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Alice's Birthday

Yes yes, well Alice's birthday was in April, so we aren't too far behind. As for tradition we went to the Tulip Festival for Alice's birthday. It was so fun. The kids loved being outside, I loved the gardens, and Jason, well he loves the food. We had the best pulled pork sandwich there, yum. Also there was clogging going on which the kids loved. Before it started, they just had music playing and lots of little kids danced on the platform. Our kids of course loved that. We keep trying to go back to the gardens, but the weather has been uncooperative.



Alice got a trike for her birthday. We just took it outside last week and she loves when I push her around. This being our second trike, we bought the one with the parent handles.



Alice helped make her cake, by choosing the frosting color. We put M&Ms on it and that was all she wanted to eat. Then she scraped her finger on it to get the frosting off and we just let her have fun. Soon the whole cake looked like it had small trenches in it. Oh well.



My parents came down for conference and we took Dad with us to the Planetarium in Salt Lake. The kids had fun yelling "grandpa come here," the whole time. Then we went to the new Whole Foods, which was awesome. Although, we did have a potty incident there. Let's just say that Daniel can hold a lot of pee. Despite that, we had tons of fun with Grandpa.

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Erin said…
I can't believe how big and grown up she looks. :)
10:08 PM
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