Happy Birthday Lillie

Lillie turned 7 last Thursday. I can't believe she is getting so grown up. She is such a sweet girl and a great sister for her 2 rambunctious brothers. She really wanted a big friend party but we (Ben) decided that we weren't gong to have big friend parties every year. She has had one for the last 2 years so we kept it slightly lower key. We took her and her brothers to Chuck E Cheese and then had family over for cake and ice cream later. Here are a few pics from the festivities.

She got lots of fun stuff, like always but her big gift this year was a bigger bike. I was a little nervous about how she would handle a bigger bike but she did great. Here she is waiting for the big reveal.

All she wanted for her cake was "pink with toys on top" so here it is in all of it's pink and toy glory. Boring I know but there you have it.


In a totally unrelated story Friday night there was yet another storm. This one ended with an amazing double rainbow. Here is one of the pics we took. Sorry we live in the suburbs so there was no shooting around the neighbors houses. But you get the idea.

Happy Birthday Ben

Saturday was Ben's Birthday. We had a fun day celebrating. In the morning Ben and I went golfing with Ben's dad. It has been quite awhile since I golfed but it was a lot of fun. Ben wants me to start golfing so bad that he bought me a new set of clubs for his birthday...he is so sweet. For not golfing in about 5 years I think I did pretty good. That night we went to the new Star Trek movie. Because we have a theater room we don't go to a lot of movies so it is always fun to go a real theater.

Happy Birthday Ben! I love you and am so grateful to be married to you. I hope you had a good birthday.

That is so last year

I know I just posted a funny kid conversation but this is classic. This is part of the conversation between Lillie and Joseph this morning over breakfast:

Lillie: That is so last year (talking about Joseph's regular butter and maple syrup choice over her peanut butter and strawberry syrup preference)
Joseph: What does that even mean "That is so last year"?
Lillie: It means it isn't popular anymore. That is what they did last year.
Joseph: Whatever they had peanut butter and strawberry syrup last year, they were invented in the 90's.

I love listening to them when they don't know you are listening...they say the funniest things. I guess I will have a lot of time for that since to day is the last day of school. Oh I hope I am ready for this. I think I can, I think I can, I think I can...I can right?

Best mom ever

Lillie: You are the best mom ever!
Me: Thank you
Lillie: Even if you are kind of mean sometimes and you don't do very much; you are still the best mom ever.
Me: Thanks?