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The Bunch Celebrate Birthday Week

Of the six people in our immediate family, 3 of us have a birthday with in 10 days of each other. This means that the oldest daughter and youngest son always have a combined party and I spend my birthday planning what they will we do for their birthday. We have so many treats that week that I literally can't even think of butter or sugar with out feeling sick. This year my daughter wanted a movie star theme and my son lego star wars. I call it Hollywood Legos. I made some light sabers from pool noodles, turned the front door into a Lego, and my daughter made a red carpet star walk. We took the kids to the trampoline park down the street, but were disappointed in it. They had fun, but the one we went to for their cousins birthday the month before in Keller was a lot more fun.  My kids had fun though so that was all that mattered.
T in front of my Lego door and with the light saber I made

AJ with her clapboard brownie cake she made.

Her walk of fame.....had the guests names on the stars.

Time for gifts

I do a lot of things well, icing a cake is not one of them. It least it looks like a Lego.

AJ photo bombs my Lego cup picture.


We took off the birthday week from school so we could prepare for the said party without too much stress. One day we went to the Lego castles exhibit at the CR Smith museum. It was really neat. This museum does really neat exhibits in the summer and I highly recommend it if you have kids. 
Nothing like the obvious.

Too Cool!


My big kid played intently for about 45 minutes building his castle! :)

T started basketball last week and really liked it. The girls started floorball. The past 3 years the kids have taken gymnastics and while they are getting really good I want them to experience new things to see what they may like. So T is doing karate and basketball this semester while the girls are doing modern dance and floorball. So back to floorball,  we never have heard of floorball before, we never watch hockey, we have never played in a group sport, and basically have no idea what to do. Not a big deal right, since we are taking a class. We get the girls their sticks and balls and head to our first practice all set to learn how to play. We quickly figure out, once Ashlyn is picked for the face off, that there is no instruction. They kids just play games for the hour non-competitively! You should have seen her face trying to figure out what to do in the face off, all while daddy is screaming instructions from the sideline. yep. We were that family. Needless to say the girls got a crash course in floor ball. We will be giving them some sort of instruction on basic playing and dribbling before the next time. They did leave thinking it was fun so once they learn how to play I think they will really enjoy it.
Our first floorball experience.

Last week she wore an apron and played house with the girls, this week a cowboy hat to play cowboys with T.


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