


Next stop: Sitting on Santa's lap. Hayden asked for a Leapster. Lilly wants a big and small Rapunzel doll (she'll just be getting a big one so hopefully she doesn't remember asking for a small one!!) And Caleb asked for a sled that has a seat belt built in....now if we could just get some snow!

Next stop: The Davenport to see all the trees. We put our names in the raffle to win some good prizes, but never got called....maybe next year! Final stop: Red Robin. We didn't get any pictures, but it was a fun ending to the night!

This last week has been spent getting ready for Hayden's 5th birthday party - transformers theme, picked by Hayden. He wrote his name on the invitations this year...very serious business!

We also took time out to go and watch Hayden and Lilly in their preschool Christmas program. They both did a great job, other than the boy in front of Lilly picking his nose, taking his arm out of his sleeve and hitting her with it and then pulling her hair. We were proud that she didn't slug him, although I wanted too!! Caleb kept busy before the show on dad's phone.


We all went out to dinner with Papa at the Old Spaghetti Factory. It was a fun and memorable night!

Last Saturday, we celebrated Hayden's 5th birthday with his Transformer's party. I wish I was a better cake decorator (as there were several cool cakes on the internet that I could have made) but I went for transformers toys as cake toppers, which Hayden was happy with!


The Optimus Prime gang ready for the fun to begin!

One of the games we played was transformer musical chairs. The kids did a great job walking like robots!

We also decorated "transformer" pizzas

And played Bumblebee vs. Optimus Prime where the kids were supposed to pop each other's balloons. Unfortunately the balloons wouldn't pop, so the evil decepticon, Mark went around popping the balloons with scissors (Hayden wasn't too happy about that)

Hayden opened a lot of fun presents (thanks for thinking of him everyone!!)

Proud to have gotten "Batman and Robin" from Robin!!

Caleb even got into being a transformer too!

Hayden loved his new Bumblebee costume!! (His favorite transformer)

Bumblebee ready to have cake wit his cousins


The birthday crew. Happy to have Robin and Jake, and Trevor and Ashlyn there this year!

After the fun birthday activities, we headed down the street the next day for a fun cookie exchange party. The kids liked decorating gingerbread men and then eating them!


Santa even made an appearance and gave each of the kids a fun Christmas book


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