Birthday Boy

Cash is 5.  I'm in denial.  In just 3 1/2 short months he'll be going off to Kindergarten.  I get sweaty palms just thinking about it.  We had a fun birthday party for him though and he was so excited that so many of his school friends came!  Literally half of his class came, a great turn out.  But did you know that some parents figure that 5 years old is an appropriate age to drop off their kids and LEAVE?!  Yeah, I didn't know either.  There were brief moments of chaos but all the kids took turns operating the tractor we had here for the day and all kids went home tired and happy.  Here are some pictures of our construction theme party.

Once again, I had great intentions for the cake but ran out of time.  I never got around to putting on the windows or the front blade of the bulldozer.

Both of Cash's preschool teachers came to the party.  It was so sweet.  Judy and Lexie

 Jessica on the tractor with Josh supervising

 Cash's best friend Roman.  They always greet each other with a bear hug.  It's adorable.

 Henry

 Blake

 Taylor, Cash, and Roman.  I didn't get pictures of all the kids that came but I was impressed that I got about half of them. :)

 Nana!

 Mandy and Addison

 

 We had a great time and I got to know a lot of the other moms better.  We plan on having some play dates together over the summer.  I know Cash will miss all his little friends.  We only have 1 week of school left, it's hard to believe.

 Millie loved Cash's balloons!

Weekend in Washington

Mother's Day weekend we trekked up to Washington for a couple days at the Great Wolf Lodge and for my cousin Jennifer's wedding.  The Great Wolf Lodge is an all indoor water park with 4 big slides that you go down on inner tubes plus 2 slightly smaller slides people go down without tubes.  They also have pools and a kiddie play area with smaller slides and numerous fountains.  Cash's favorite part was the wave pool and we spent the majority of the time playing there.

 Mommy and Daddy took turns going down the tube slides with Cash.

A jet ski that had a water gun attached?  Awesome!

After the long days of playing in the water we got the kids in their pjs and we went to a story time they have at the lodge.

We also made a stop at the arcade they have inside the lodge.  Daddy won a ball for Cash out of one of those claw machines on his first try.

Cash and I played a motorcycle game after which I decided I'm not fit to EVER drive a real motorcycle.  I mowed down countless pedestrians.

We attended my cousin Jennifer's wedding over the weekend too.  She was a beautiful bride and it was so nice to see some of the fam.

Pause button please!

The kiddos are growing up at lightening speed.  Millie turned 1 1/2 on April 25th and Cash is about to turn 5 years old.  Wahhhhh!  That's me crying like a baby.  It's just going too fast.  We just enrolled Cash for Kindergarten at Santiam Christian School for the fall.  Crazy to think he'll be away from me all day, five days a week.  I may have a nervous breakdown.  I may need to be medicated.  I may need to go sit outside his classroom window so I can feel like I'm still part of his life between 8am and 3pm.  Anyhooo...here are some pictures that I took of the kids this week.  We have sunshine, woohoo!