Kaylee's 7th Birthday or Thanksgiving Dinner

Yesterday was Kaylee's 7th birthday. She's been counting down the days for a few months now. Her big day was full of food and friends. And I really do mean food. For breakfast we had overnight cinnamon rolls. I brought her Subway for lunch and chocolate cupcakes for her class. A Thanksgiving meal was prepared for dinner (yep she wanted a turkey dinner), and a strawberry cake with Neapolitan ice cream was served for dessert. It was a yummy birthday!

Kaylee didn't have a party this year, but she did invite one of her friends to come over to our house after school. Kadence stayed with us all afternoon and evening playing and celebrating.

Kaylee's primary teacher from last year came over with her son for dinner, presents, and dessert. My kids adore her She's such a nice person, and it's fun to have her and her son over for dinner occasionally.

When it was time for presents Kaylee pretty much guessed everything she was given before any of it was unwrapped. It was pretty funny. She's just like her dad. It's almost impossible to surprise Chris. As far as I know my dad is the only one who's ever truly surprised him. Kaylee was so excited to recieve an American Girl doll (Felicity). Kadence loved her too. She went home asking her mom for an American Girl doll.

When it was time for Kaylee to blow out her candles she decided to let Kadence help her. We were out of town on Kadence's birthday, so she wanted her friend to be able to blow out candles while they were together. So cute.

After our friends left Kaylee was looking pretty wiped out. She was sniffling a little, so I asked her what was wrong. Her response was, "I'm sad because my birthday is over, and now I have to wait a whole year until my next one." But, after a nice soak in the tub her spirits were lifted and she went to bed a happy 7 year old. Happy Birthday Kaylee! Our family wouldn't be the same without you!   

   

Comics and Video Games

Lately Landon has developed a new love, and it's called comics. A while back he decided to design his own comics. It's fantastic! He can literally sit for hours and draw. All he needs is a ream of paper and a box of markers. And I do mean a ream. His stack of comics grows by the day. 

His drawings started with Star Wars. He has since moved on to Super Mario Galaxy. Technically he's no longer drawing comics. A few days ago Chris was talking to him about how video games start out as a bunch of drawings.  He also informed Landon that he used to design video games. Landon now has a plan for the two of them to turn his paper drawings into the next Super Mario Galaxy video game. He has also decided he wants to be a game designer when he grows up. As the saying goes, "like father like son!"

P.S. He just came in to inform me that he is currently working on a level called "Quicksand Uh Oh." I love this boy! 

Snow In Texas

On Friday the girls stayed home from school due to a snow day. If it snows here we become disabled, and everything is closed. It's great! We woke up to snow covered everything. It was just a light dusting, but it's more than we usually get. We were happy that the schools were closed but the downfall to no school is that they now have to make up their snow day on Memorial Day. Boo!

 

The snow didn't last long. It pretty much started melting right away. By Saturday all that was left was part of a small snowman Kaylee and I had attempted to build. She had wanted a snowman "like the ones they build in Oregon", but her feet were too soaked and cold before we could create one of that caliber.

On Saturday the weather was warm and sunny. We were outside geocaching all afternoon and were getting hot in our long sleeved shirts. Crazy Texas weather!