Well, we had quite a weekend! On Friday, Cole and Claire turned 5! It was a jam packed day! This year I started preparing much earlier, it was actually a jam-packed week! Nick ended up having to work late Wednesday night, so I had to take all three kids to Open House for Claire's Dance class. Thank goodness Leasha was their with her little girl, Charleigh, to help me control my three kids! Charleigh and Claire will be in the same dance class, partly due to their friendship, but mainly for Leasha and I so we have someone to pass the time with. We will both have other children to be chasing around while the girls are in dance! When we got home from the Open House, we quickly baked the two birthday cakes and birthday cupcakes (for Jane's house). I spent all Thursday evening frosting cakes, cupcakes, packing bags, wrapping presents, organizing ourselves to be gone from 7:00AM-10:00PM which would be filled with birthday activities the next day!
Here is how the day looked!
6:30 Wake up kids
7:00 Open their first bday presents
7:30 Leave for School
8:00 drop off the birthday kids with their birthday treats in their classrooms
8-11 Teach
11:00 Greet my kids and see how their school day was before they walk to daycare
11-3:30 Teach
3:30 pick kids up from daycare and bring them to my school to go swimming
5:30-6:30 Shower and go to dinner
6:30-8 Bday/Anniversary Dinner (Nick's parents) at Huhot with Nick's family
8-9:30 Chuckee Cheese with Nick's family
10:00 Return home!
Whew! While it sounds crazy, it was so much fun! They had a wonderful day!
Can you see what he is thinking here? Can I reach for just one lick?
Claire's first gift she opened.
Claire and her teacher, Mrs. Bromwich.
We weren't going to dinner until 6, but I didn't want to drive home and have to turn around and come back to Cedar Falls, so we decided to go swimming! We typically go to the park, but it was really hot outside on their birthday, and they LOVE to swim. Plus Cane has been sad knowing that every morning I leave him at Jane's house and he knows that Cole and Claire come to school with me. Of course, he thinks we are just going to play in the gym or the pool since that is what he does when he gets to come with me!
We went to HuHot for dinner to celebrate a bunch of things: Deb's Birthday (Aug 25), the kids birhtday (27th) and Deb and Dan's Anniversary (27th). 5 years ago we had to call them back from Dubuque on their anniversary get-a-way to tell them I was in labor, so they will now never get to celebrate their anniversary on the exact day again, at least not alone!
We went to Chuckee Cheese for presents, cake, and a lot of games!
This is the first year we could get close to Chuckee without any of them screaming! Although I am surprised Cane is looking, 95% of the time he had his eyes on Chuckee making sure he wasn't getting too close!
Tim showing the kids how to dance on the screen!
Friday night we got home at 10:00 PM and we were on the road Saturday morning to Grandma McQuinn's. Matt and Sarah were home this weekend so it made their birthday extra special since we hadn't seen them since Christmas!
Matt and Sarah were at a wedding on Saturday, we we spent Saturday evening playing outside! We had a great time playing every sport you can think of, hide and seek, and riding bikes.
I love this! Marcie at 34 weeks.
Sunday was the party! We did cake and opened presents!
Cole and Claire were so lucky! Grandpa has spent the last few months working on very special presents per the request of the kids! Claire asked for a barbie house and Cole asked for a toy box for his room for ONLY boy toys!
We miss Matt and Sarah so much, and I was afraid when they moved to Texas that my kids woudn't remember them from one visit to the next. But that is certainly not the case! They love them! And each time we see them, it is like they just saw them a couple of weeks before! Even Cane did well with them. He of course gravitates to Matt more than Sarah because of his fond relationships with men, Grandpa's are still his favorites though!
It was a great day afternoon, followed by a party at Great Grandma McCumbers which I didn't have my camera for. However, they of course were showered with gifts once again as we celebrated their birthday, along with Pat's birthday! By Sunday night, we were exhausted!
There was only one 10 minute time frame where Cane decided to get off me and run around and be happy. Of course, he wouldn't stand still, so Jerry had to chase him around, up and down the stairs just to catch a couple of him!
A big THANK YOU to Jerry and Pat!
Can you see what he is thinking here? Can I reach for just one lick?
Claire's first gift she opened.
We went to HuHot for dinner to celebrate a bunch of things: Deb's Birthday (Aug 25), the kids birhtday (27th) and Deb and Dan's Anniversary (27th). 5 years ago we had to call them back from Dubuque on their anniversary get-a-way to tell them I was in labor, so they will now never get to celebrate their anniversary on the exact day again, at least not alone!
We went to Chuckee Cheese for presents, cake, and a lot of games!
Tim showing the kids how to dance on the screen!
Matt and Sarah were at a wedding on Saturday, we we spent Saturday evening playing outside! We had a great time playing every sport you can think of, hide and seek, and riding bikes.
Sunday was the party! We did cake and opened presents!
