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| What a handsome boy in his little suit! |
The month of May is always very eventful at our house! With two birthdays and all of the "end of school" activities, it keeps us hopping! We celebrated Jared's 3rd birthday on May 19th, Sunday. Because it was a Sunday, we didn't do a whole lot. It was a pretty simple birthday with a nice dinner and cake. Jared opened a few presents in the morning and then Oma and Opa came up that afternoon after church and spent some time with us. I made Jared a "Cars" cake.
Heidi got to celebrate her birthday a little early this year with a friend party. We had 9 of her little friends over on May 22nd for a little party. Four of them are from her kindergarten class and the rest are kids from our neighborhood. Notice the little boy to the right of Heidi with the party hat on. His name is AJ and he is in her kindergarten class. He has been the sweetest little friend to her at school. He holds her hand on the way to lunch and carries her lunch for her. He stands up for her at school and "takes care of her" (what he told his mom one day). One day when I was visiting the school, he said to me, "I'm going to be with Heidi forever..." How sweet! Heidi already has young admirers...
For the party, we let the kids come dressed up in anything they wanted. Most of the girls were princesses. We had a few little games with prizes and a rainbow pinata (the highlight) and presents and cake. One fun thing was that Jared also thought this party was for him, too, since his birthday is less than a week before Heidi's. Great! Even better :) Both of them couldn't stop talking about the rainbow pinata all week before the party. We had it hanging up in our kitchen all week. You know they're excited about it when in their prayers more than once they say, "...and thank you for the rainbow pinata." Simple pleasures!
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| Heidi wanted a "horse cake" |
They don't make those pinatas easy to break! After the kids each had a few swings at it, Aaron finally broke it open with a metal bat. We had a shower of nerds all over our carpet!
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| Big Number 6! |
For a second celebration, we took a trip to Boise for Memorial weekend to visit Aaron's parents. On Heidi's actual birthday, we celebrated at grandma's with a picnic and cake. Heidi opened her presents from mom and dad and then got to go shopping with grandma and grandpa. They also took all the kids to a bounce house while mommy and daddy, and Jordan took a much needed nap :)
That afternoon we went swimming and the kids had a blast! Because Erika and Kyle both had their goggles, Heidi wanted to wear some, too. I don't think she knows quite what they're for. I love that they smashed her eyes almost shut and she was still loving every second of it and SOOO HAPPY! It was also fun to see how much Jordan loved the water! I didn't expect him to get so into it, but he splashed like crazy, grinning the whole time.
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| "Yeah, this is the life... I've got it all figured out. I've got grandma all to myself! |
That night we went out to dinner at Golden Corral. We had a great meal and Heidi got to be sung to by the waiters. Erika had fun making Heidi a "unicorn horn" out of a cotton candy stick. Silly girls!
