Happy Early Birthdays To Us!

As some of you know Alan will be leaving for a deployment real soon. Unfortunately he is going to miss all 3 of the kids birthdays and my birthday/our anniversary. We decided to have a little birthday party for all of us on Friday so that daddy could celebrate with us. We started out with a yummy dinner at Olive Garden where we surprised the kids with a secret we have been keeping (no, we are not having a baby!)...as a last hurrah before Alan leaves us for awhile, we are taking the kids to Disney World! They were very surprised and are very excited to go...3 more days and we're off! After dinner we headed to Build-a-Bear and let the kids pick out a stuffed animal and an outfit. Once the animals were complete it was back to home for cupcakes! We sang Happy Birthday to the kids individually and they even sang to me too!

Braden picked a monkey
Bailee picked a pink bear with flowers on it which happens to be the seasonal bear for spring

Brikelle picked a pink monkey all by herself!

Here they are stuffing their animals

Here they are bathing their animals

Here they are filling out the birth certificates and naming their animals

And here they are all complete! Braden has a firefighter monkey named Braden, Brikelle has an all pink monkey named Monkey, and Bailee has a pink bear named Flower

Brikelle knew exactly what to do after we sang to her...she tried and tried to blow out that candle!

Happy Birthdays to us!

She would not let us take the candle out of her cupcake...she just ate all around it!

I just stuck this picture in for fun. On Saturday we had a get together with people from Alan's work. The home we went to was on a large piece of property and beautiful. The kids had so much fun outside running around and especially playing with the dog. Braden liked the dog but Bailee and Brikelle LOVED the dog. Bailee played with her for a long time and Brikelle followed that poor thing all over the place. Does it make us want a dog? NOPE! Three kids are enough for us right now!