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32nd birthday

Since we were unexpectedly in Utah for my birthday I got to go and have a visit with my sweet Grandma. Jon and Regan were at the hospital with Jon’s Dad having just the boys time. So we got to have some fun shopping and visiting for just the girls time. Woot!
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Part of shopping was getting me a birthday flan. Do you like my super annoyed mom face? Ya. My little buddy was having a melt down because, 1) He didn’t get to make me a cake, and 2) the cake I picked was full of dairy and eggs. Not kid friendly. This was strictly a grown up dessert. We did buy dessert for the kids and Jon (he doesn’t do flan). IMG_0400

And here we have a fake smile, because I had Regan melting down off camera. It was a happy sad day/birthday. Lots of fake smiling.IMG_0401

Kaylee was being hysterical. She was super happy to be singing to me.IMG_0404 IMG_0409He was truly devastated. My birthday flan was a last straw emotionally for him. Too many big feelings happening too close together. He misses our foster kids, Grandpa is in the hospital, he had to miss his first ever school field trip, and one of his favorite school friends birthday party all on the same weekend. So ya, my birthday flan broke him.

Day 365 and V’s turns 5!

To celebrate surviving a whole yer as a foster family AND V birthday we biked the kiddos over to sonic for dessert.

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It’s been the longest and fasted year ever. It’s crazy to think that Monkey girl was only 4 weeks old, R was a scared angry 14 month old, and V was a lost little 4 year old. They have all grown SO SO much.

We are sure going to miss them when they move to their new family.

Jon is 33!

Kaylee had Jon’s night all planned. Birthday dinner at Red Robin followed by FoYo. Sounds fun in theory. In reality we have R. And he is at that age where dinner at a restaurant is torture.

So it was more trying to get him to stay in his high chair and not throw food than actual fun. By the time we finished dinner Jon was DONE and just wanted to be home. FoYo was put on hold.
IMG_7402 IMG_7403Hahahaha! Oh, man. He kills me. Total fake OOH face just for the camera. HA!IMG_7409This shirt says DAD in binary. He could totally read it. I just had to trust the site that it was right. IMG_7412 IMG_7413I cleaned our room (gasp!) and found his missing double sided foam tape. So I thought it would make him laugh if I tossed it in a gift bag. It did. 🙂IMG_7416So the day before his birthday he was all, “So…I could really use a new wallet…” I told him too bad I already bought and wrapped his present. And then I had wife guilt and hunted down a new wallet for him. Which by the way, didn’t realize that they had SO very many options. And I couldn’t call him about preferences because I wanted it to be a surprise. It was and I picked a good one. Phew.

Hoping next year is a bit more fun an not as full of wrangling toddlers in a restaurant. 🙂