Birthday Celebration

The boys really wanted a big birthday party with friends and presents and games. I told them I just couldn't do that sort of thing without Daddy here to help me. Instead I planned a fun trip to Nuremberg. We spent all day Saturday celebrating at PlayMobil "fun park" with our friend Tammy. They have a great big indoor climbing area and then a room full of play mobil toys that you can play with. At the exit is a little shop with play mobil toys and the boys picked out a gift with the money Oma and Opa sent them for their birthday.

Hyrum is in Georgia now, one more step closer to home!

Tammy, Townsend and Emerson climbing around

Julian having fun scooting along and practicing his balance

The boys up in the rope bridge

Townsend playing with the play mobil toys

This is the gift they picked out at the end of the day. They each picked out the same thing, all though Townsend originally picked out a pirate ship, but then changed his mind to be like his brother.

Happy Birthday Townsend and Emerson

This has been one crazy day! It started off with the boys waking up way too early because they wanted to open their birthday presents. I told them they had to wait until after school and then Emerson had a melt down and was very upset with me. I told them it would give them something to look forward to all day but I guess 6 year olds are more into the "instant gratification" thing.

I spent my morning making "cake and ice-cream" shish kebabs. A very good idea in theory but not such a great treat when it has to be transported and then passed out to 40 little kids. It's a good thing kids in kindergarten don't care about presentation because they looked pretty awful by the time they got them but they still tasted like cake and ice cream, so it was all good.

When the boys got home I had made them their favorite treat, caramel biscuits, and they opened their presents. They seem to be pretty happy with what they got, which I am happy about. It's hard to shop for gifts right after Christmas because you pretty much gave them everything you could think of at Christmas....well not everything, but you know.

They wanted hot dogs, chips and root beer for their birthday dinner, which makes life easy for me. And then to end the evening we had an ice-cream cake. What a day!

Sorry this post is so long, it's sort of a play-by-play for Hyrum who is in Kuwait at the moment.

Townsend enjoying his birthday treat at school

This doesn't have anything to do with his birthday but I thought it was pretty cute that he was reading in the tub with his friend Jacob.

Emerson with his birthday crown and treat at school

The birthday gifts

Townsend really liked this gift

Little man Jules enjoyed all the excitement, and the ice-cream cake!

Emerson opening up some gifts

The birthday cake. It was sort of sad singing "Happy Birthday" all by myself...we can't wait for Daddy to come home!!!

What's with my kids?

Do all kids do this with the plastic shapes that come with the Fisher Price shape sorter...or is it just my kids?

Emerson, January 2005

Julian, January 2010

How do you ring in the New Year?

What better way to celebrate the ending of one year and beginning of another than torching your Christmas tree? There are definite benefits to living in the middle of nowhere!