Trevor's 5th super hero birthday party!!!!

 Sweet Trevor loves him some super heroes and

he also loves to dress up in costumes. So,
for his 5th birthday i thought why not just
combine his favorite things and have a
super hero costume party. I thought the gym
would be the perfect place for a 

superhero to do their favorite superhero moves!!

Trev's cousin Tryston has a birthday a
couple weeks  before Trev so my sister and
I combined forces tohave the coolest
superhero party ever!!!

 All our little superheros loved the foam pit!!

 Even my little captain america couldn't get enough of it.

 My adorable niece Trynity as bat girl!! And the cutest

bat girl I've ever seen!!

 Tryston about to do a super hero dive in the pit!!

 Trevor had to practice his super hero swing too!!

It's hard work trying to save the universe!!!

 My sweet silly Cruzy!! He couldn't be thrown in the

pit enough!! I need one of these at home!!! lol

 The super hero table was amazing!!

I used comic books as in inspiration.

 I took the boys to Shelby Lynn's cake shoppe in
springdale to let them pick out their own individual
cakes. Trevor choose a captain America cake!!
They did such a great job. It turned out perfect and
Trev was really excited about it!!

 Tryston choose a batman cake!! Very cool.

We ordered cupcakes for the kiddos. We had batman,

captain America and superman for the choose from.

 For the kiddos party favor we had all kinds of
different candy they could choose from
to take home in a cool superhero bag. We
gaveeach candy it's own  name that went with
our superhero theme. 

For example, star burst were "super burst"

sour punch straws were "power punch"

we had superhero tattoos called "bat tats".

It was so much fun.

Each candy had it's own name in a burst shape

just like in the comic books!!!

 For the kids table I took a comic book
apart, taped it together and had it laminated
for our table runner!! It  turned out so cute
and was probably my favorite part on the table!!
We used primary super hero colors for 

plates and forks and had different super
hero napkins.

 For the middle of the table I filled clear jars with all
Trevor's super hero figures. Then I took
Trevor's hulk hands and tied balloon's around the thumb!!
The kids loved the big hulk hands and had fun finding
their favorite super heroes in the jar.

The boys fixing to blow out their candles!!

I can't believe Tryston is 6

and Trevor is 5!!!

 Tryston didn't enjoy everyone singing Happy Birthday

to him so he just hid under the table!! Silly boy. I 

didn't get hardly any pics of him!! lol

 Trev on the other hand was just fine with it. He couldn't

stop staring at his cake. He was ready to dig in!! 

 I love this kid soooo much!!!

 We are licking our lips ready to DIVE in to this cake!!

 He was so funny!!

 All the kiddos eating their cupcakes!! They were having

a great time!!! 

 Keegan and Cruz were cupcake monsters!! They had

icing all over them. Uncle David was very brave to hold

them BOTH while they were eating a cupcake!!

 We wanted the kids to have as much playing time in the

gym possible since you only rent it out for a short period

of time. So we decided to take presents home and open

them there. That gave us an extra 15 min to play!!

It's just chaos when you have 15 kids trying

"help" anyways. It was much calmer this way! lol

Even Cruz enjoyed bubba's presents!!

The party was a huge hit!!! Tryston and Trevor had so 

much fun with all their super hero friends. Now, what to

do next year.....

Life Lessons

Lately, my sweet baby Trevor has turned

into a klepto. It all started out very innocently, 

or so I thought, a few months ago. Trev

would come home from Mimi's with some

little something in his pocket. I just thought

at some point of playing during the day he

stuck it in there and forgot about it. He is my

child after all. But then he went over for a 

play date with his cousins and came back 

with something of theirs in his pocket. 

Trev is the one who brought it to my

attention so we returned the toy the

next day and I once again just blew it

off.

John went out of town last week so

my sister and I decided to take the kids

and go eat at Grubs. Yummy!!! We had the

best time. The kids were drawing pictures

handing them out to the servers, the boys

were really gettin their flirt on, we watched

the draft and american idol but then the kids

became restless and it was time to go. We get

them all to the car and started out of the parking

lot. I heard Trevor say something about cutting

or tearing (cant' remember) a piece of paper

in half so I look back at him only to see he

had stolen a fork from the restaurant. We 

held hands out to the car and he wasn't 

carrying it in his hands so I knew he had

stuck it in his pocket to take home.

My thought at first was to take him home and 

deal with it when we got there (actually it

was- really.., a fork?) but then the good fairy

appeared on my shoulder, thank God for

her, and reminded me this would be a 

great lesson to teach him!!

I turned around and headed back to the restaurant

letting Trev know what we he was about to do.

I'm going on and on with my mom spill about how

stealing is wrong and unacceptable etc, etc.... until 

we arrived in the parking lot. And to my advantage 

there sat a police car not to far from us. My sister

who was finding all of this pretty funny said

to Trevor " Trevor, I hope that police officer

doesn't take you to jail for stealing."  Trev

didn't want to get out of his seat after that!!

He kept telling me to take the fork back

so I had to remove him from his carseat and

carry in myself.

