Megan and Jack's Birthdays

I never got around to posting pictures of Megan's birthday. Her big birthday present was going out with G'ma K, Kylie and me to get pedicures and go out to dinner (which we did in May as that is when G'ma K was here), but we still had a small celebration. Megan decided rather than go out to a restaurant for her birthday, she wanted sushi and root beer floats. She decided she wanted to buy a birthday cake rather than make one and picked out cupcakes with little plastic balloons on each one, which she requested we keep. Her birthday was on a Sunday, so Saturday night we had the Foote's over for hot dogs and hamburgers and had the kids play in the sprinkler in the backyard. We sang happy birthday and somehow managed to stick 10 candles (9 for her years and one for good luck) into one cupcake.

On Sunday, we ate sushi we bought the day before and had the elders (Randel and Robinson) over for root beer floats. Megan opened her presents that night as well. Beth gave her a toy cell phone, Jack gave her a huge water gun, and Kylie gave her a sparkly red microphone. Mom and Dad gave her walkie-talkies that look like cell phones, which were a huge hit :)





Jack's birthday was last Saturday. We asked where he wanted to go out to eat and he requested a trip to Sonic. We lived it up and bought the kids Wacky Packs AND ice cream. They even got to eat the ice cream first! We were going to go watch Beca drag race, but she ended up not racing that night, so Jack requested a trip to the car wash instead.

Saturday we made his cake. He requested a bumblebee cake (bumblebees are yellow, which is Jack's favorite color), so we did our best. There are times when it makes things more difficult to have children who read encyclopedias. This was one of them. The bee HAD to have 6 legs. Then Megan noticed that we failed to give the bee antennae, so we had to add those too :) I think it turned out pretty well though!





For dinner we had hot dogs, Cheetos, and "gananas", all of Jack's favorites. We invited over a family we've been friends with for several years and have recently started doing more with. We met Miss Betsy when Megan started kindergarten; Kylie would play with her youngest daughter, Caitlin, every day while we waited outside to pick our kids up after school. Caitlin has come over several times this summer and Ashley, Caitlin's older sister, started babysitting for us after Brittney moved. Josh is in the middle of the two girls and Jack loves hanging out with him - I think Jack's just happy to be able to hang out with a boy as almost all our friends have only girls. Josh has given Jack a bunch of his old toys; all Jack's transformers and monster trucks came from Josh :) Miss Betsy's husband is a cop and works odd hours, so he wasn't able to make it.

We sung happy birthday and Jack tried to blow out his candles. He blew as hard as he could, but only managed to blow out one candle. It took him about 8 tries to blow out the five candles (4 for his birthday and one for good luck).




After eating cake, Jack opened his presents. He got a bow and arrow set from Megan, a toy Diego cell phone from Beth, and a set comprising of an army guy and a helicopter from Kylie. Mom and Dad gave him a flashlight shaped like the t-rex from Toy Story (it even talks!).


Then Jack opened his BIG present from Mom and Dad!


It was a "Cars" couch that folds out into a bed!!! Jack has slept on it every night since then :)



Jack ended up with quite the birthday weekend as he got a third night of celebration on Sunday night. Kiki had been up at the drop zone on Saturday, so she came over Sunday for dinner and brought Jack and Meg's birthday presents from Nona and Papa. (Nona and Papa have sent online birthday cards for each of our birthdays - isn't the Internet awesome? - and Jack was able to email them back with my help.) We were even able to get Nona and Papa on skype for a few minutes so they could watch as Jack and Meg received their presents! They got Russian coloring books :) Megan has already colored several pages in hers :)