Syd's birthday and Easter!

We had a really fun and full Easter weekend! Thursday night would have been the start because Syd was going to go on a date with Uncle Rod, her best pal! They share a birthday so he always takes her out on a date. He picked her up but about 10 minutes later they were back because she had thrown up in the car on the way there, whoops! She was fine after that so it was weird. He said he'll take her again though so it will be okay.

Then on Friday we had Sydney's birthday party. That day was a little nuts and busy but the party ended up being lots of fun. The kids painted these little dinosaurs we had got, then we had a dinosaur egg hunt in the back garden. We played pin the tail on the dinosaur, opened presents and had cake and ice cream. All Syd's friends were so good and cute, I think we had about 12, 5-6 year olds, three 7 year olds, a whinny 3 year old and a fussy little Mommies girl. Syd had a great time though so that was all that mattered. After that we went to pick up Steve from work and then we went out to eat. We always let the kids pick a place to eat for their birthday so Syd picked Chuckarama's which Daddy was happy about! We invited Steve's Mom, Steph, Trish and her kids to come too so it was lots of fun and we all ate way too much, well I did!!!

Saturday was another busy day but it was also lots of fun. Syd woke up early but went back to bed until about 10am so we were able to wrap all her presents up. Once we were all ready she opened her presents that we had got her and also the present from my parents. She loved everything but mostly she loved the walking dog from my parents, she'd been wanting that for a while. After we got done with that we headed over to Steve's parents house to paint eggs which the kids always love to do. After that we went to McDonald's for lunch before heading to the Easter egg hunt over at the fire station. It's so nice to be able to go to the fire station because it's not that crowded and they have the Easter bunny there so the kids can all have pictures with him. The kids found this cool rope swing there this year so they were all playing on that. Thankfully the weather was nice this year because last year there was still snow everywhere and it was freezing. That night Steve took Syd out on her birthday date, she's been talking about that for months. At first she wanted to dress all fancy and had even asked Trudy is she could make her and Steve some fancy clothes, she said "Trudy will do it, she's nice." In the end they didn't get dressed up, they just went to Mongolian grill which is Steve's favourite place so he was happy about that. They also went to the dollar store so they had a great time. I took the other kids on a date too while Steve took Syd so we all had a great night together. We went to Fazoli's, Maddie loves it there, she gets the all you can eat pasta because she loves their fettuccine.

Sunday was another full day, the kids all woke up and were excited to find their eater baskets then it was off to church for 9am. During church I had this HUGE coughing fit, it was crazy but also funny. Of course it would happen on a day I decided to wear a little make up which I never do. Anyway because I was coughing so much I started to cry so I had mascara running down my face, lovely! Trudy gave the girls these really cute dresses for Easter that she made for them, she's so good to us. I'll have to take a picture of them wearing them next week. After church we put up the trampoline which Maddie has been dying to do. I played outside with the kids for a while. Maddie and Spencer were showing me all their tricks on the tramp and I tried to do some too but I'm getting too old and too chicken, it was still fun though. Syd came on with us for a bit but she had more fun playing with the big box the tramp came in, she's such a nerd! We went over to Steve's parents for dinner. Steve's Mom and sister had put together a little Easter egg hunt there too so the kids got to look for more eggs. They all got a kite each too which the kids thought were amazing. It was the perfect weather to fly kites too, the kids had a blast. We had cake and ice cream for Syd with all the family. She blew the candles out before we all got done singing to her though, little nutter!

All in all it was a great weekend and we took lots of pictures so I decided to put them on a slide show instead. My kids are getting so big too fast! While I was playing outside with them yesterday we had so much fun together. I want to have more times like that, where we just have fun together. This weekend really was great, we had so much fun together, it was just so nice to be able to do so many wonderful things as a family. I really love my little family, they're the best.