Happy birthday Chase!

 Can it really be possible that I have a 3 year old?!?!

I think that means he has fully exited toddler stage and is now a big boy and I can't stand it :(

He kept telling me on the days leading up to his birthday that he was going to "Make a wish and blow out the candles so that he could eat some cake!"  He had it all figured out.

This was his face while we all sang to him.  (There really are three candles.  One is white and hard to see.)

Eating the cake.

He was pretty excited about what a birthday meant and that he was going to have one so we tried to make it special for him.  We got some balloons and a pinata and had a little party with his cousins.

 

We had the amazing opportunity this last weekend of watching this sweet little thing be blessed and sealed to her momma, daddy, and big brother.

 

These boys were fun to watch chasing each other around.  There's a little bit of fighting, but they along with Aiden play together pretty well.

The temple was gorgeous with the fall colors.

And the ride home was one of the worst I have seen.  I took some pictures of the worst of what we saw.  There wasn't time or enough room on my memory card for pictures of all the people who had just slipped off the road, or where turned around backwards on the freeway.

We passed this truck and wondered how they got into that position... until we noticed the tracks off to the left.  They came from the other side of the freeway, slipped off the road, went through the median, and slid clear across our side of the freeway. 

This truck is sitting in the median and the trailer is completely jack-knifed.  It was bashed into the side of the truck.

It took us an extra 2.5 hours to get home and we got through that mess just in time.