Sunday, November 5, 2017

Abram's Sixth Birthday!

This October we celebrated Abram's sixth birthday! I can't believe he is six and in kindergarten. Two things about our family.  
1. We do birthday's big. That is YOUR day. We don't do Christmas big, but birthdays, yes! In fact, we have a birthday week. 
2. We do parties every other year. This doesn't mean we don't celebrate every year, it just means we don't have a big party.

Some of our traditions during the week are: a surprise every day, you get to pick our meals for the entire day, your room is filled with balloons when you wake up (Abe still wonders where they come from every year.  So cute!), and of course the house is decorated all week long. :)



The first day of birthday week. Popsicles for everyone at our local popsicle shop, The Hypoo. So good!

Abram's most favorite breakfast: green eggs and ham, raspberries, and juice. He's in heaven!


On our way to school. He wanted to wear his birthday pin and shirt!! 

Abram's birthday dinner this year consisted of hot dogs, macaroni and cheese and watermelon. He has made friends with two brothers from our church and he nicely asked if they could come over and play and eat dinner with us. Of course, yes! It was so easy and fun and Abe was thrilled! Thanking the Lord Abram made sweet friends in time to celebrate his birthday with.


I  love his smile while looking at the cake!

Since this was our off year, our birthday celebration entailed surprising him with a weekend trip to Legoland.  We picked him up from school with the car loaded and headed on our way. He was so surprised. Chris and I have had this trip planned since May, it has been so very hard to keep the surprise!

We got there at night, but the boys still had fun exploring.

The bungalows we stayed in. So cute! Everything was Lego themed. They thought of everything.

Chris and I decided this was our most favorite place to eat with our family, ever! No only was the entire place Legos, but EVERY table had kids which meant it was so loud. We fit right in!

Saturday morning we started our day at Legoland! Abram couldn't wait and Jack and Luke were pretty excited, too!

The first Legos we saw and Abe was thrilled. They are characters from the Lego Movie!

Abram's most favorite part of Legoland was trading mini figures. He could trade with all the workers and every couple of hours this booth opened and he could trade his mini figures one at a time.

This was my favorite part... the HUGE figures made entirely out of legos. They were everywhere. I told Chris I want to know the number of Legos in the park-- I know its crazy!

Love this picture! Of course when Abram saw it he said, "You know thats not a happy smile, it actually hurt when I was laying in the lego pit. Thats why I'm making that face." 

Drivers License! 

All legos...

This one, too...

And him!

This pirate was walking around while we were eating dinner. Abe loved him. The boys, not so much!

Another favorite part of the park was these toddler play places. They had them across from every roller coaster ride which meant they could play while we waited and not just sit in their stroller. Genius! 

Jack and Luke equally had a good time. There was plenty for them to do! Boats, fire trucks, cars, tractors, trains!






Jack was the only one who wanted to ride the carousel. He was so excited!!

Okay, so I saved our favorite pictures for last. We bought a pass so we could have a digital copy of all the pictures that were taken on the rides and we are so glad we did. Just look at Abe's faces! He looks petrified but the best part is after each ride he asked to go again!





Happy Birthday to our sweet boy! You can stop growing up at any time! We are so very proud of you and we think you are a pretty amazing kiddo! We couldn't be more blessed than to be your parents.