Chuck E. Cheese, Family Gatherings, and Dallas's Birthday, OH MY!!!

We'll start off first with the Chuck E. Cheese experience! Wow. It was quite the night! We were able to sit in the section closest to the mouse himself, and Kaleb and Kendyl LOVED it. They danced, they sang, they had a BLAST watching the dancing mouse. The boys were more interested in the technical stuff that was there for them to mess around with. There was a camera that they could move, and it would show up on the big TV's around the room. Needless to say there were lots of posteriors zoomed in on, and giggled at. Boys. (insert rolling eyes here!) The three bigger boys, and the two daddy's went and played a few games while we were waiting for our food, and all it did was give three little boys the MEGA itch to go play! The food came, and we got Dallas his salad bar. (the kid has decided to not like pizza, and thankfully he LOVES salad!) then we headed off for games, we have about 250 tokens to use between the 6 kids, and the two bigger boys. They all got to play, and mess around for about 2 hours. They had a BLAST!!! They all got to pick out a small prize or two at the end, and we all headed for home, tired, sore, and ready for some QUIET! I always forget how noisy it is in those places! YIKES!!!

Saturday we got up, and Todd got ready to get out the door. He decided to opt out of the family get together for my side, and instead go do a plumbing side job he'd been offered, since they were offering him 20 dollars an hour for his time. We can't pass up the extra money right now, so he had to go do it. So I got to pack everything up to take down to his work my self, and I had to get my kids ready, and also had to get the chicken Alfredo lasagna roll ups made. Would you know that that would be the day my phone would ring fifty million times, and people wouldn't quit coming to my door? I was more than a little frazzled by the time we left, and was SO thankful that it was for my side, not Todd's. My side all kinda chips in, and helps with the kids. My uncles are AWESOME with all the kids, and they keep them pretty busy, and entertained the entire time! It was nice. I got a couple hours of a break! Todd did wind up catching up with us, shortly after everyone left. He more just came down, had a sandwich, and we locked everything back up, since we'd be returning the next day for Dallas's birthday party. OH, if I didn't mention, the parties were at the clubhouse at his work. Its WAY bigger than our house, and with May weather, we just can't risk doing it here, since our house is SO small!!!

Sunday we had to go to church in the morning. I was working in the nursery, and Todd was playing guitar and singing. We brought along some fruit roll ups for Dallas's Sunday school class to have. There was a little boy who had a dairy allergy, so cookies, or cupcakes were out, so we opted for fruit roll ups!! Then, we rushed home from church to change, and grab the last bits for the party before heading to Todd's work again. The party was at 1:30. It went really well. The only thing that got me on the entire weekend was the fact that each and every one of my kids was super super whiny the entire time. Seriously, look at them wrong, and they'd erupt into tears.

Dallas got some pretty awesome gifts for his birthday. He got a DS from my parents, he got the new Mario cart for the Wii from my mother in law, and grandmother in law. Three extra steering wheels for that from my brother in law, and sister in law, he got a left handed baseball glove, and a couple of balls from My brother, and sister in law. (he writes right handed, but does everything else left!) He got an under water surf board from my grand parents (foam that you try to stand on and balance in the water!) and from Todd and I he got all the stuff I'd listed in the previous post about my retail therapy!!!!

Here are a few picture from yesterday!!!

This is the big birthday boy yesterday morning! Had to take a picture first thing! I can hardly believe he's 7!!!

Here are all four of the kiddos yesterday afternoon!!!

Gabe saying YESSSSSSSS! Because it was an under water shark book!!

Kaleb playing peek- a -boo!!!!!

Kendyl and Dallas. Dallas was INSISTENT on being in her picture too!

My four kids, and my nephew Kyle at the cake singing happy birthday!!!

A quick self portrait of Todd and I!