Happy 13th Birthday Hunter!!!

I love this boy. We had such a wonderful night for his birthday! After track pictures Lance and I whisked him off to a night with mom and dad! We took him shopping so he could choose exactly what he wanted.



Then we went out to dinner at his place of choice (Applebees :) then home for cake and ice cream with the family.

He is an amazingly gracious young man. He kept saying that he wanted to go where we would like to eat. He only spent half of what he was allowed to spend on presents! He kept wanting to make sure that we were enjoying ourselves too. We were LOVING every minute!!!


He is a sweetheart. He is always complimenting and trying to understand people in different circumstances. He has always been my affectionate one. I am so glad he has such a kind heart and is such a wonderful example and asset to our family :)

PS Shylee, being a sweet daughter, made the cake while we were out and about!!

It's Great to Be 38?!

Rider and I were having a lovely drive back from dropping kids off at track practice. He was rambling on about his life as a 4 year old. He then takes a completely different route in the conversation and asks me


"How many are you?"

I looked at him to make sure that he really wanted the facts and he asks again intently

"How much are you?"

With a smile on my face, wondering how this was going to go, knowing that he rarely even counted that high on the number line, I said

"38."

And this was his response (I had him rein act the face, which actually doesn't even do justice to the original.




After his quick realization that he doesn't speak old people he immediately pulled a U turn in the conversation and got back on course with his previous conversation (that didn't include the number 38).

Happy 10TH Birthday Trapper!!

Today is Trapper Talkeetna Allen's 10TH birthday! During the day we went to the matinee of The Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Rodrick Rules.

Fisher got to skip a day of school to party with us! Trapper is home schooled, and he didn't have to do a stitch of work today either!

YAY!

They wanted to take a picture in front of Hop, just for fun!


After that we went out for pizza, then came home and had cake and ice cream with everyone and opened presents!!!


The kids were so full of dinner and treats that they didn't have one bite of cake or ice cream :) In the pic of his cake, you will notice the little koala bear, Rider was dying to include!



Trapper said it was the BEST BIRTHDAY EVER! That means a lot!