What a Weekend!!

This is the picture of the boys surprising David with the pretzel "light sabres" that we made...
Excuse the blurriness, but it was a light sabre battle!
Josiah is my kid that LOVES to match...and so these are the boys wearing their "matching" blue hats - I just got Josiah's on Saturday...he is so excited about having a blue hat like Daddy!
The eclair cake - VERY yummy. Josiah didn't understand why his cake didn't have anything on it - so he insisted on putting the light sabres on it...Of course birthday cakes have to have decoration on it! (He also asked if we were having goody bags for Daddy!)
The eclair cake was a BIG hit with Jacob - he gobbled it up!
Callie LOVED walking around at the beach. And she even kept her hat on for the most part - she didn't try taking it off until the last 15 minutes...and she was really throwing a fit because it was time for a nap!

Quick clarification - we still have 1 remaining fish. Josiah's died last week, but Jacob's is still doing okay. I titled my post "another one bites the dust", because ours was one of the last of the group from Alexander's party to have survived....

Okay, so it was a great weekend!!! Friday was a gorgeous day here, so the kids and I headed down to the beach in the afternoon for a few hours of relaxing heaven! It was Callie's first trip now that she's a "walker", so she LOVED it!! It was so warm that the cold water even felt good! We had a GREAT time! That night, David and I were able to go out and celebrate his birthday. We had a babysitter come over (always an exciting thing for the kids), and we were able to leave for the FIRST time in a YEAR without having to nurse a baby first, or be back in time for a feeding, or whatever. It was almost strange!!! We headed over to Cheesecake Factory for dinner and had intended to use a gift card that David got from a student for Christmas. However, after waiting 35 minutes for our food, the manager came over and told us that our server had forgotten to put our order in! She said our entire check would be on the house if we were okay with that. Of COURSE we were okay!!! So we had a FABULOUS meal - yes, we both ordered cheesecake for dessert - and STILL have our gift card to use another day! We walked over and saw a movie after dinner and just enjoyed being together and holding hands - not holding babies or little boys or diaper bags or light sabres for a change!!!

On Saturday, I did some SHOPPING!!! I literally had NO shorts and 2 t-shirts that fit for the spring/summer, so off I went!! Part of my other main agenda was finding a bathing suit. It was much less traumatic than last year - last year I had JUST had a baby and was very annoyed that bathing suits were not very nursing mom friendly!! Plus I had an extra 45 pounds carrying around. I bit the bullet and bought a REAL suit this year (thanks for the recommendation Courtney!!!!!) and it was MUCH more fun! After all, we practically live at the beach and pool during the summer, so I needed one that would last! anyways, I had fun buying some new clothes for myself - something that RARELY happens, so it was a treat!

Today is David's birthday!!! We had a wonderful morning at church, and then have enjoyed the rest of the day as a family. The boys were SO excited about it. They decided that since Daddy of COURSE loves Star Wars, he of course would want a Star Wars birthday! So we made light sabres our of pretzel rods dipped in white chocolate and sprinkles to eat (BIG hit!). We also did chocolate eclair cake - we decided we had had enough birthday cake from the beginning of the month from Callie's party and all our friends' with their april birthdays. It was delicious! We have had a very fun day celebrating David!!!