Jayden is 12

Another year older and he wears it well!!! I have to say I am thankful for Jayden every single day to have another day with him.  Some days he "runs his mouth" but when we correct him it usually helps.  I'll take that over being "out of control" elsewhere. And doing bad things I see and hear from other boys his age!!!! For his Birthday weekend we planned our 1st trip to Papa and Mimi's new house in Missouri.  We left Friday and it took 6.5 hours through Kansas having a controlled burn going on for miles.  Papa and Mimi could smell the smoke on us :/ it was dark when we drove through, all we could see was the flames.  On our way home we captured pictures of what we smelled :/ when we got to Papa and Mimi's we toured there beautiful new home and talked for a little bit and wished Jayden Happy Birthday at midnight.... Then we all crashed for the night. We woke up and papa made us breakfast (I told the kids earlier in the week that papa would probably be making them breakfast) it was yummmmy like always :-) daddy, papa, Jayden and Persaus played most of the morning outside while Mimi and mom got ready for the Carne Asada fiesta Jayden requested.  Living in Oklahoma Mexican food is HOrRIBLE so having the best Mexican food this weekend was sooooooooooo good!!! Mom made a tie died cake that Jayden asked for.  Homemade cake is always the best!!!! We ate till we couldn't move or breath as the girls played downstairs and all we could do was mumbled how they were able to play as we all tried to get comfortable.  We all sang Happy Birthday to Jayden.  Sunday the boys and Persaus played outside and Persaus looked for the donkeys and horses that she fed the day before. We enjoyed another breakfast made by papa.  Papa and Mimi took us to see the house Daddy lived the first 3 years that was maybe 10 minutes from pap and Mimi's house now.  We headed home after we ate leftover and packed up the car.  Our stay was short but worth every minute we made memories.  Jayden is 12. Daddy and I are ready for this next chapter as he slowly turned into a teen!!!!!