Rob's Birthday

Rob's 37th Birthday was March 13th and for it I surprised him and the kids with tickets to see PUSH - Physical Theater. It was amazing! I have added a link here to my youtube page so you can see one of their pieces done to the actual air traffic control tape of the flight that landed in the Hudson last year. They chose it because of how calm all of the people involved are. Pilots are actually trained to practice being calm and PUSH shared that we, as Christians, should practice being calm when faced with hard situations too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp-dG1Jpe20

Malachi got to meet all 5 members of the team and was very happy with himself.

They have a kids camp in the summer that teaches children how to perform this form of art. It's called PUSH PINS and Malachi is very inetersted in going. We are looking very seriously into it for him.

As for gifts the kids and I decided to all paint him a picture. Elise and I were happy with ours but Mal started his over prob 4x on the same canvas so in the end it was not a good example of his artistic ability but still, a gift made with love.

6 & 29

Malachi turned 6 in January and two days later I turned 29. He had a great Transformers party that my husband planned and executed perfectly.

Check out this short clip:

His poor little buddy Wyatt had a belly ache by the end of the festivities.

This is one of Wyatt's little sisters and she's so darn cute I had to post her picture :) Look at those eyes!

For my birthday all I really wanted was a quiet day. First Mal made me breakfast:

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Yes, I did eat one bite of it in front of him.

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It was a Sunday so after church Rob got some take out from Jack's Resturant, I opened my one present (that I had been wanting for a while), and took a nap. At youth group that night some of the kids surprised me with a cake they made themselves and a card that was so sweet and expressed their appreciation for all I do for them. After youth group I went out to the movies by myself. Good stuff.

This is the present I had wanted. It's a special rubber board and pizza-cutter-like tool for cutting fabric. It's soooooo much quicker than hand tracing and cutting. I love it!