Happy Birthday to the Ones I Love!

Chris managed to miss getting any pictures taken on his birthday but we didn't miss celebrating.  We made him lasagna and for the first time in a long time Spice Cake!  I finally found a recipe for a gluten-free dairy-free Spice Cake that actually tasted like the real thing!  We had also been piling up gifts over the last couple months of things he'd like but didn't need.  He was surprised and pleased.

For Amber we went a bit more traditional.

Big birthday confetti flood*  and special birthday breakfast.  Pancakes, with a fruit smiley face and special fruit drink.  We normally go to a special restaurant on birthday mornings but its now closed, so we did our best to recreate the experience at home.  Amber likes tradition so it was important to do our best with this.

*This year we used some of the ball pit balls we had bought her for her birthday (by request).

In the evening we celebrated some more with Chocolate Cake!  Additionally, we had a pizza party a few days later with all her Drama club friends.

It's so hard to believe she's now nine, the years go my so fast.  She gets more beautiful with each passing day inside and out.

Man Over Board!

We started Rabbit Day out right this month.  We went (amazingly for the first time) to Lake Jordon to celebrate my friend Jen's birthday.  She had gotten a campsite (since you can't launch boats without one right now) to launch her kayaks from and hang out during the day.  I'm still too much of a T-Rex to go out on the boats but I had a wonderful time chatting with my friend while our kids (and her dog) played around in the water.

They chose to go on quite an adventure, to the beach on the other side of the peninsula.  It started out innocent with Jen, Amber and Lilli taking the three kayaks.  Then the boys decided they could swim over to the beach and join them.  The swim was a bit longer than anticipated and since its around a peninsula it was hard to see.  Next thing I know Jen is walking back into camp.  I asked her why and she said the kids were all bringing the kayaks back.....three kayaks and five kids.....you do the math.  What it equaled was a really funny site.  Since I was laughing too hard when they first came in, they did this recreation....here's the video link.

Can't wait to go back out there soon.  We really need to get some kayaks of our own, just don't know where we'd put them or how'd we'd transport them.