Birthdays

Birthdays hit at our home for Maddox, Kurt, and I. Mine is near the end of September and Maddox and Kurt start October. I am inching closer and closer to thirty (27)....eew! lol. Kurt took the kids and I to breakfast and then we attempted to hit the beach, out near Carpinteria. Unfortunately the weather was pretty ugly for a beach day, I was freezing!! My idea of a beach day is HOT HOT HOT! I stayed on the blanket wrapped in a beach towel and all my clothes the whole time. I was not about to change into my swimsuit...brr. I had fun watching Emmitt and Alaina run around and dig for sandcrabs. Kids are so oblivious to cold weather. Alaina is a bit more like me though she would be fine for about 5 minutes then have to snuggle up to get warm. Crazy Kurt decided to go in the water! Later that evening, Eliana came over to babysit. Kurt and I went to WinCo got some goodies and hit up the dollar theater. (pretty much my 2 favorite things about Bakersfield- WinCo and dollar theaters) We saw Cowboys and Aliens, and we were the only ones in there. It was pretty awesome, we both really liked the movie.

Maddox' birthday is the day before Kurts and he turned 2! I wrapped his presents that morning and he came walking into the kitchen saw them sitting on top of our microwave all wrapped up and got super excited. Funny how at 2 they already know. He made this squeal of excitement and kept pointing at them saying, "presents presents!" I told him they were for him because it's his birthday and he shouted, "YAY!!" I then told him he had to wait though until his brother and sister were home from school and he politely said ok. Then I went upstairs to tell Kurt how smart Maddox is, when we came back down Maddox had a present partially unwrapped in his hand! He pulled a little covert op and dragged a kitchen chair over to the microwave and then climbed up and grabbed a present, hid behind the table and ripped the paper off. Time to start locking things up around here. He looked so cute with his guilty face holding paper in one hand and his present in the other.

When we came over to him he just gave us this cute puppy face and said, "choo choo." ha ha. How can you be mad at that? I just let him have it and took the other 2 gifts upstairs. We had a nice little family celebration at home. Maddox loves choo choo trains so we got him a set and some Chuggington train cars.

For Kurts birthday (32), he had scheduled work so the following weekend I planned for us to do a little getaway with his parents. We drove out to Palm Springs and stayed in a nice resort there, and got some much needed downtime. It was conference weekend so it worked out perfectly. We got to relax and actually watch (and hear) conference. We ordered room service, and went dancing. It was a very nice relaxing weekend.

Like Father, Like Son. Emmitt digging in on Maddox' leftover birthday cake, and Kurt chowing on his leftover banana cream birthday pie.