My baby is SEVEN!

      6:30 am I walked into Dylan's room to wake him for school but because it was a special day he was woken by me singing Happy Birthday. He woke up with THE biggest smile. He was thrilled to FINALLY be seven. We bought his favorite cookies to bring to school since this was a special day. On the way to school with his cookies in his lap and a smile on his face he said "I'm so happy its my birthday. The kids will have to watch me take the first bite of my cookie before they can eat theirs. I get to open presents, go to ChuckECheese and have a sleep over and eat allllll my CAKE. Ohhh Today is THE BEST DAY EVER!"

Our sweet boy is SEVEN! He has grown to be the sweetest, most caring loving little man. I couldn't be more proud of this little guy.

After he blew out his candle just like at school with his cookie we had to watch him take his first bite of his cake before we got to eat our own piece of cake. ha ha.

Dylan wanted to end his night with one of his best buds sleeping over. This was the first time since Christmas he got to come over and check out Dylan's new toys so OF COURSE Dylan wanted to play "Soldiers." They played for hours.

Dylan told us weeks before his birthday he wanted a "soldier" cake with a tank on it. It just so happens we live on a military base! JACKPOT! He loved it. The tank was also a transformer.

Dylan wanted a ChuckEcheese birthday party. So he got just that. This would be his second year in a row spent at ChuckEcheese for his birthday!

At the end of Dylan's birthday Mike says to me "wow cant believe he is 7. He will be asking for our car keys before we know it!"  Jeeeeeezzzzzzz way to ruin a moment! ha ha.

Christmas Time...

This year was different from last year because last year Christmas we  just moved from Alaska to Colorado so we were living in hotels. This year was so close to a deployment and was important to stay home and spend as much time as our family of four we decided not to travel to our hometown this year. However, Grandma Killion decided to join us. 

We had Dylan make a Christmas list of EXACTLY what he wanted, a top 5 of what he thought he "couldn't" live without. Between all our family and not traveling this year Dylan was able to get EVERYTHING off his Christmas list...and then some.

There came boxes to our house for a couple weeks from our family. This picture is of Dylan getting spoiled from his great grandma and great grandpa Burns with the legos (which was his newest and favorite thing to do this year) and also got an Angry Bird sweatshirt from his Aunt Tina and Uncle Joe. For the past two years Angry birds has been one of his favorite things. "Mom, can I play angry bird on your phone?" 

Breaking into the legos immediately after opening them.  He also got a race car track that attaches to the wall

Short Story....When my aunt got remarried she married a guy who has 3 boys around Dylan's age. When my aunt first introduced Dylan to the boys she said..."This is Logan, Tyler, and Dylan." The look on my Dylan's face will always be remembered because this was the first time he met anyone else with his same name. He was SHOCKED. His eyes were big, he looked up and down at Dylan (who is older then my Dylan) and said "YOUR NAME IS DYLAN?" Completely surprised. It took him a while but he LOVED it! He loved he had boy cousins his age and one of them who was named Dylan. Later on my Dylan said "Hey Big Dylan come here." And that's where it started. We have a Big Dylan and lil Dylan. :) So this sweatshirt he got for Christmas has his uncles construction buisness on the back and on the front left says "Lil Dylan" Big Dylan also got one that said "Big Dylan" 

Got another delivery from the UPS guy...this is a gift from his Grandma and Grandpa McAllister who live in Florida. He got a remote control car that later on that evening we had a military meeting so we let him bring it with. Remote control car in with a whole bunch of soldiers safe to say it was a big hit. In this picture he got a "glow dome" which he loved. Dylan is very artistic and LOVES to draw so this is a big hit when he is laying in bed. He draws on it and it glows in the dark and shows off his gorgeous drawing.

I wrapped Dylan in lights for a Christmas card and this would be him laughing at how silly this idea was. However it was one of the pictures I used! ha ha 

When I was pregnant with Dylan, Mike and I wanted to make a ginger bread house together because we have never made one. We loved it so every year for the past 8 years this has been a tradition. Of course when Dylan was old enough to join he couldn't keep his mouth off of it. :)

Making some home made cookies for his class

Decorating his cookies and of course saved a few for himself.

Legos from mom and dad

Dylans love to be like his dad and grow up and be a soldier is getting stronger by the minute. His Aunt Jo and Uncle Lawrence (who is Navy) sent him this cool army vest all the way from Japan. We bought him a army knife, helmet, grenades, cell phone, and all sorts of  army accessories to put in his new cool vest. He is Absolutely OBSESSED with being a soldier he will sleep in this.
Funny story...
Mike being the soldier he is takes Dylan's "gun play" seriously. Dylan had laid his gun on the counter and ran into the living room to get something, I heard Mike say "Dylan are you done playing with your gun?"
 Dylans answer was "no I went to get something" I thought maybe Mike wanted Dylan to pick up after himself but that was not the case...I should of known.
 Next thing I heard Mike say was "Dylan don't EVER leave your gun unattended."  I can't help but laugh because Dylan also takes it very serious and says "oh RIGHT!" he grabbed his gun puffed out his chest and marched out of the kitchen. Junior boot camp in progress...future soldier in training.