A year wiser

We had a quiet birthday celebration for Tim at home--thanks for all the birthday phone calls and email! I hope I get that much attention on my birthday in a couple weeks (hint hint)!

Happy bday Claire!

Claire is so happy to finally be 4! She got a new bed for her birthday, along with a bunch of new toys. She had a fun treasure hunt to find her little pet shop present, and then for her party we had a treasure hunt to find the pinata. Here's the link for all her bday pics:

Claire's 4th bday

Claire's bday's coming!

Thanks for teaching us this song in Chinese, Mindy! Claire's so excited for her upcoming bday.

Happy birthday/father's day

June 15th: We celebrated Scott's 2nd birthday, along with Father's Day. We had a celebration at home with our friends the Swansons. Scott (and Tyler and Claire) loved the new ball popper.

Tyler's bday campout

Last weekend was the long-awaited camping trip! Please don't look closely at the rocket cake--it really did look a lot better before transport. Tyler loved his new lantern. Didn't like the bugs so much. All the kids seemed deathly afraid of all the bugs. We had a late dinner, so we had to use our lantern to see, and all the huge beetles were flying onto the table trying to get into our food. And there were daddy longlegs crawling all over the bathroom walls! I guess the kids need more exposure to the "great outdoors."

The next day was fun, though. We made a big breakfast, walked around the lake, rented a john boat for an hour, played tug-of-war, hit the fire truck pinata (I think Tim had the most fun with that), and roasted hot dogs for lunch. Tim was a good sport with everything, he was feeling sick the whole time with a cold.

This weekend Tim is taking Tyler and Scott on the father-son campout, so I'm looking forward to having a fun girls night out with Claire. Claire loves to say, "girls stick together," and "Girl Team!" I think we'll rent a chick flick and eat ice cream, maybe do some shopping...