Daddy's Girl

Byron's Birthday Bash!

Byron here to tell you all about my amazing birthday!

For starters I was the boss of all the other kids for the whole day! It was after all my birthday, and I let the kids know that is the way it works on your birthday. I was a little embarrassed when my Aunt Lara overheard me filling the kids in! That is confidential 'kid information' after all!

Anyway, I had a DINOSAUR party! 

It was pretty much the coolest party ever! My mom and dad got me a dinosaur bounce house for the whole day (even the day before for Thanksgiving) just for my birthday! When my friends arrived we decorated our treat bags and jumped in the bounce house for a long time! It was pretty rockin'! I took full advantage of the bounce house time to shoot the girls, and then they tickled me!? I thought people usually die when you shoot them. Pretend bullets have a strange effect on 5 year old girls! What is that all about? Sorry, I digress!

Here is a picture of my awesome Triceratops Bounce House!

I totally loved every minute of it!

My mom is a genius! This may just look like a pool full of shredded paper, but it is actually a 'dinosaur dig'! Buried inside was candy, dinosaurs, cars, army men and paratrooper guys! It was so awesome. My mom had to help the little kids.

The big kids were so fast though! We got lots of stuff (and paper) in our bags!

I had a moment when I nearly lost my nugget because Jack got the color of paratrooper I wanted, but I found another one 'with a little help from my friends'! So my nugget stayed in tact, mom said that was a good thing since I was the birthday boy!

Poor, cute, little Taryn! She thought the object of the game was to take the paper out of the pool! She didn't get very much candy, so I shared with her at home!

Present time! I really got into it! My friends rock! I got some awesome gifts! Hotwheels, legos, superhero walkie-talkies! So cool!

Jack and Severin were my faithful gift-unwrapping sidekicks!

My Aunt Brittany and her team of cake decorators made me the most amazing dinosaur cake ever! It had an erupting volcano, flying pterodactyl and everything!

The dinosaur carnage was my favorite part of the cake! T-Rex totally got the brontosaurus! He's dead for sure! I mean, look at the blood! No dinosaur bleeds that much and lives!

Dallin is my hero for coming up with the dinosaur carnage and death!!!

Then I blew out my candles of course, and made a wish! I can't tell you what my wish is, or you'd have to end up like the brontosaurus! Ha ha! I'm just kidding, if I told you my wish it wouldn't come true!!

Jessica, Kaia, Abby and Tyler eating birthday cake! We're missing Evelyn because she took her cake 'to go'!

Maurin and Chloe with their grub!

And me of course with my sidekicks Jack and Severin eating our goods! Don't worry about my boys, I took a turn being the sidekick on Saturday!

I put this picture in because mom said I had to! Ok, and I do think my sister is pretty stinkin' cute! I love to squeeze and tickle her! So here's my shout out to my one true homegirl!

To conclude my picture adventure I though I would throw this one in, so you knew what my dad was doing during my party! That's right, playing Rock Band! He does a pretty good jam on the guitar! Someday I'll be that good! Oh, and mom said he 'supervised' the dinosaur dig! Whatever that means.

And last but not least, here is Taryn, my mom and me! Aren't we cute? Ok, I'm a bit of a cheese. I was just so excited about my fabulous day! Birthday parties are killer sweet dude!

Thanksgiving!

I love Thanksgiving, it competes closely with Christmas for my favorite holiday! I love the food, the family, visiting and relaxing! We had a great Thanksgiving this year. My Squires Grandparents, and Aunt Marie and her 10 beautiful, fun children joined us. All in all with the missionaries my mom fed 39 people on Thursday. Grandpa Jack told me my mom is "an amazing lady" last night, and I just have to whole heartedly agree! I really enjoyed having so much family around! We hung out the whole weekend, it was great.

Here are some random pictures of all the fun! There are a lot of pictures! Enjoy! They are in no particular order. Oddly enough I don't have any pictures of food! Too bad, as usual it was amazing!

Taryn and Ava checking each other out on Nonni's lap. Ava is my cousin Mandy's little girl. These two aren't always sure what to think of each other. They are pretty funny!

Oh the intensity of Rock Band! We jammed all night! Always entertaining, especially when the little kids get into it!

Cute cousins! Mandy, Brittany, Emma, Eden and Elyssa.

I always love the Thanksgiving 'sleeping' pictures! Isn't he scrumptious when he sleeps? Sounds like I'm talking about about one of my children! Ha ha!

The Ashworth version. Didn't even flinch when I took this!

A raucous game of ping pong! Todd is crazy and competitive!

So is Jarrod, Mandy's husband. 

This one just had to make the cut. 'Nuff said!

Taryn checking out Grandma Jean. Decided she was A-0k, and hung out with her for a bit!

This may be my favorite picture of the day! The smokin' hot ladies in the kitchen making all the goodness happen! I'm just bummed my mom walked out of the shot before I took this!

Funny cousins! Hamming it up for the camera are Clayton and Brittany!

Uncle Mike, Dad and Grandpa Jack. The OG Squires men! Good looking to boot!

Fun in the bounce house! Maurin, Byron and Tyler.

Byron LOVED the bounce house!

Maurin's crazy action shot!

Taryn adopted Liberty for the weekend! She glued herself to Lib as often as possible. Sometimes we had to force Taryn to hang with someone else and give a girl a break! They were too cute!

I am grateful for FAMILY, FUN, AND FOOD!