Alaina's 11th B-day

Today was full of Surprises for Alaina. As soon as she headed out the door to school Dan, Hudson and I got to work on her birthday surprises. She had no idea what was in store for her.

Surprise #1: Hudson and I started on her birthday cake. We used food coloring in white cake mix to make a rainbow surprise cake. We frosted the outside of the cake white and plain so it would be a big surprise when she cut into it.

Alaina has been wanting a chair, like the one below, since Christmas so that's what we got her. After I purchased it though I started thinking about where she would have room to put it. That lead to surprise #2. While Hudson and I were working on her cake, Dan went into the girls room and stacked their beds up into bunk beds so we could do a little surprise bedroom makeover.

Here's a few pics of how it turned out.

Surprise #3: We picked all of the kids up (except for Alaina) from school today instead of having them ride home on the bus. When we got home we set up a surprise scavenger hunt for Alaina. With all of the pieces to the hunt put in place....the family waited in her room for her to get home.

She got off the bus and came to the front door to find her first clue to the Hunt which lead her to her 4th surprise. A Letter From Grandpa and Grandma Rose with a ticket to the Lion King in Portland coming up in June. She was stoked and couldn't wait to see where else this journey would take her.

After visiting her play house, the trampoline, her favorite climbing tree in the side yard and another dozen clue locations, she ended up back at the front door to see her final clue leading her into her room.

SURPRISE!! We all yelled as she entered her new and improved "Crib". Chair and all. Room make over, new rug, spic and span clean, new chair, and a loving family excited to show it off.

The rest of the afternoon was spent opening gifts, eating cake, singing happy birthday, giving her birthday spankings, and all the rest of the stuff that goes along with turning 11 years old.

Last but not least.....she has been wishing for a bike since last year. The one she has is way to small and falling apart. Long overdue for an upgrade. Her birthday wish came true with surprise #5.

Now she can keep up with Little Brother Ky on his new wheels.

Happy Birthday Alaina!

Quesadillas

Dan took Kase and Hudson to Taco Bell for lunch today. When going through the drive through he asked the boys, what they wanted for lunch. Kase began describing the kind of "cheese only burrito" that he wanted. He was really talking about a cheese roll up, but Dan didn't know that, so he assumed Kase wanted a cheese quesadilla. Jax wasn't answering so he just ordered them both a quesadilla.

Once the food was purchased Dan started passing out their lunch. He said, "Here you go Kase, here's your quesadilla, and Hudson... a quesadilla for you." Hudson wasn't happy Dan got him a quesadilla for lunch, he wouldn't take it and just kept saying, I don't want a quesadilla."

After insisting that he definitely didn't want the same thing Kase was eating, he said with authority that all he wanted was for Kase to eat his own "KASE-adilla", he would eat his own "HUDSON-adilla", and dad could eat his own "DAD-adilla".

Too Funny!

So to clear this up for everyone, and so you don't have to go through the same confusion when ordering at Taco Bell I have included a picture of what a Hudson-adilla looks like.

Not to be confused with a Kase-adilla:)

Kase's first elementary school performance

We just went to Kase's 1st performance, as an elementary schooler. It was about the Little Red Hen and all of her baby chicks. It was short and sweet, and super cute. Also quite a coincidence that just today a few of their very own baby chicks had hatched in their classroom. All of the kids were really excited to be back at the school during night time hours to check on them.

Kase had a little speaking part in the performance. His lines were, "And sure enough... the little red hen had to make the bread herself." He nailed them of course! :)

Kase passing time

Any guess what our kindergartner enjoys doing as he waits for his older siblings to get home from school?? Can anyone say iphoto booth on my laptop :)

I set up my laptop for him to play on Nick Jr. or Webkinz and then after getting my computer back realize he has been sitting there taking crazy pictures of himself for the last 30 minutes.

This was one of my favorites from today's batch.

Ky's 10th Birthday!

It's my Birthday, it's my Birthday!!!

For Ky's 10th birthday he invited 7 of his favorite friends over to celebrate. They road the bus home after school with him. As they walked through the front door the birthday party was set up and ready to go. (Sign in the yard, banners, cake, and balloons.) After doing the "Happy Birthday" song and getting them all sugared up we did a quick round of gifts before racing off to the movie theater to catch a 4:15pm showing of "How To Train Your Dragon."

Considering there were eight 10 year old boys with me, there wasn't too much chaos, it was actually a fun movie and we had a really fun time!

(Tyler, Drew, Kyle, Alan, Alex, KY, Bryce, and Chance)

Happy birthday bud!

Easter Eggs

On your marks...Get set...GO!

DONE!

Not so sure we can eat 5 dozen eggs as fast as the kids just painted them :)