Birthday Fun

First of all, THANK YOU! for all the fun birthday wishes and memories. I loved it. I had forgotten about some of those fun/funny things we had done together. Thanks friends!

I had a really wonderful birthday day. I spent the morning exercising and showering when I wasn't running kids to school. After I picked up the boys from preschool we met up with a friend for lunch at Jason's Deli. Yummy. We had a nice, long lunch at a restaurant without a playplace. The kids were really very well behaved and ate their food. After lunch we drove across the street to the mall where I bought myself some new makeup at Clinique and got my free gift. Always fun. Next we hit up See's for some birthday chocolate, then ended the outing at the little play area. It was a good outing with happy kids.

I spent the afternoon reading and relaxing. Definitely not doing the millions of chores and such that I knew I would have to do on Friday. Ian bathed the kids and put them to bed while I picked up Pei Wei takeout for dinner. We ate and watched shows together. The night was capped off with a cupcake with a candle in it and a little Happy Birthday serenade from my thoughtful hubby.

Friday was hectic, but I did get to meet up with another friend to check out the new Chick Fil A at Fort Union. Mostly my impression of it was that it was crowded. :) After lunch we swung into Target to pick up the photos of the kids we had done last weekend. They really aren't my favorite pictures, but they are ok, and I'm glad to have a photo of Talia for the living room wall.

This morning we had an early ward conference meeting/training. That meant that I had to leave early so I would have an hour to get things ready for Davin's Toy Story birthday party. The party was actually really low key and fun. He loved it.

We had pizza, chips, apples, root beer, and capri suns for lunch. After we ate, the kids ran around playing for awhile. Once they were rounded up we played pin the badge on Woody. Ian made each of the kids really cute badges. Davin's said Sheriff Davin and the rest of the kids were deputies. That was about all the organized game playing they were up for, which worked out just fine. Next we did cupcakes and sang to Davin. He was so funny about blowing out his candles. He did them in short little bursts of air, so it took him two tries to get them all out. :)
Lastly we opened presents. He got a new set of Thomas train tracks to add to his collection (which he has been very into playing with in the last month or so). He also got a new Jessie action figure and a set of color changing Cars characters. His friends gave him a Nerf gun. He loves it. Tara apologized to me after he opened it, but I don't mind. I assumed Nerf dart guns were part of the deal when I had boys. Also, the boys aren't strong enough to cock the gun themselves, so I have a good regulation on it. After some more playing with toys and the adults visiting everyone headed home. I think it was a success. Davin loved it and said "I haff birfday gain?" Lucky for him he still has an actual birthday day this next week and will get to have just as much fun again. Love that boy!