Dillon is 4!

Dillon wanted a "horse birthday" and we've had a fun day. Here he is, begging to open his presents before church :o)



Opening a Hot Wheels launcher from Grandma and Grandpa Salisbury. When we got on toysrus.com to see what he wanted, he liked anything that said "blast" or "launch". When he made his list, he asked for a clone helmet for Caleb, star wars lego's for Brayden, and a hot wheels car for himself. Such a sweetie to think of his brothers :o)

This is my favorite part...the display.

I made the Happy Birthday banner a month ago by ironing fabric onto felt.

We ate chili dogs in tin plates, drank "sasparilla" (root beer), and had carrot sticks.

Since horses (and Dillon) like oats, we had oatmeal for breakfast.

I had to be creative since the dollar store had NO cowboy/horse stuff at all.

The silverware was wrapped with pipecleaner rattlesnakes,

and I made wanted posters for place cards.

We played "There's a snake in my boot" by dropping plastic snakes into one of Todd's boots. (he would like everyone to notice that his boots are ruffed up and dirty...not at all like a mail order cowboy)

We had a "shoot out" using Dillon's new Nerf gun from Grandma Great, and some empty soda cans. Dad also got a Nerf gun for his birthday (a week early), and I think I've been shot at least 2000 times today, and we are currently missing 10 darts.

Todd was laughing at me, but I managed to hit my target :o)

We wiggled a 12 foot rope for a rattlesnake,

and took turns trying not to get "bit" while jumping over it.

Todd sarcastically stated that this cake is one of my best. I do not do cakes. Watch for an upcoming post on this topic. Dillon helped me make the fences out of popsicle sticks and hot glue. (Todd gave me a hot glue gun for Christmas so I wouldn't have to look for my old one, or use tub sealer ever again).

I used a tootsie roll to add a litte horse....poop.

That about sums up how I feel about horses.

Todd was going to make no bake cookies with green food coloring,

but he didn't get around to it.

Dillon loves his clone helmet from Grandma Graves! We gave him the light saber, and he's been walking around looking like a bobble head all day. We also gave him a Webkinz monkey (he named it Monkey), and a horse on a stick.

We blew up 25 balloons (okay, we used an air compressor) and the kids had a "cattle drive" trying to get them from one end of the livingroom, to the corral in the kitchen. It was a riot!

Before the cattle drive, we "branded" each of our cows in case any of them got lost.

Click to watch part of the cattle drive, and listen to Todd's great impression of a cow.