Birthday Fun

The Birthday Boy showing me his ice cream moustache and beard

Ashten thinks its fun to sit inside the ball catcher at the bottom of the basketball hoop and AJ just wants the ball back!

Ben and Sarah VanderHoeven

This morning Valerie and I tried to take the kids down to the Fife Community Center for some toddler/prechooler time but unfortunately (even though I have a child born on THE holiday, we forgot that it was a holiday, therefore they were closed. So the next best thing is McDonald's I guess. Too bad for us everyone in Federal Way/ NE Tacoma also thought this was a great idea. At first the 8 of us shared a table with someone the VanderHoeven's knew. After that lady left some of Valerie's family showed up making 14 people and we got to at least have two tables for a few minutes until we were eventually pushed back to sharing one table. I have never seen so many people at McDonald's before it was crazy. Anyways, the kids had fun playing together and enjoyed some ice cream before we headed over to DI. The kids love going there and when I asked Ayden what he wanted to do on his birthday that's where he wanted to go.

Aunt Kristin and Uncle Wes invited Ayden and Ashten to go see Madagascar II with them. So Uncle Wes came and picked them up. They seemed to like the movie and Kristin said they were good boys.

Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting!

Anderson, Ashten, Ayden, and Gavin playing DDR before the movie
Cassi invited us to go to the dollar theater to see Kung Fu Panda. Although the kids were a little wild in my opinion, the theater was mostly empty. I was probably more stressed about it than I needed to be. I brought lots of snacks to keep the kids occupied, I had no idea what to expect as this was AJ's first trip to the movies (other than when he was a nursing baby.) He isn't really interested in watching TV or anything but there was a few times when he would sit and watch and then just bust up laughing. It was SO cute. After the movie, everybody was kung fu fighting, those kids were fast as lightning, in fact it was a little bit fright'ning....HI-YA!

Movie Day

Aren't they adorable
Ashten while scrounging for food this morning found a microwave popcorn. So I had to make a deal that they couldn't have it for breakfast but they could have it after nap time. So pretty much as soon as Ashten woke up he got this huge grin and said, "Mooommmmyyy, Poppppcorrrrn." in his sweetest voice. So Ashty set out all the blankies and we popped the popcorn and got AJ some cereal in a bowl..I just couldn't resist taking a picture they looked so cute sitting there all in a row and even AJ watched "Cars" with the big boys. At least til his cereal was gone.

Horton Hears A Who

Today Grammy called to see if the boys wanted to go to the movies to see Horton Hears A Who. How lucky for us to live close enough to family who is willing to take the kids out. Ayden and Ashten had fun and Mom said they did good sitting still and paying attention. She also said how cute it was that Ashten was laughing out loud, which he got from Armand. Anyone who knows Armand, knows that he is the loudest person you will EVER hear at the movie theater. One time before we were married we went to the movies on a double date with my best friend, Megan and her date Matt which is one of my brother's best friends. We went to see Toy Story (I think) and he was SOOO loud (it was probably one of the first movies we went to with eachother), I was so embarrassed. Anyways, when we got out of the theater and were talking about the movie he said it was a stupid movie and I was like WHAT are you saying? You were laughing your head off the whole time! Now I find myself laughing louder at movies but usually not in public.

So anyways, it was nice to have a little break, I was hoping to have alone time with AJ but of course he slept the majority of the time. So what do I do? Clean:(