Birthday Bashes

This may be a bit of a picture overload, but what can you do when it's birthday time? I missed posting a 'special' blog for Jon yesterday, his birthday, but if you make it to the bottom of the post you can see our fun activities for the day.

As promised, here's the recap of Brooklyn's day. We have made a tradition of taking the kids out to lunch on their birthdays. Unfortunately, this tradition is going to have to be tweaked somehow, seeing as Brooklyn's next birthday she'll be at school.... Anywho, they get to choose their restaurant and unsurprisingly we ended up at McDonalds.


And, they had Shrek toys which made it even better!! After lunch, it was off to school for Brooklyn. She loves school so that wasn't a huge deal. While she was gone, Jon got to work on her cake. Her choice this year? Strawberry Shortcake. There are several versions of good old Strawberry these days, but Jon just went with the retro classic. And, it turned out awesome!

Next came a dinner of Brooklyn's choice just with our little family and Grandparents. We had "steak, potatoes and peas...oh and gravy for those who want it" as per Brooklyn. If you can't tell, she hasn't discovered the tastiness of gravy, yet.

After dinner we did candles and cake and presents. She got lots of fun things, seems we've moved into the "girly" stage of life. She got lots of sundresses this year. I really think they're perfect, too. She'll love wearing them if it ever gets warm outside....
This is one that I made. It's that fabric that has elastic at the top...all I had to do was sew it together, hem the bottom and make some straps. Easy peasy.
That was her actual birthday in a nutshell. Nothing terribly exciting but we tried to make it all about her. It was pretty fun!

Yesterday was Jon's birthday and it was pretty much a normal day, too... Funny how birthdays get less exciting as you get older, eh? However, we did have a birthday party for Jon's side of the family for Jon and Brooklyn. Yesterday was all about Jon's picks (much to his dismay :) he hates making these kinds of choices :)). We had hamburgers and hot dogs for dinner, and then he couldn't decide on a cake so we had Pineapple upside down cake and oatmeal cake. Tasty, for sure.
Brooklyn blew out candles on the pineapple cake....
Then, Jon blew out candles on the oatmeal cake.
And then the kids enjoyed Popsicles while the rest of us had cake :). It worked out great for everyone involved.
I had to get at least one picture with Jon on his birthday, again...not his most favorite past-time.
Good thing he loves me :).
He enjoyed his cake, even if the kids weren't interested :)
Finally, it was present time!! Thanks to his parents, he'll be taking me out to dinner and a movie for his birthday! WOohoo!
And, Brooklyn got some presents, too. Can't go wrong with presents!!!

Happy Birthday to my to birthdays!! They both make my life much better and lighten the load!

On a side note, it wouldn't be Jon's birthday if I didn't mess something up. I was letting his mom make the cakes to be safe, but she ended up needing help (since there were two....). Remember the coconut cream pie incident.... Well, I was mixing up the Pineapple cake and accidentally dropped half of an eggshell into the batter...while the mixer was going... Oopsies! I think I got out all the pieces. Nobody complained about getting one. Oh well. At least it wasn't a disaster like the pie was....