Birthday wrap up!

My parents came down for the weekend and brought a pitching machine and a tea set to our versatile six year old! She loves both. We played hard, ate well and laughed a lot. It was good.

Lauren breezed in between social engagements with encouraging comments like, "Makenna, since you have only one leg feeling growing pains, wouldn't it be cool if only one leg grew and you had to walk lop sided for the rest of your life?" Can you just feel the love?

Greg investigated her life size Justin Beiber cut outs and noted Justin is wearing lipstick! Lauren all too quickly responded that he was wearing chap stick. He inquired as to how she knew that and she laughed as she said, "because it's mine"! Poor Greg. He just quietly walked out of the room sorry he had said anything!

Ty found a hard hat in our closet and came out wearing it. After a few minutes, Greg put it on and told Kate it was his. Kate exclaimed, "YOU WERE A WORKER MAN??"! For just a brief moment, he was cool because he actually worked! You see, the only cool UPS workers are the ones who bring packages to our door. The rest don't count when you are six. So having a glimpse of Daddy doing something other than boring safety stuff elevated him to someone even more important in her eyes.

On Kate's birthday we had cake, realizing of course that we had already eaten cake balls but it was still raining and I have a sugar addiction when I am cooped up inside.....anyway, check out our little man's chocolate goatee!

Tonight is DATE NIGHT!!!! My parents gave Greg a gift card for dinner and we will stop in at the Home Depot...we do a crazy date night around here! I can't explain our need to stop in the Home Depot every time we get to get out without the kids, but it always seems to happen that way! We don't get out without them much so I suppose it is an excuse to price repairs and improvements without distractions? I don't even care. I am looking forward to holding hands with my worker man and completing a few sentences too.

Have a great week friends!