When we walked through the doors the manager

was standing right there and guess who he was

talking to? The police officer!!! Trev's eyes

got soo big when he saw this. Ive never seen

him so freaked out. I walked up to the manager

and said "sir, my son has stolen a fork from 

your restaurant and we are here to return

it and apologize." I made Trev hand over

the fork and then I asked him to tell him 

he was sorry. He just looked at the manager,

eyes as big as saucers then his little lip started

to quiver. He buried his head in my shoulder

and began to cry. Everyone who had been 

standing there were all giggling, along 

with the police officer and myself. I 

put his head up and asked him again

to apologize which he did then buried

his face in my shoulder once more. As 

we were walking out the officer looked

at me (with a straight face this time) and 

said "That was a great lesson you just

taught him." I  replied "thanks, I'm working

hard with him so you will never have to!!"

Tough love is always hard for me but I think

it will pay off in the end!!! It's paying off now

even, Trev is a great kid and I'm so blessed

to have him and Cruz in my life!!! And I don't

think you will ever read another story about 

my klepto ex klepto child......

M.I.A

The Castleberry's have been M.I.A for

awhile!! There have been so many 

things going on. Cruz got sick a 

couple weeks ago so we were at

the doctor saturday and then

again on monday!! After a chest

x-ray, which our not fun at all

by the way, we discovered he had

bronchitis!! Poor little guy. Sunday

he ran fever and I couldn't get it to

break. It was up to 103. I was so 

super worried and we debated 

taking him to the hospital.

Luckily I do my pediatrician's family's

hair so I gave him a call! After asking 

us a few questions he informed us

the fever wasn't a reason to rush

him to the E.R but he did want to

see him the following day!! I want to

give a shout out to Dr. Lovell for 

squeezing us in and taking care of

my sweet sick baby!! Once we got

started on our RX we were on the

road to recovery....but not so fast!

Trev starts running fever and coughing

like crazy. So Wednesday we go back

to the doctor. Had Trev man all checked

out and put him on a RX. He ran fever 

until Sunday night. One of my prayers 

to God that week went something kinda

like this:

God, please lay your healing hands on my

babies and take their sickness away.

God please give me energy so I can be

the best mom I can be.

God, please give me wisdom and knowledge

so I know how to take care of my babies

to the best of my ability.

God, please give me a good attitude. I set 

the tone for the house and I want

to set a good relaxed tone.

God please give me patience so I don't 

walk in and admit myself into a mental

institution!!!

I know God has a sense of humor. On a good 
note, Trev has started soccer practice and
has his first game saturday April 9th. So
excited the season has kicked off. I love
watching him out there having fun!!
I finally broke down and bought a "leash"
for Cruz. He runs all over the place during
the games and practices. 
All I get done is chasing him around!!
Monday he even ate bird poop. I had my 
eyes off him for a few seconds to watch 
Trev's turn and when I turned around he 
was attempting to spit it out. He had 
bird poop in his mouth on his hands....it
was just gross, but kinda funny if you
knew my little Dennis the Mennis!!!
So I thought if I wanted to be able to watch 
Trev's game at all then I was gonna have to
pin him up somehow!! We'll see how it goes. 
I'm sure he will still manage to get into 
some kind of mischief!!

Randoms

Enjoying the sunshine!! It was 

finally warm enough outside

to hang outdoors ALL DAY!!

We totally took advantage of

these nice days!!!

I think this pic of Tryston is adorable!

He is so very handsome.

I'm not sure why every time my kiddos

play outside they feel the need to

strip!! They are always in their undies

at my house. This particular day they

stripped down and played with the

water guns and got very dirty!! So,

it was our first bath in the water 

hose for the year!! Might be our first

but definitely not our last!!

Our friends Fawaad and Julie came over

with their little ashur bug for dinner.

Ashur loves playing with the boys!!

He is so much fun and fits right in at 

my rowdy little boy house. He acts just

like my two!!!

I think this is a cute pic of the boys!!

They have my heart!

Ashur wanted to watch Cars, his favorite

movie, and was just hanging out like a big

boy. Feet propped up, drink in hand.

Aunt Feffy's baby shower

My sweet baby sister is prego with her first 

sweet little baby (and my third baby)! She is 

having a  little boy and naming him 

Beckham Rylee. I love love it and can't

wait to meet him!! I have already informed

them that I have joint custody!! We threw 

her a beautiful baby shower where she received

the sweetest gifts!!! Beckham, get here quick

buddy so we can give you all the hugs and kisses

in the whole world!!! 

She has the cutest little belly.

Just looks like a basketball under

her shirt!!

Feffy with her best friends!!!

Family photo!!

Her husband Randy's grandmother

made this adorable quilt! I love quilts

that are made with love!!! Beckham is

a lucky little boy!

Feffy doesn't like butter cream icing...

i know right!! Who doesn't love icing?

So we ordered half butter cream for 

the normal people and whipped for

the weenies!! The whipped icing turned

mouths green!!! love it.

Love this pic of Aunt Debbie with Cruz!!

We love her, she is the best Aunt ever!!

The boys were content with playing race

cars. Boys  will be boys!!

 My sister Whittney and I made these 

flower cupcakes!!! They turned out

pretty cute. We used black licorice 

and gumballs. We had to put them 

together in a huge hurry but they were

cute.