Miriam's Fifth Birthday

We were so lucky this year that Baca got to take off a day of work so we could celebrate for 2 days! My parents came up Thur night and we played and played all weekend. First we went over to Aunt Nicole's clubhouse to swim around 11ish. I believe it was Benjamin's first time swimming and it was a little cold for him and Rachel. We really love swimming!

After naps we went to get Miriam's pictures taken at Target while Baca entertained the other kids. For dinner we met up over at Chuck-E-Cheese and had a great time! I hope you can see some the great pictures from Chuck-E-Cheese with our guests- Grandma, Baca and Aunt Dar (ie Jennifer). I love how much my kids enjoy being with each other for the most part. What a great day!

Saturday, her actual birthday with the traditional strawberry waffles though the kids seem to like whipping cream better than ice cream on their waffles. Yum yum!

With Easter approaching Grandma and Baca wanted to help us decorate our Easter Eggs. We loved having extra help. Aren't our eggs beautiful?! It's fun seeing them get more and more into decorating. we wanted to go on a picnic and have an egg hunt, but it snowed us out so we decided to have our picnic inside.

We had a picnic of mashed potatoes, chicken, strawberry pop, grapes and potato chips (aiming at a picnic, some of Miriam's favorite things. Picnic went well except for a couple of spills. Also a lot warmer than outside!

 Miriam with our usual balloon bouquet, and helping Grandma with her Rapunzel cake. She got to open her presents Saturday after the picnic and got lots of cool things. Like a bike helmet so she can learn to ride a 2 wheel bike. Grandma and Baca also took her over to Kmart to pick out something.

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Aaron told me the other day, "You make things so hard for me". Of course I was puzzled, we were trying to get everyone ready to go with shoes to go over to the babysitter so I could go help with centers at Miriam's school. He said it was because I made him clean too much. Oh brother, I got so tired of nagging, bribing and threatening I really haven't asked them to do anything for awhile except get dressed, put their dish in the sink and get their pjs on. In the car he continued I wish I was the only one in the house so I wouldn't have to do anything and could eat whatever I want whenever I want. Also note I have never asked them to do anything on their own I'm always doing it with them.

Story number 2 on Aaron. He was so excited when Eric came home from deer hunting with "deer horns". He went around saying deer horns like a battle cry and waving them around. It was hilarious.