Because we live farther away from family, we decided to celebrate the kids birthdays together in Idaho. It was definitely a busy weekend! We loved getting to celebrate with family. Here are some quick snapshots of the celebrations.
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Opening presents. These kids got spoiled!! |
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Ryker's Thomas cake. |
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Blowing out his "3" candle. Thank goodness for grammy to help! |
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Brinly's "CupCake" cake. |
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She LOVED it!! |
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She loved smushing it between her fingers and smearing it on the tray. |
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My messy girl. |
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Since we were there on Easter weekend, we got to celebrate Easter in Idaho! We went to Community Park and did the Easter egg hunt. I loved how they organized it, but DANG! Those parents are nuts! It was like watching Gladiator with blood thirsty parents! Ryker was in the 3-5 year group and those eggs were picked up in like 2 minutes! The older kids grabbed like 20 eggs each, and then there was Ryker. He was just stunned. When he first saw all the eggs all over he said, "What a mess! Let's clean it up!" :) He did manage to get 3 eggs, and in one of them he scored a golden ticket. So he got to pick out a big prize.
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He was pretty excited about this new bike! |
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I made Brinly's dress and Ryker's tie...however, because of their wiggly nature, this was about the best picture I got.
Obviously, I am not a photographer! :) |
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Our Easter Family. My kiddies look so grown up its scary! |
We enjoyed our time back in Idaho and I'm really glad we could spend some time with our families. I miss being so close to them!