Sunday, March 9, 2014

Eric Turns 33!!

Yesterday, Eric turned the big 33! Sadly he had school all weekend with 2 big projects and presentations to present. He said both went well and he and I are both extremely grateful that they are over. One of his presentations was for his Capstone project. He has been working on it for months now and after working 12 hour days lately, he would come home and spend a couple hours working on his project and presentation at night. I feel like we survived a major milestone in his education and I am so proud of him for working so hard and doing so well. I am proud of myself for not pulling all of my hair out!
Since Eric was at school, we did a little birthday celebrating without him. I took the kids to Krispy Kreme for a Daddy birthday breakfast. 


 Gwen loved watching the doughnuts go through the wall of frosting. 
They anxiously waited for Daddy to get home from school that afternoon. They decorated the house with balloons and signs. As soon as he unpacked from his weekend away, they insisted it was present time!


 Gwen is totally into birthdays right now and helped Daddy open his new camera for his trip to Europe in a few weeks. 

 This picture kills me!! I can't get enough of it! Tessa made her Daddy a special birthday card and taped money from her piggy bank all over it. He opened and yelled, "I'm rich!!". Tessa could not have been more thrilled with his reaction!

 Adam also made a card with some piggy bank money and a coupon for one free day of playing with the kids. Lucky Daddy!!
 He also got some new luggage for his trip. 
 We made his favorite birthday cheesecake and got him his favorite ice cream. Gwen couldn't wait to sing, "Cha Cha Cha!"

 He got all 33 candles in one blow!
Happy birthday to the most wonderful husband and daddy!! We love you and are so proud of you!!

Saturday, February 22, 2014

Photo Shoot-February 2014

Our Presidents Day fun consisted of getting the kids pictures taken and a yummy dinner at In-n-Out. The studio sent us home with 60 pictures! The photographer said there were so many good pictures, she just couldn't delete them . I was so pleased with how they all turned out! Get ready for picture overload and lots of cuteness!!


























Thursday, February 20, 2014

Another Lost Tooth

This cute little boy surprised us when we picked him up from school on Tuesday with another missing tooth! He was thrilled that he lost it at school and got to go to the office to get a special tooth necklace to keep it in. He was one of 3 kids to lose teeth in his class that day! The Tooth Fairy stopped by sometime during the night and left him another dollar! I love his toothless smile!!


Don't mind his crazy recess hair-I promise I send him to school looking and smelling clean. However, he rarely comes home that way. There are important football games to be played with his buddies during recess. 

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Pa turns 60!

Pa turned the big 60 this month and we got together on Saturday to celebrate. We took Pa out for a special birthday dinner at the Banana Leaf and then went back to the house for cake and ice cream. These kids sure love their Pa!! We are so thankful to have such a wonderful Dad and Grandpa!
 We made sure he had 60 candles on his cake! The German flag we put in the middle of the cake didn't even last us lighting the candles. 

 He was amazing and got all 60 in one big blow!!

Happy, Happy Birthday, Pa!!