forward to a long weekend and are especially happy it's Stake Conference weekend so there's no classes to teach. Let's just hope the promised snow storms don't put a damper on our free time.