Birthday Week

 

This has been a super busy week for us (in a good way).  We had 2 birthdays, Thomas started 1st grade, visits from Grandma Toone and our nephew Clint, sports club (more on that later), cub scouts, and a few miscellaneous meetings scattered throughout the week.

The picture above is with our lovely Grandma Dallas.  She will be 75 years old tomorrow!!!! Happy birthday, we love you! Thank you for visiting us last weekend, we love to be with you.

Thomas is really liking school this year other than he has had to sit all by himself at lunch everyday this last week because of his severe peanut allergy.  I've talked to the staff at the school each day trying to resolve this problem, but still Thomas's friends are told that they cannot sit with him, even when they have school lunch (which is peanut free!). So I've emailed the principal and hopefully this week will be a better one. Thomas is getting pretty upset over this.

We celebrated Thomas and Natalie's birthday on each of their birthdays, plus we had Thomas and Natalie's first friend party (10 kids + our 4) yesterday.  At the end of the party the kids were on cloud 9, but Jared and I were exhausted.  We had the kids play "hot potato dress up", run through an obstacle course, and go fishing for prizes.  For cake we served a special rice crispy treat cake (actually quite good) since one of our guests is severely allergic to wheat, milk, eggs, and nuts.

 

As mentioned earlier, we had our Sports Club this week.  I started the sports club 2 weeks ago.  It's a free club for kids pre-k through 3rd grade.  We meet once per week at the park to play sports with different parents coaching the sport of their choice.  We have had about 12 to15 kids show up each week.  Jared and I coached kickball the first 2 weeks and the following weeks we have flag football, soccer, and tee-ball scheduled. It's been a great way to get to know others in the community.