Party time!!

The month of May is a busy one, lots of things going on for us anyway.  Chris and I both have birthdays (mine is tomorrow and his is the 12th), and since he will be leaving Sunday for Field Training Officer school for a week, and tomorrow our whole family will be going to an all day Jamboral for the Cub Scouts, we decided to celebrate today with the kids.  We started out with some bowling, which the kids loved, of course.  Then we had a late lunch at Pizza Hut, followed by Icees from the gas station and stop at the park to swing and play on the playground.  When we came home I made a chocolate cake, and we decided to just add up both of our ages and put that many candles on the cake ~ 68 ~ which the kids thought was hilarious!  I made the comment that we would be putting half the candles on for Chris and half on for me, and Chris was quick to point out that, well, actually MORE than half were for me!  It's so fun; I'm frequently reminded that I'm the oldest one in our family. ;)  The kids also gave me the gifts they had made for me at school (actually for Mother's Day, but doubling as birthday presents.)  I love my kids, they're the sweetest.  We will miss Chris while he is gone, and we even had to cancel a camping trip we had planned for the end of the month because of an additional two days of training he just found out he needs to attend.  We are proud of him, though, for all his hard work.  He loves his job and he is good at it and that makes us all happy!