What a Week!

Wednesday night was like Christmas. We waited up very late for a visit from our friends, Maroua, Ryan, and Rami. They arrived around 1:15am and we spent the next two hours catching up, even though we were all dead tired.

The next day, the kids' doctor appointment had been cancelled so we had cinnamon rolls for breakfast and drove into Wichita Falls for lunch at Double Dave's pizza. We then drove to Fort Worth and stopped by dad's house before hitting John and Nikki's. Nikki made a fabulous dinner and we all sat around talking until late into the night.

Friday, we went sight seeing. We started off at the Log Cabin Village, which was surprisingly really cool. The kids ran around and got to pump water, pet fake chickens, and try on coon skin caps. I may have been photographed in a bonnet... I left my camera in Holliday so I'm at the mercy of Maroua and Nikki to send me pictures. After all the candle dipping and corn milling, we headed to a sushi place for lunch. So good! It had been a long time since we'd had Japanese food. A front came in so it began to feel freezing outside so rather that check out the Botanic Gardens, we headed over to the Omni Theatre and watched The Grand Canyon Adventure. It was pretty cool. The kids didn't get scared or bored (though they would have probably liked the dinosaur one better!). Afterwards, it was Free Family Friday at the museum so we checked out the museum stuff which was being housed inside the Cowgirl Hall of Fame due to renovation. After that, we made our way to an Asian grocery store and picked up a few things for dinner.

The last event for the evening was cake baking. The plan was to bake the cakes and freeze them overnight. That worked for the two 9" rounds, but the bundt was a problem. Half of it stuck inside the pan. We salvaged what we could, but decided to try the other bundt the next day.

Saturday morning we had orange rolls and baked a cake-- this time it worked! Around noon we headed over to dad's house to frost the cake and get ready for the party. By 4:30, we were full up with Jessica, Kris, Jacob, Ella, Maroua, Ryan, Rami, Michelle, Lisa, Johnny, Grandad, Grandma Linda, Grandma, Mommy-O, Daddy-O, Jonas, Kaemon, and Melody. We ate pizza and fruit flowers; sang happy birthday; ate snake cake and ladybug cake; and opened presents. The kids got tons of clothes and toys and will be very stylishly playing for weeks.