Thursday, May 09, 2013

More April Celebrations

With 2 birthdays and 2 half-birthdays, April is a fun and busy month for our family! We celebrated T's birthday on April 13... Ready for a birthday breakfast..."Happy Birthday, Daddy!" T took RL to a car show near our house that day...here's the little racer! LL and T went out to celebrate her 7.5 birthday just a few days later... The next weekend we went to Gran and PopPop's house for a visit and the kids enjoyed lots of time outside. The girls liked picking and arranging flowers...  Future bulldog? The next week we celebrated RL's 3.5 birthday with a half-birthday dinner date: the first I've ever gone on! We went to Jason's Deli and RL gobbled up a hot dog and fruit and ice cream cone.  This is a super sweet and fun little boy! Two little bulldogs? We'll see... SA was so funny...he started anticipating the flash and squinting beforehand each time I took a pic! Love SJ and SA's great grins!

Tuesday, May 07, 2013

AG's 9th Birthday!

On April 2, our eldest turned 9! We are so thankful for this sweet, bright girl and her thoughtfulness, dependability, and fun ways. We love her from her freckled nose down to her toes! The timing this year was really nice: we got to start the celebration with family when all her grandparents came for the open house the previous Thursday, then on Good Friday the girls were out of school so we all got to have a birthday breakfast before going strawberry picking. Then on Sunday we enjoyed our Easter worship service and lunch with a few friends...here are a few pics. (I am trying to find the good ones of all 5 of our kids on the swing after church, but they are hiding in some unknown folder, I guess!)   Then the girls were out of school all that week after Easter, and AG's birthday was on Tuesday, so we got to just enjoy being home and taking it easier than usual! Then on Friday of that week (April 5), we took a few of AG's friends to the zoo and then came back to our house for pizza, cake and ice cream, and a movie. It was a super fun day with a really sweet group of girls! Check out the peacock in the background! AG requested and helped decorate her butterfly cake... Happy 9th, AG!