Lars' 40th Birthday!!

 One of us was really excited for this day! Well really the whole weekend :)

And it was not Lars! He was not looking forward to turning 40. Maybe I will feel the same way in a year and a half?

Anyway I was excited though because I had lots of plans in the works and couldn't wait for them to unfold.

I invited his parents to come up for the weekend, so they arrived on Friday afternoon. That was actually supposed to be a surprise, but I ended up telling him because he was about to call and ask them to come.

We just hung out that night, Gunnar had a birthday party to go to and Ashton played with friends while I baked cakes and Lars watched tv with his parents.

Then Saturday we decided to go skiing, just him and me while Nana and Papa watched the boys...they took them to the fun park and lunch.

We had lots of fun skiing alone that day!

 Then we came home and got showered, I told him we had dinner reservations at Elements at 5:30. Grandma and Grandpa Harry showed up while I was getting ready and surprised him. Then Uncle Jordan actually showed up late to dinner and Lars was really surprised by that too. There was an extra seat at our table and he could not figure out who it was for!

Then of course our dinner took FOREVER! I had planned a big surprise party for him at our house after dinner, so I had my neighbor Dana go decorate and let people in and I kept having to text her under the table telling her that we would be later than I thought. I really didn't know if I could pull off this surprise, but when we walked into the dark house and everyone jumped up and yelled surprise and I saw the look on his face, I knew I'd gotten him!

It was so fun!

And funny because all day up skiing he went on and on about how he was glad I hadn't planned some big thing for him etc...etc...!

Party pictures...

What a fun night and when all was said and done, I know Lars was glad I did this! :)
One more surprise up next...

 

Ice Skating...

The boys had a couple days off school a couple weeks ago (for what I can't remember now), and Lars had to work so I took them ice skating one of the days. Gunnar had never really been and it had been a long time since any of us had, so it was mostly fun. After Ashton finally found some skates that would work for him after trading his in 4 or 5 times! Luckily a boy from his class happened to be there, so he was finally happy to skate with him for awhile. Gunnar used a little walker for about 5 minutes, then wanted to go without it and within 10 minutes or so, he was flying around the rink...no problem! I love how this stuff comes so easily to him. He was having so much fun!

Till the very end when he crashed hard. Up until that point he was loving it and was talking about even having a birthday party there, but now he says he doesn't want to go back! Kids!

 Oh and then we went to Chili's for lunch...fun date day with these guys :) 



Ice Fishing...

I'm glad we were able to go out ice fishing the couple times we did, because it is over now with all of this nice weather we're having!

We talked the boys into going one Saturday a few weeks ago and bribed them with McDonald's food (not proud of that) and bringing a friend along.

So we all had a lot of fun. There was no snow at all on the ice, so it was super slick. But we all caught some fish and it was a beautiful day! No need at all for our tent and heater. Can't beat days like that, oh and it was finally a fresh air day after awhile of our Cache Valley winter bad air days. It really affected me this year for some reason. Lots of days I just felt like I couldn't breathe!

Anyway...fun pictures from that day...

 Goodbye ice till next year!

Ashton's birthday celebration with family...

I wondered if this would be the year that Ashton no longer wanted to have a big birthday party with friends and sure enough when I asked him what he wanted to do, he said he just wanted to invite one friend and go to the Jumpzone. So we planned to do that on the Saturday after his birthday. We did also invite Grandma and Aunt Kelli and Boo and the kids. So they all came down in time for lunch (Ashton chose Chinese), then we went to the Jumpzone for a couple hours. The kids all had a blast. Ashton invited his little friend Jake from his class. And I forgot to take any pictures...we got busy watching all of their tricks!

Then when we got home opened presents and had cake...His only request was that it be marble with chocolate frosting. I think this is the simplest cake I have ever made :)

But it was yummy!

 Ashton and his fun gifts he got...

 Minecraft Lego set from Grandma & Grandpa Harry...

 Metal detector from Grandma and Grandpa in Texas...

 Cool remote control car from Kelli and Boo and the kids...

I love Birthdays!