…or in other words…the boys turned 7!
I’m not going to wax all cliché with statements like ‘I don’t know where the time’s gone’ or ‘I can’t believe my boys are 7’ or ‘It seems like only yesterday they were tiny babies,’ but, I am going to proudly say that Mike and I have survived 7 years raising our wild twin boys and are still alive to tell about it. That my friends, is most certainly something to celebrate!
It’s been touch-and-go at times, but when I look back over the last 7 years, all I can say is that it’s been an adventure like no other. I adore my crazy boys!
J and J enjoyed two (because everything comes in twos around here) celebrations for their birthday. It was one good thing after another…
…starting with some birthday morning gift unwrapping. Thanks grandmas and grandpas!
And then…
…since we had family in town, we headed up to Cache Valley and straight-away recruited a few cousins to be party guests. Because what’s a proper party without some cousins as party guests? (I’m in love with this picture by the way. All their adorable faces lit up in birthday candle glow).
The boys requested pizza for their birthday dinner. No surprise there.
Birthday cake for dessert.
Requested: Picnic cake. (Aunt Laura was especially happy with this choice. She’s always been a big fan).
I get a kick out of this cake every year. Mike requests it for his birthday cake, Mary Kate wants it for hers, and now the boys. It’s become the official Dickey Family birthday cake. It’s certainly not your traditional birthday cake with it’s total lack of globs of brightly colored frosting and layers filled with raspberry goo. Just look at the poor thing. It’s not so pretty. But, despite it’s lack of beauty, it is delicious, in all it chocolate chip and brown sugar glory. Everyone digs it. This one was gobbled up in two seconds flat.
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After returning from Cache Valley we commenced the second of our two celebrations with a trip to Toys-R-Us to pick out bikes. It’s been a few years since we’ve bought bikes for the boys. They’ve completely out grown their bikes from years ago. In fact it’s quite comical to see the boys riding around on the tiny things, their knees practically hitting their eye sockets as they pedal down the road.
New bikes were definitely in order and the boys thought it was totally the bees-knees to go bike shopping and pick their own new bikes…
…awe, now these are just right. Perfect fit for two very tall 7 year olds.
Off to the check out counter…
With bike purchases complete, it was off to Pirate Island, which is basically a pirate themed version of Chucky Cheese, a veritable Los Vegas for children. Incredibly kitschy this place, but the kids were IN LOVE…
…waterfalls, treasure chests, and skeleton pirates, all for your eyes to behold just as soon as you walk in the front door!
For celebration #2 we recruited yet another cousin, Miss Emily. She was totally down with the pirate theme and the Root Beer…
It will shock you to learn that we had pizza again for dinner.
After pizza, a bunch of waiters in terrible pirate costumes came and sang a silly pirate version of ‘happy birthday.’ They sang with really pathetic pirate accents and were totally off key, but…they brought ice cream sundaes with chocolate sauce and whipped cream for the birthday boys. It was 7 year old bliss I’m tellin’ ya.
Then it was off to the pirate arcade. This is were it started to feel a bit like a kid version of Vegas…
…The boys played game after game, Emily continued her obsession with Ski Ball, and Mary Kate hoarded her precious tickets like a miser. She earned over 100 of those things!
The kids had a blast playing everything from Ski Ball to Pac-Man, and then…
…as soon as the kids had cashed in their piles of tickets for some terrible prizes that they were totally thrilled with…just like that…the party was over. Another year come and gone, vanished, just like the Black Pearl in Pirates of the Caribbean.
My boys are now officially 7, and even though I was trying not to be cliché, I can’t help myself, I’m going to say it anyway…
’I don’t know where the time’s gone,’ ‘I can’t believe my boys are seven’ and ‘It seems like only yesterday that they were tiny babies.’
They aren’t tiny babies anymore, but boy do I love, LOVE these two crazy, wonderful boys.
Happy Birthday my pirates! Because of you my life is an adventure. I love you both!
5 comments:
Happy birthday to my favorite Dynamic Duo! I think since there are two, they've really been around for 14 years, plus there's some twin synergy, so maybe more like 20. :)
I hope you'll save some birthday fun for when we come home. I love every kid in those pictures.
Jacob and I had fun looking at all the birthday fun. I had to explain the whole "why their birthdays are on the same day". Thanks for the opportunity to explain about twins. How the times has flown for me. I remember just yesterday when they were born.
Oh those two rugrats. I love them so much and have to say that I get more excited to hear stories about what they've been up to than maybe any other kids. They are the best and I hope they had a fantastic birthday.
Give them kisses from me because if I gave them to them they'd probably freak a little. ;)
Also, the picture with the candle faces is bomb.
Can't wait to go biking with them boys - what a riot we'll have!
But... seriously... I can't believe it's been seven years.
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