Birthdays

We were busy celebrating mine and Lydia's birthdays this month.  Garrett was going to be out of town for my birthday, so we celebrated a little early by going out to eat at the Old Spaghetti Factory and then opening gifts the next day. 

Bella got me Michael Buble's new christmas cd!

Paige got me some pretty silver earrings

Lydia got me this cool purple shirt and Garrett gave me a fancy new watch.

Maggie got me the new Harry Potter movie and she wrote me this really cute poem.  It was so sweet!

This is what it said:

Our Mom's Day

Dashing hurriedly to get us out the door

Counting quickly to make sure

All of us have made it: 1,2,3 almost 4

Sighing with a cry of relief

We're all gone like wind to a leaf.

While alone with our sister and brother

Trying hard to be a good mother

You already are, you don't have to try

The thought of you makes the school hours fly by

Now we're home, time to work

Sorry, we're surely driving you berserk.

But, we're trying too

To be good daughters

Getting good grades and helping you and our father.

Now dinner has approached

All your hard work has been acknowledged

Even if it's under camouflage

We're secretly thinking, did you go to cooking college?

Finally now the day's almost over

We're all tired and trying not to yawn

But give up to sleep 'til dawn.

You go to bed early

Because you're tired

Surely you know that you're the most admired.

You work hard each and every day at these professions:

Cook, mother, wife, daughter, maid

You absolutley don't need lessons.

With love, from: your 4 daughters, son and husband wishing you a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

She surely had me in tears while I was reading it. 

 For Lydia's birthday, we just had a family party this year.  We're trying to switch to doing every other year for friend parties.  We celebrated by giving her 4 different clues that she had to open up one at a time and figure out where the clue was taking us.  Her first clue was a word scramble that ending up taking us to the:

BOWLING ALLEY

This is her figuring out her #2 clue in the car.  The next clue was a maze that she had to get through and home was at the end.  We had to get home for Noah's nap, so we thought it would be a good time for present opening. 

She got an alarm clock with a docking station for her itouch.  I also loaded her itouch with a bunch of country songs since she's really liking country right now.  She loved it!

She also got her very own harmonica and a book/cd to help her learn how to play it.  She is constantly playing the one in our camping trailer, so we thought she'd like to have her own.

angry bird t-shirt

new bike helmet

and a new scooter

already a pro!

The 3rd clue was a word search and she had to find all the words to the message, "Happy Birthday Lydia, love, and then each of our names.  Then she had to find two bonus words, which were "Happy Feet".  So, they got to go see Happy Feet 2.  I stayed home since Noah was still asleep. 

The 4th clue was to put together a puzzle that was a picture of food.  She got to pick where she wanted to have dinner.  Out of all the restaurants, she chose Subway.  Oh well, she enjoyed it!  Then we came home and had cake and ice cream.

Happy 9th Birthday Beautiful Lydia!!

Garrett let Noah eat his chocolate cake on top of the table.  You should have seen this kid when he was done!  Lydia got a kick out of it and was laughing her head off!  It was a fun end to a fun day!