Brylee's 7th Birthday

October 11th, 2013

Also known as Brylee's 7th birthday.

 Brylee and Jake woke me up a little after 5 am.

I tried to convince them it was the middle of the night.

Brylee crawled in bed with me for a few minutes but the excitement of turning 7 was too much.

We grabbed the brothers and headed downstairs.

Brylee knows for a fact that 100 one dollar bills is way more money than just a hundred dollar bill.

Daddy of course was already at work but left a note for his girl.

Grandma and Grandpa sent $$ and hair color.  She was thrilled!

MiMi and Grandpa Jim sent her requested roller blades.

She practiced until it was time for school.

It was breakfast and books at school that morning.

Next stop book fair shopping.

We walked into her class and her most fabulous teacher had the birthday flag above her desk and treats on her desk.

Her little friend turned in 10 star awards to move her desk next to the birthday girl!

I spent the morning in the 1st grade pod volunteering.  My birthday girl was sent out to give me hugs and give a couple spelling tests to her friends.

I was able to leave just long enough to get her requested happy meal.

After lunch and recess it was time for Brylee to run in her cross country meet.  Parents came to cheer on their runners.

Go baby go!!

Next play time!

I was able to spend the entire day at school.

I watched Jake race and then busted them out of school early.

Brylee left play-dough and tattoo birthday treats on her friends desks and we took off.

We left the boys at home and went to Target to do some birthday shopping.

She played with her birthday presents while we waited for Daddy to get home from work.

Birthday money from Grandpa Wayne.

The birthday girl wanted cake before dinner.

The birthday girl gets....

what the birthday girl wants.

Our princess!

She made a wish, inhaled some sugar and off to Mall of America we went.

1st stop Build a Bear.

Meet Twilight. 

Next stop Buffalo Wild Wings.  

After dinner more shopping. 

Her Mall of America presents.

We shopped for 4 hours.

Getting up before the sun made for one extremely tired 7 year old.

She put in a 17 hour day....

which created some tears at the end of the night.

I held my 7 year old who cried herself to sleep.

Happy Birthday Brylee Ann!

I love you the most!

You are worth more than you can even imagine.

You will always be my Princess!

School Pictures

Brett

7th Grade

Jacob

3rd Grade

Brylee

1st Grade

P.S. I love the marker on your cheek.  It makes it look like a hard working 1st grader.

Science Museum

Never an excuse that you are bored when you live in this neck of the woods.

 

We headed to downtown St. Paul to the Science museum.

 

They had so much fun...

 

that we had to...

 

drag them out...

 

but not to worry we are now members...

 

and will be back for sure.

 

After we dragged them out we took our hungry kids to eat some chicken wings at Buffalo Wild Wings and hang out with all the crazy hockey fans.

Jake's 9th Birthday

October 2nd, 2013 

We started the day way before the sunrise.

Jake tried to wake up by splashing cold water on his face.

The darn camera flash was hard on the eyes at such an early hour of the morning.

But soon he started to wake up.

The tradition lives on....$100 from mom and dad.

Jake's new passion is space.

MiMi and Grandpa Jim knew exactly what to send.

Oh my Jake was thrilled with the money from Grandma and Grandpa.

Toasting with some blood orange sparkling juice.

Jake's favorite fruit is a blood orange.

Next stop breakfast at McDonalds.  The total for breakfast was $9.  Perfect for a 9th birthday.

Pop is a perfect choice for breakfast when it's your birthday.

Good choice for breakfast J!

Headed to school.  The birthday boy of course wanted a ride to school instead of riding the bus.

I delivered his request of Subway for lunch to school.

It happened to be "new kids on the block" lunch.  The new kids get to eat lunch with the counselor and then we had a super secret tour of the school.  We explored the halls and opened doors that were secret.

Brett and I picked up Jake from school because who wants to ride the bus home when it's your birthday.  We headed right to Target to start spending all that money.

Grandpa Wayne sent $20 and Jake found the perfect present to buy.

Time to check out.

The birthday boy then said..."take me to Barnes and Noble."

Dad snuck away from work.....

and met us at Pizza Ranch for dinner.

Next the birthday boy wanted Cherry Berry.

And what the birthday boy wants the birthday boy gets!

The shopping spree lined up.

It was hard for him to spend money.

He must take after me.  

But he got the hang of it and found some cool stuff.

Cake time.

He saved room for one tiny bite of cake.

 

He told me he would tell me what he wished later.

Be still my heart....he wished everyone would know Jesus.

Happy Birthday to my spirited, intense loving 9 year old!

I love you more than you will ever know.