Busy January

To start of the month, Randy turned 35 (don't tell him I told you).  He hinted to me that he thought it would be fun to have a party, a surprise party to be exact.  I'm not a huge party thrower, that is why my kids only get a party every other year, but Randy has been working really hard to get us out of the circumstances we are in (through school) and so I figured I needed to be nice this year and do something for just him.  My friend Matney offered her house, I got the invites out, and ordered a cake (cuz I can only do so much when I feel like crap most of the day).  Our neighborhood friends, his parents and sister showed up and gave a him a good surprise. (Or so we tried, he figured it out earlier but was a good sport about it).  I, being the lame wife that I am, didn't get any pics except the cake and a video of us singing to him (which I will spare you the excitement).  It was fun and I think he liked it.  Thanx to all who helped out and showed up.

 Last Friday was Micah's 7th birthday.  He had a birthday presentation in class and I brought the class donuts to celebrate.

 His teacher wrote a story about Micah and he read it to the class and showed off some silly pics of himself.

 Gma, Gpa and Kristi came down for dinner and we went to Applebees, cuz that's where the "loud guy" is.  Unfortunately he wasn't there that night, but he still got sung to.

 We came home and ate a Lego cake (I know, not one of my best, but hey at least it was done which is all I can ask for at this moment).

 Oh and at Applebees, there was a balloon lady that made some awesome balloon figures for the kids.  The 1st on the left is a double helix (ya know DNA Strand) she even put two bouncy balls in it for fun. The next is a yellow monkey on a tree, then there are 2 dogs a poodle and a wiener dog and the far right is an octopus, amazing  I know.  This lady was awesome.  Very clever and the kids loved her.

 We didn't have time for our bday pancakes on Friday so we made them Saturday AM.  I just wanted to extend his bday a little, lol. Later that day we finally went to Trafalga to get our pictures taken for our Pass of all Passes.  We played a little black light mini golf, went in an XD Theater ride then Gma and Gpa took the older 3 up to the North Trafalga to play some more while Malia and I went home to rest (since I still don't feel great and Malia was a little under the weather).  The kids had a ball.

 Also this month, Malia's preschool class(es) went to the Dinosaur and Bean museum on campus. I went and helped chaperon (since I usually feel ok till 1).  Malia was crazy the whole time, can ya tell?

 She couldn't sit still long enough to look at anything.  Good thing I only had her and one other little girl.  The other little girl was very well behaved and stayed by my side (unlike my daughter).  It was fun to see everything for eleventy billionth time.  The Bean Museum is always a fun place to go. This is a pic of her teacher showing the kids the butterfly made out of hundreds of little butterflies.  Pretty cool eh?

I can't believe we are already in the 2nd half of January, time sure gets faster with age, lol.