Birthday Season!!!!

We are working our was through Birthday season in our house...three down, one to go:) Poor Luke...he's going to start wondering why everyone he knows (including Aunt Kel and Aunt Key) get a birthday and he doesn't!

Craig was on March 7 and we had lots of fun celebrating for two weekends in a row. We went to dinner the weekend before with my parents and my Aunt Patty to Olive Garden and had good fun, great presents and a fantastic cake that turned our mouths really fun colors (as well as Luke's diapers for the next two days)!!! On his actual birthday weekend, we had dinner at the best BBQ restaurant in Texas(made famous on Food Network AND Travel Channel...The Salt Lick) on Saturday night with Kelly, Chris and Emma. Some of the people in our group made good use of the All you Can Eat BBQ:) Finally, on his actual birthday we had breakfast at Denny's (highly recommend on your birthday...FREE Grand Slam breakfast, FREE dessert AND they sing to you!!!) followed by dinner at Benihana with Craig's dad (and the boys LOVED it!!!).

Note...following Craig's multiple celebrations...we are in desperate need of some dieting!!!

Today was the dual celebration of me and my Moose:) We woke up nice and early (thanks Luke at 5:15) and Matt was super surprised to see the "biggest cupcake in the whole world" made just for him and served as his breakfast! The rest of us got to enjoy normal sized ones so we all had a yummy breakfast:) Breakfast was followed by presents and Matt got everything he dreamed of and then some! He was spoiled rotten by everyone he knows and is a very lucky boy! I also made out quite nicely...thanks to everyone for all of the wonderful gifts:) We went to lunch at Chuck E. Cheese with our close friends, The Licht Family, as well as Matt's good friend Trent from Preschool:) Two hours, four pizzas, way too many tokens, more cake (a giant Oreo at Matt's request), more presents and lots of fun later we had successfully celebrated Matt's big day:) We finished off our night at Olive Garden as a family and the kids were actually pretty well behaved which was one of the best gifts I got!

We now officially have 2 five year olds in our house for the next three weeks which is very exciting in the minds of those that are five and are almost done with this crazy Birthday season!!!

Texas Day...Part 2!!!

Today we had Brian's Texas Day at Kindergarten:) He was as cute of a cowboy as his brothers were and had SOOOOO much fun on his big day. They had a parade, danced in the gym, had a barrel racing contest, made a trail mix, went for wagon rides (the fifth graders pulled them all over the school) and even tried out roping a calf! One of my favorite pictures is the very last one...only in Texas:)

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Texas Day!

It's Matt's week for parent helpers at preschool since his birthday week is over Spring Break. Daddy went with him on Tuesday and they had so much fun having Matt's "SuperMoose (not Superman!!!) party" at snack time and spending the day together:) Today was Texas day which is a HUGE celebration at preschool...Matt had Uncle DJ there for this one:) Matt, Luke and Uncle DJ all dressed up like cowboys for a day of fun, pony rides, Texas crafts, digging for gold, a hot dog BBQ and even a popsicle party at the end:) Matt was also Star of the Week and shared his favorite things with his class, as well as read them a story all by himself!!! I had the opportunity to get SOOOO many cute pictures as the weather was beautiful...the only problem today was that Brian was at real school and had to miss all of the fun:( The good news is he gets his own Texas day tomorrow:)

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Our new cousin...Emma:)

Aunt Kel and Uncle Chris had Emma on Feb. 2 and the boys have been able to spend a few days with her. We went to Houston and saw her the day she got home from the hospital (since the boys weren't allowed at the hospital...flu season rules!!!) and spent two days with her. Last weekend Aunt Kel & Uncle Chris brought her to Austin to spend the weekend watching the boys basketball game and celebrating Craig's birthday. I had my own fun when I painted her toenails for the first time:) Kelly was nice enough to let me have my fun since I live in testosterone land:) Lukey is in love with Emma, very concerned when she cries and is very much liking having a person closer to his own size around;)

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