nine-nine-ten

A beautiful sun rise for the birthday boy!!

We always make the birthday person their favorite breakfast, which

is crepes for most everybody.

Crepes and a few presents, not a bad start to the day!

Breakfast Lex style.

While Lex tried out a new Wii game, Winter was up and ready to

cause some trouble, as usual.

Even though it was a Thursday, the girls had a half day of school,

and so we decided to go try out a little family fun center. Lex was

excited to play mini golf and laser tag.

Originally it opened as Liberty Land, so there is a theme through out.

Lex was a pro, just like he is at every other sport. He did remind me a little of

Happy Gillmore though, he had a hard time just tapping it in. He wanted to

power swing most of the time.

We wanted to make sure we had enough time for everything so we didn't finish

all 18 holes of golf. The climbing wall was next on Lex's agenda...

There was only one other little boy there at the climbing wall, so they were all

able to climb as many times as they wanted. Lex and Paris had fun climbing just

high enough that when they let go it was a fun ride down.

Laser tag was awesome, so I heard, I din't get to go in because

I had to stay out with Wynn. Apparently it was quite huge and

Lex was very proud of himself that he got one of the guys on

the other team.

Then we went back outside and rode the roller coaster a

few times. And then came BACK in and rode some of the

other indoor rides. This was their favorite.

They were anxious to get in the bumper boats even though it was a

little chilly out. Evey was pretty excited she got to drive.

Winter really wished she could ride too.

A water battle under the Statue of Liberty!

Really, REALLY, wished she could play with everyone!

One more ride on their indoor favorites before we headed

off to Lex's soccer game.

And, would you believe we did all of this for Freeeeee.......good

'cause it wasn't. We paid a small fee of 35 dollars each for all of

this fun. But not just for today, for the whole year. Yep unlimited

mini golf, rollercoaster, laser tag, bumper boats, rides, climbing

wall....and that's not all; a season pass to 7 Peaks for next year,

AND an unlimited pass to another fun center with more mini

golf, and batting cages!!! What a deal! So, it felt like the whole

day was free, and that is good for me!!

Lex has LOVED playing soccer this year. He just gets it and

is such a great player, and is always so happy. He cheers for

his team when he is taking a rest (really loud!) and once the

game is over he starts asking me how many sleeps there are

until his next game. He really looks forward to Thursdays!

The long standing family rule is that if you get a goal, everyone

gets ice cream. So, Thursdays we are generally out for ice cream,

and there was no disappointment, on his birthday!!

Since we decided to go to the fun center, I didn't have time to

make him a cake. We were going to grab one from a bakery,

but Lex decided that instead of getting a cake and getting ice

cream, he would combine the two and get an ice cream cake

from Coldstone. He also got to choose dinner, so we had a fun

little party with Grammy, Kurt, more presents, Costco

Pepperoni Pizza (his fave) and a cookie dough ice cream cake.

It's fun to turn 5!!