So this is one of the rare opportunities that I'll take to add something to this wonderful chronicle Kelly keeps of our lives.
Why?
Because I had the best birthday ever!
What could be better than starting your day with breakfast in bed with your kiddos?? Not sure who was more excited - - me or Summer! She sure enjoyed my pineapple and juice, but I did sneak a few bites of breakfast sandwich and was unhindered in my coffee consumption.
Next, Summer and I headed to her last gymnastics class of the year. I'm so proud of how much she has improved over this past year - it's so much fun to "help" - going to miss it when she jumps to the big kid class! Today they received ribbons (see the video for Summer's ribbon presentation!).
Summer getting her feet stamped after gymnastics (they do this at the end of every class for fun for the toddlers)
Summer loved her teacher (Ms. Linda)
Once I got home, Kelly had some adventures in store - she had me take the day off of work, but didn't tell me what we were going to do. As we drove, she had us stop for my free birthday drink at Caribou, as well as Subway sandwiches for our car trip. Why we needed sandwiches was beyond me as there are restaurants everywhere, but it soon became apparent as she gave me the next address to plug into my phone's GPS.
Winstead, MN. Winsted???? What????
Well, Winsted did not disappoint. I figured we were on our way to some park or something - it was a nice day out, we had grabbed food to go - why not enjoy the outdoors?
About 15 minutes outside of Winsted, she told me what I was doing - - I would be jumping out of a plane! My initial reaction? "Shut up!" (seriously). She completely surprised me! So, as my hands clammed up but anticipation built, we pulled into West Side Skydivers.
I'll let the pictures and video speak for themselves...
Full Video!
13.5k feet with ~60 seconds of free-fall going over 100 mph - WOW! FUN!!!
After the jump, we drove back to Apple Valley in time for my scheduled massage - aaahhhh.....relaxation!
Once sufficiently relaxed, I stopped at Red's Savoy (best pizza in the world) to pick up our dinner. Of course, dinner wouldn't be complete without brownies and chip mint ice cream!
We opened up some presents - again, Summer was probably more excited than I was! :) - and we then headed out for a family walk.
After our walk, we had fun with the kids (Colton would not stop giggling and Summer was a non-stop chatterbox!) before putting them to bed.
All the adrenaline (and pizza) was taking its toll on me and I voted for movie night - my pick. We went retro with Mission: Impossible. Pretty funny to see the "cutting-edge" technology from 1996! Great movie and now having fun recapping the best birthday I can remember! I won't forget this day any time soon! Thank you, Kel, for putting together a wonderful day! Love you! :)
Its been pretty rainy lately, but here is what we have been up to:
-Playdates with awesome friends!
-mall playzone
*For the first time we brought Summer's doll stroller to the mall and she had fun pushing
"Berry" around the mall since it was too rainy to go outside!
-library
*Summer has been checking out books all by herself for months now, but I finally snapped a picture today!
-zoo
*Colton had fun walking all over!
-putting in our vegetable garden
*Dodging rain drops, we put up the fencing and Summer helped us pick out our veggies (two kinds of tomatos, two kinds of peppers, corn, peas, watermelon, strawberries, cantelope, cucumber, and pumpkin) and we got them all planted. Nice to have rainy days for that!
-replacing our old 1960's green toilet and 23 year old microwave (both finally bit the dust!)
*Paul is an amazing handyman and successfully completed both!
-Summer learned her phone number, address, quite a few Spanish words, and she can buckle her own carseat
*We met a new friend (Ms Edita and her daughter Chile) at the mall playplace and they spoke Spanish. I chatted with Ms. Edita for a long time while Chile and Summer played. Afterwards, Summer wondered what we were saying because she couldn't understand the Spanish. Since then, she has been very interested in learning Spanish, so we have checked out books and DVD's from the library as well as watched quite a few youtube clips during breakfast! Some favorites of ours are clip 1, clip 2, and clip 3. Here is a little video of a bit of her Spanish.
*Summer has been noticing numbers on houses, so we decided to start talking about addresses. I also thought it would be good if she learned her phone number, so we sang it to the tune of Mary had a Little Lamb and she learned it after a few weeks of singing it :). Here is a little video:
-Colton has been walking much more, and will now walk even without an end destination in mind!
Reading with Daddy
Giant Cookie with Grandma and Grandpa K (while Mommy and Daddy were at Bible Study)
