January means birthday season at our house! It’s such a fun way to start a new year, celebrating the best boys! Chase’s birthday is January 4th- he turned 12! It was such a big milestone. He’s been so excited to be ordained a deacon and get to enter the Young Men’s program at church. Right at the first of the year Ben ordained him a deacon. Both sets of grandparents were able to come and both grandpas stood in the circle to be part of having their first grandson ordained to the Priesthood. He got to pass the sacrament that day and took it very seriously. He bore his testimony that day about how he really felt the spirit when he was ordained. The kids has a heart of gold- we love him so much!
He has requested since last April that I make this specific coconut cream cake for his birthday. It’s a very time intensive cake between the cakes, filling and frosting, so I did it over three days and he loved it so it was all worth it!
I make it a tradition to take my kids out to lunch for their birthdays. I also took Chase to Barnes and Noble and let him pick any book he wanted (he knew which one he wanted right away!). As we were packing up to go, Lila started to beg to come along. She had been sick the 5 days before and was so sick of being stuck at home. Sweet Chase immediately suggested we bring her along and she was delighted to come. He’s the sweetest big brother. He even switched his lunch choice because he thought Zupas would be something Lila liked more than his original idea. It was a fun afternoon with my biggest and littlest.
We did a family birthday at our Smith family Sunday dinner. Mom had a Sacher Torte flown in from Vienna (her friend Elli in Vienna sends her one- or this year three- every Christmas). The boys were thrilled to use it for their birthday celebration- fancy Austrian cake!
To celebrate Hudson’s big 10th birthday we took his two best buddies- Hyrum and Richie- plus his younger sibs to the trampoline park and then out to dinner. His friends are the absolute cutest. Richie ended up taking Lila down the slides at the park over and over and over on his lap! They were all so cute to include Davis in their fun. These boys are the sweetest and Hudson is so lucky to have them!
Somehow Lila got to tag along on Hudson’s birthday lunch too! He chooses Old Grist Mill every year. I truly love hanging out with Hudson so much!
Hudson had very specific ideas for his birthday cake. He wanted brownies- double thick- with whipped cream- cream cheese frosting with Oreos mixed in. It was delicious and he loved it!
He really wanted this bungee chair for months and months and was so excited to get it!
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