Happy Easter-Birthday!

It has been a busy weekend around here!  Royal's parents arrived Friday afternoon and we've been getting ready for our Easter-Birthday Weekend ever since.

We dyed Easter eggs.

I baked and cooked and decorated for Jayden's 5th birthday!  Once again, he wanted dinosaurs, so dinosaur is what I did.
A few dinosaurs in this corner :

A Happy Birthday banner, with an egg garland, and a few more dinosaurs over here...

A new dinosaur birthday crown - at the birthday boy's request.

I even made some special napkins for the day - Easter on one side and Happy Birthday on the other!

We got up this morning and went to church and then came home to do an Easter egg hunt.

Then played outside with some bubble guns.

Finally, it was time to open presents!

Look!  I'm alive!!!!

 

 Jayden and grandma did some digging for fossils.

I made Jayden a blue dinosaur cake this year.

Happy Birthday to you!  Happy Birthday to you!  Happy Birthday dear Jayden!

Happy Birthday to you!

Happy Birthday, Jayden!!!

Happy Birthday to my big 5 year old!!!!  I'm so lucky to get to be your mom!

Jayden came into my room this morning and said, "I'm 5 today!  And I'm pretty sure that I'm too big for these pajamas now!  I grew a TON last night!"

School Egg Hunt

Today, Jayden had an egg hunt with his class at school.  Willow and I tagged along for fun, and Willow was even allowed to hunt for some eggs with everybody else.

After the egg hunt,  Jayden's class had snacks back in the classroom and Willow got what she's been wanting this whole year....the chance to sit at the tables with the big kids and be part of their class!

Happy Feet :: Victory Dance

Today,  Jayden's blue squad squared off against the yellow team.  I'm pretty sure we lost today's game, but Jayden swears that the score was 14-11 in their favor, but whose counting?  :)

Jayden has really started doing some sweet victory dances when his team scores a goal.
After Max scored a goal :

After Jayden scored a goal :

After Cooper scored his first goal of the season.  I wish I would of been paying more attention and got more of Cooper and their coach in the picture.  Their are all super excited because Cooper kicked the goal from mid-field.  :)

This picture is likely to be Jayden's favorite that I took this time, because his feet aren't touching the ground.  Jayden often runs as fast as he can down the field and kinda looks down and behind himself to see if he's got dust clouds or if his feet are no longer touching the field.

And here's a couple of Willow, just because she does so well on the sidelines with us, when what she really wants to do is run on the field and play with Jayden.

Bathrobe Buddies

Jayden and Willow have taken to wearing their bathrobes around (and outside) the house in the morning.  I think it's the cutest thing ever!

Little Black Butterfly

We found this little guy in our grass today.  I think there might be something wrong with one of his wings because he won't fly off.  But we got him moved to a safer location, so that the kids, or the dog, or the garden hose wouldn't squish him.

Jayden is VERY concerned about him, since he can't fly.  And I wish I carried my video camera around in my pocket because as Jayden stood and watched him, he sang him a song about how much he loved him and would teach him how to fly.  :)

Happy Feet :: Speed Power

Jayden had another soccer game today against the orange team!  We won 10-5, with Jayden scoring a goal, but whose counting, right???  Other than Jayden of course, and another kid Max who's on his team.... :)

Jayden saw the the pictures I posted last week and he said, "Where are my fast pictures?" Your what?  "You know, my speed power pictures, where I'm running really, really fast!"  So, I promised to try and get some pictures that showed just how fast he runs around out there.  What he really wants are pictures of the dust he thinks is flying behind him when he runs, kinda like the poof of dust the road runner makes.  I'm not sure I captured it this week, I'll just have to wait and see what he thinks of them.

Does this look fast?

Or this?

What about this?

Jayden's teammate, Max, is a goal scoring machine, so their coach had Max work on passing to his teammates.  Here is Max passing the ball to Jayden.

And Jayden taking it all the way in!