Luke's 7th Birthday--CANDY CAKE

He's 7!!!

Lucas Tadje Spencer Winn!

I can't believe it some days.  He has turned out to be such a fantastic little ham too!  He's a hoot.  For his birthday this year he wanted a candy cake, so we packed on as much as that cake could carry! 

Luke is amazing and we love him.  He's full of life and full of character.

He hardly ever does a straight smile in pictures.  He did an amazing job on his cake.  He LOVED swimming lessons, coach pitch and soccer camp this summer.  He won the academic award for his class this year (he had the highest marks).  He loves to read and we're currently reading the 2nd Candy Shop War book.  His favorite foods are still Macaroni and Cheese and Pizza.  He hates potatoes and most vegetables.  Luke likes to spend his money on things like Skylanders Giants, that claw machine where you try to pick up toys but it always rips you off, food at the pool, and candy.  He loves playing up the street with his friends Lincoln and Matthew.  Luke is a WONDERFUL kid who rocks at being a Winn boy.

Birthday Awesomeness:

Luke's birthday went like this: Woke up early, opened all his gifts

 took his great friend Jo Jo to Trafalga with the family.  Rock Climbed, 

Played on the Go Karts, 

Played in the Arcade,

(Scott and Andrea playing Dance Dance Revolution)

 and Got Wet (and soaked all of us :) in the Water Bouncy Ride thing.  

*This was sooooo fun!

Then pizza!

(Andrea below eating the Jalapeno pepper from the Papa John box. She's brave like that.) 

And to making Glow in the Dark everything!

Here's an adorable picture of Andrea and Luke when she took him to a BYU baseball game for his birthday!

WE LOVE YOU LUKE!!!!!!!!

George is 60 and Conference in Evanston

Jess' Dad turned 60 this year! Woo Woo!  So we spent the weekend celebrating by singing happy birthday, eating cake and watching conference :)  

On Saturday Jess had some notes to condense for his finals and had told us all that he wasn't going to get distracted for anything.....he was doing so good and focusing until the pull to make his dad special birthday glasses got the best of him.  I think he made a great choice though. That boy's got talent.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GEORGE!   

The rest of our time was spent on fancy upside down conference tricks, dueling with pipe cleaners, birthday present scavenger hunts and games :) Living so close to family is wonderful.

Each session was a little different this year. One with packets, one with legos, one with tinker toys, another one with....other stuff.  But the messages were amazing and fantastic.  We are soooo blessed to have a living prophet and to be able to hear his messages so often!

A House Divided

My Parents are what you'd call, "Supporters" of the University of Utah.   It's created quite the lil rivalry here at the house.  This pic was an accident and I just love love love it.  

GO BYU!  

WE LOVE YOU!

The King's Highway

Luke's school was having a story telling festival.  All the kids in his class told a story and then they voted on their 3 favorites.  Luke was 1 of 3 from his class and was able to continue on to the grade level.  They had judges for that and out of the 12 kids, he was picked again as 1 of the 3.  So he got to tell his story to the school.  Way to go Luke!!!  We took a video which is kinda loud so I added the words.  He's so so so so brave to have done this.  We were super proud of the little guy!