Continuing on the birthday adventures, we had the boys' birthday this year at Outer Limitz as they both wanted to have a trampoline party (again, that seems to be the theme this year). We had 24 kids that they play football with, classmates etc along with parents, so it was a nice turnout. The kids loved it, as it was complete with an obstacle course, trampolines of course, a spider maze tower and then the arcade (which they got to play one game at the end). It is hard to believe that our Zachary is 10 - where did the years go????
Zachary as a very new baby!
Amy has a "thing" for doing birthday shirts and both boys prefer the sports shirts now, so she's been able to find a shop online that will allow you to put names/ages/pictures etc on them, so this year Zachary got a green skier dude on his, and Kaleb got a really cool fire bird picture on the front of his.
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| Resting in the spider maze tower |
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| Addison and Devin up in the obstacle course |
The boys saw the sports tower cake and decided they needed that, and Miss Fio made them "jumping bean people" for their small individual cakes. It was super cute! Miss Jenn was very busy that week, so she did their special cupcakes and cookies for their classroom celebrations the week after.
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| Still our sweet little guy for a little longer! |
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| If only we could just freeze time! |
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| We gave our gumball tubes in the trampoline colors - complete and ready to go from Etsy - now THAT's the easy button!!! |
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| Mr. K goes in for the jump shot! |
The party started at 10A and was pretty much deserted until we were ready to leave -it was AWESOME. The group pretty much played dodge ball for the entire time, including some of the dads. It was so fun to watch them having a blast!
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| The two birthday boys! |
Amy took in cupcakes from Miss Jennifer to Zachary's classroom on Monday (favorite peanut butter chocolate ones!). He was so excited!
In other news, it was the annual Corporate 5K recently and it is double credit at work (community involvement as well as wellness), so Amy has decided it is a smart thing to participate! Her dear friend Stephanie travels from Texas (she is a remote employee) to do it as well, so we always enjoy walking and talking together!
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| Our walking group (Teri, Harmat, Stephanie, Valerie and Amy) |
That Friday was the day that Amy took off to do something special for Kaleb's birthday - he desperately wanted to go to Congo River, so off we went! It was a lovely weather day for it, so we had a wonderful time and did the treasure hunt as well.
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| Grandma joined in the fun as well! |
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| Our mini-golfing crew |
Afterwards, more begging ensued and as it was a birthday......so they did the "mining" for precious stones and the laser tag game as well. Good thing birthdays only come around once a year!
Last weekend, the boys had their Adventurer campout. Amy decided that after 3 weeks of Addison actually sleeping properly, she was not going to mess it up by taking her to sleep in a tent. So that Friday we went over to the Js house, and of course Addison remembered that Erik, Elin and Addi love to race their plasma cars so she had to be sure to bring hers - even carrying hers in!
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| Strong girl! |
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| Swimming a bit before supper |
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| Afterwards, they had a "tea party" complete with graham crackers and grape juice. They had such a fun time! These kiddos do play very well together for the most part! |
Random picture:
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| How many people does it take to blow out the candles? 5 in this case! |
Event of the week: Kaleb is such a sweet-hearted child, and this week we received a "praise award" from school sharing how at lunch-time one day, a little girl spilled some of her lunch in the hallway and Kaleb immediately ran to the bathroom and got paper towels to clean up her mess, telling the teacher that he didn't want anyone to slip on the floor by accident. We are so proud of you Kaleb!
