and a First Birthday

The big first birthday for Mr. E, however no big celebration, we don't live close to family and he doesn't know any better! (How terrible is that.) So when D came home for lunch we let him open his present, with the help of big brother, and let him eat cake!

Not a huge fan of the cake, but ate some. No throwing of the cake though like Mr. L.

Birthday photoshoot. :)

Birthdays

Danny and I both recently celebrated our birthdays. We had fun. For D's day we went snowboarding/skiing up the canyon with his parents. Super fun, beautiful day. Two of my sisters and my mom came down for my birthday. It was fun to have visitors. L still loves birthdays more than anything probably. So he was in heaven for all of the above, mostly because it involves all the people that he/we love and cake (something else we all love).







Me and all the kids blowing out my birthday candles.

Birthday Extravaganza Weekend

So Luke has a birthday right next to two of his cousins. Cade is two days before and Olivia the day before, so we all got together and made an entire weekend out of it. We had cake, presents and balloons pretty much all three days. That's never a bad thing. We went to Jumpin' Jacks and the kids spent their energy! Super fun time, except Danny was sick all weekend, and Luke was a wee bit too. But we still had fun. Luke loved all his presents, but believe it or not, I think he was most excited about his package of gum. His friend Kaleb has a birthday three days before Luke and he gave him some gum, Luke asked (for the next two days) where his gum was and could he have it now, and he promised not to eat any until his birthday! There's a pie crust promise for you eh?








Luke is such a fun kid. He's definitely has the "oldest child" syndrome. He likes to be in charge and doesn't bat an eye at telling kids older than him and even adults what to do and how to do it. Probably gets that from me. :| Shocking, I know! But then there is this other side of him that won't even look at an adult if they are paying too much attention to him. He is very cautious about who he talks to and looks at. Gets that from his dad. :) So basically it all depends on his mood, what you're going to get. And we love him to bits!

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Yup, this is my happy birthday to me post. The celebrations actually started a few weeks ago with the lady friends from my old work place. We met up at the Porcupine Grill at the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon. It was dee-licious, as L would say. We had lots of fun catching up. (No comments on the hair please...I know, Maria is calling and she wants her hair back. I'm ready to buy a wig.)













Dan and L made me a cake and Danny made dinner. Tenderloin steak with baked potatoes that were fantastic. I mentioned how L loves the blowing out the candles part of the birthday event. Well he just couldn't wait to put the candles in the cake so I let him before it had totally cooled, and of course the cake melted the candles from the bottom up. It was great cake though. I did receive a lot of birthday wishes today from family and friends which was fantastic. So thanks to all of you for sharing it with me and remembering!

Time is flying

Not sure where March went, but I figured I should post something before it ends. But I've also decided that blogging is hard when your life is pretty mundane and shall we say, uneventful? About the only really exciting thing that happened in March was my fantastic husband's birthday...and that was more low-key than normal because he went to the MWC Tournament in Vegas the weekend of his birthday with my brother. So Luke and I celebrated without him. Well, not really, we waited for him to get back before we ate the cake and blew out the candles. :) It was hard to keep Luke away from the cake though. He loves chocolate cake, and blowing out the "handles" as he calls them. We got a few pictures with Danny and Luke on Sunday with cake and candles. Happy birthday Dan, we sure love you!



Luke is so funny about birthdays now. Ever since his birthday in January he thinks that any birthday that is coming up is his birthday and he gets so excited for cake and "handles." Maybe all kids are like that, I've just never experienced it before so it's still pretty funny to me. He wants to hear all the details about the birthday party and continues to ask "what else mom" until I've exhausted all party options.

The Jedi turns two!

He pretty much had a birthweek celebration. G&G Christensen came down during the week and brought a present to Luke that he thought was fantastic. Then we went up to the cabin on Friday and G&G Summers had presents and birthday cake for him, which he also thought was fantastic. THEN on the way home from the cabin on Saturday we stopped at Carrie's house in Spanish Fork because she made a cake for Luke and Carrie and April both gave him presents that were also... fantastic! Danny and I gave him our presents and made another cake for him on Sunday. He got to blow out candles three times, he loved it! (He had some leftover cake today and wanted candles in it, so I guess four times.) Although he was a little sheepish about being sung to, he would put his head down and rub his eyes the whole time. Too much attention! He gets that from his dad. It's been a great week.

Getting the gear on at the cabin to go out snowmobiling.




Playing with his new Play-doh duffle bag set.





















Opening presents at Carrie's house.

Happy Birthday Dad!

He would've been 75 today! I can't believe it's been 5 years since he passed away. He was a better dad than I ever gave him credit for while he was alive. Maybe that's true for all of us, but then again, maybe it's just me. :) Anyway, happy birthday dad! I miss you.