*The Rhoades*: Birthdays and Blessings!

What a crazy but fun week! Wednesday, as you know from my last post was Preston's birthday! He's an old man now and is 23! For his birthday I took him to lunch to one of his favorite places.. David's Kitchen! A great Chinese restaurant. Since he had school that night instead of taking him to dinner we ordered pizza and hung out at home and he opened his presents from me. I got him some much needed new clothes! All he spends his money on his shoes, football stuff and food haha so I hooked him up with new clothes... Not the most exciting thing, but wait to see what I have in store for his Christmas! So his birthday from me was smaller just cause his Christmas will be... pricey. (But he's worth it!) He had a great day and his work had gifts for him and a huge cake and pretty much treated him like the boss all day... even the boss did haha. Then for more partying for his birthday, on Friday we had all the fam over for cake, ice cream and more presents. It was so fun to have everybody over. Our families get along so well and we couldn't have it any better! We missed Heidi, Chase, Cade and Jess.. Cadence was sick and Heidi got off work late and Jess was up at a funeral in Logan. It was so fun though. He got money, more clothes, toys, movies and lots of love from everybody! Everybody loves Preston! Probably the highlight gift of his whole birthday were the shoes his mom gave him. They are Nike shoes. He had them in high school and they got stolen, they were pretty much his first love and he has missed them ever since. But he never went and bought more cause Nike didn't make them anymore... UNTIL a couple months ago! His mom jumped on it and got him the same shoes he had in high school. He loves those babies!... I mean shoes! He is a shoe-a-holic. haha. We had a great time with all the fam. After they all left we had Mason (his good friend) come over to watch Iron Man, He got that from my parents as part of their gift to him. Awesome movie! It was a fun day! Oh, and we had to turn on our furnace for the first time this season.. burrr! It got down right freezing! (As many of you know)

Opa, Lili, Oma, Dad

Mom, Mom, Dad, Preston, Chris

Bill, Grandma, Grandma

Candle time!!!

Here are the shoes! Pretty sweet!

Then on Saturday Preston had football practice so I went up North with him and hung out with my sister and baby C. And might I add... IN THE SNOW! Sheesh, not ready for that yet! We had fun, we ran a couple errands! Then after Preston was done with Practice we went to his parents and later on went to dinner for Preston and his mom's birthday. (Her birthday was the 6th.. 2 days before Preston's) We went to Outback Steakhouse! It was delish! And we all got ice cream and they sang happy birthday to Preston and his mom! We then just spent the night at the in-laws Saturday night because Sunday we had two baby blessings! They were such great blessings. The first one was for Cadence! Chase did a great job! Cadence looked beautiful in her dress. The dress she wore, was worn by all of us girl cousins on my mom's side. My grandma has just kept it for years and keeps passing it down. One day hopefully my little girls will wear it! Cadence did great during her blessing and open house. She pretty much slept the WHOLE time! But that's what babies do best! Later that night at Preston's parents house was the blessing for little Everett. Everett is the son of Preston's cousin. He's an adorable little guy! His parents are so happy to have him! They both were great blessings and Preston had the opportunity to stand in the circle for both blessings! It was a treat! I'm so happy to have Preston who is a worthy holder of the Priesthood. He's a great husband (I can't say that enough!) Here are some pictures of the blessings!

Look how beautiful!

The happy family!

Best bud's!

Favorite uncle Chris!haha I love this picture! Jared wanted a picture taken with Cadence and I told him to make sure he holds her head! He made sure he did! Aren't they cute?!Here is Everett! What a handsome little guy!aahahaha, this picture is a classic Bill picture! So, as you can see, up North got a bunch of snow. Bill was upset that the Tomato plants are gone and snowed on. So he did what Bill would do, and took out a broom, tromped through the snow in his church clothes and brushed off the plants and picked tomatoes! He's one funny guy! We like having Bill as the new addition to the family!