Birthdays and Skiiing

The beginning of March was my birthday.  I have to say that Mom birthdays are not quite as celebrated as my birthdays when I was working at school.  Because I was the principal EVERYONE said Happy Birthday.  It just made you feel better about getting another year
 older.  :)

As a mom there are still the mom things to do (like at school there were still school things to do), but there aren't many people around celebrating the day with you.  :)  In addition Jacob's preschool class had a field trip that day to Discovery Gateway.  So I drove on the field trip.



















Jason asked what I wanted to do for my birthday and I told him that since it was on a Thursday we should wait until Friday to go out to dinner and I wanted to go to PF Chang's.

On Friday Jacob and I took Trax downtown to see Disney on Ice.  We had won tickets from the library because of a reading program we had done.  I wasn't sure how Jacob would like it since this year it was more of the "princess" stories.  They did the Frog Prince, Cinderella and Rapunzel.  Because Rapunzel was done like the latest movie and there was "flying" above the ice involved, Jacob liked that one best.

Before the show started Jacob saw the vendors walking around with cotton candy, drinks, etc,

These items cost an arm and a leg!  One shaved ice drink cost $12 bucks!

Luckily Jacob was pacified with the bag of fruit snacks I had thought to bring along with us.

After the show, Jason picked us up and we went to dinner.  I got the lettuce wraps--which I love!  The next day I opened my presents....so my birthday was spread out over a few days.

Mom and Jacob with mom's b-day cupcake.

The following week we took Jacob up to Brighton to take a ski lesson.  He has been talking about skiing this winter and we wanted him to try it.

 A lesson was probably the best since I don't think he'd follow instructions from us....or I should say Jason, since I don't really ski.

It was fun to watch him start out and try.

Getting ready to snow plow

Riding up the chair lift.  He has the red skiis

 The lesson was 2 hours, but he came in about a 1/2 hour early--said he was tired.   I think he'd try it again, but we'll probably wait until next year.























At the end of the month it was Jacob's 5th birthday.  Can't believe he is 5!!!  We did a birthday party here at our house.  In Jacob's primary class there are 11 boys.  Plus 2 boys from preschool and 2 boys who live across the street.  All of whom we invited.  In a way it was lucky we had spring break coming the next week and 4 of the boys couldn't come.  I have nothing against any of those boys, but it made having the party a little bit easier with 11 rather than 15 boys!  :)

Everyone trying to wash hands

We had pizza.....




played a game where they put a balloon between their legs and did a relay race,

.

opened presents and had cake and ice cream.  My cake skills leave much to be desired! 

It snowed that morning so we couldn't do any of the games outside, but the boys had fun.









Later in the afternoon he opened presents from us.

Ear muffs for when working with loud tools to protect your ears

An electronics kit

Putting the sun powered circut board together

Playing the next day with his sun powered circut board

Last week was spring break and we had great weather!  Kids could play outside....Jacob had a great time! On Friday we went over to a friend's house and colored eggs.

Saturday we went to an Easter egg hunt with some friends

Looking for his basket and eggs

Hunting for eggs in the yard

and yesterday my parents came for Easter dinner.

I was shopping on Saturday for dinner and found strawberries for .99 a carton.  That is a great deal, but I groaned inside because it meant that in addition to trying to prepare Sunday dinner I would be doing jam.  I worked on jam and got things ready for dinner from 3-9:30 p.m.  I was exhausted!  But the jam is good and we had a great time on Sunday!

On to April!!