Mrs. Allie Gentry

Okay so 3 posts in 1 day is kinda alot but I'm playing catch-up so please bear with me!
This week has been a pretty busy week, monday & tuesday I went and worked on my parents farm again, I do this pretty much every monday & tuesday unless something big comes up. So it was a successful but otherwise not too out of the ordinary visit. I had fun visiting everyone and getting my hands in the dirt. The weather was great and Brandon had a great time jumping on the trampoline. On wednesday we got to see my mom, dad, aunt summer and some of her friends as they all came up to St. George to go to Laser Mania for Summer's birthday party. First they all came over to my house and we had pizza and salad for dinner, then we went to the park for a few minutes after which we headed over to Laser Mania. Brandon loved running around looking at all the flashing arcade games. He also liked looking at the prize counter! My dad took some great pics of Brandon playing on the bumper cars and I'll have to post them later. When the girls were all finished we all went home and simmered down :) Four 10 yr old girls can be pretty exhausting even when I'm just watching them! Thursday & Friday I buckled down and got all my school work finished. I am happy to report all A's still :) This saturday and Sunday have just been so amazing! I loved all the conference messages and I heard so many wonderful things that have bouyed me up and given me determination to do better and it also was great to feel good about what I think I've accomplished so far in life. Also, MOM! Thanks for being my mom. You are the best mom ever! I love you!
Happy Easter All!!

Brandon's 2nd Birthday, the most recent one, he also got 2 parties! Well, the one at home was very low-key, I'm not sure we should consider it a party in the sense, but anyways, Brandon got to open his presents, help mom make his cake, and then pretty much do whatever he wanted, or that mom knows he likes to do! We went outside to the park and played for a long time, he got in a nap and then he got to eat his finished cake after dinner. So ya, pretty low-key on his actual birthday, but the 2nd party was a bit more exciting because Grandma & Grandpa Omer came, Aunt's Nicole, traci, & Summer came, Uncle Josh and Nicole's friend Andrew were all present. We grilled up some hamburgers, opened some more presents and then played some games. Brandon loved it! Anyways, here are all the pictures :) Enjoy!

Do you wanna help mom? You're watching pretty close...

This is how Brandon best likes to help make the cake!

Frosting has always been a little kids favorite part, but he did eat the whole cupcake.

And away from the face goes the cake and we have a frostingstash.

Presenting the cake to the birthday boy

So this is going to be just a little different this week. I decided that I needed to add all the important events in the last little while in here so that it can also be put into the journal I make out of this blog. So this week's feature is going to be Brandon's past 2 Birthdays. In two different blogs.

Brandon's first birthday was casual yet fun. He had 2 parties, one with the extended family (my side) the night before his birthday, and the next day he had a little family fun with mom and dad.

Brandon trying to touch the flame of the cupcake... Silly Boy!
Brandon demolished that cupcake pretty quick, but if you look at the tray he didn't actually eat much of it!
Brandon's cousin Emily is helping him open their family gift to him, it was a nice soft blue blanket :)Books from Grandma, Brandon loves to read books!

So that was a fun night with the family :) The next day to celebrate for his birthday we took Brandon to the toy store that was having huge after Christmas blow-outs and helped him wander up and down the aisles picking out the toys he liked. He ended up picking out a Clifford stuffed animal and a few other things but the clifford was/is his favorite animal.








Brandon got to sit on his Birthday table and view the toys he had help pick out (lol) and pass the cake plates out to everyone.















We got Brandon a candle that sang Happy Birthday and it kinda scared the poor kid, Dad had to do some fancy coaxing and removal of all weird singing objects from the top of the cake before Brandon would touch it! But once he did he once again, demolished the poor thing!