Christopher's Birthday

I've tried to post this post so many times, but I HATE the blogger interface!  You can't move the pictures around so it makes it hard to tell the story of the day.  So I'll just tell the story of the day and you can try and guess what picture goes with what part.

Christopher's birthday this year landed on a Saturday!  He had tons of work to do so we decided to take the kids on a morning adventure (much to their teenager dislike of getting up early aka: 8:30 am) to Wardour Castle.  But first we had yummy breakfast omelets and crepes...of course. 

Wardour Castle is a ruins, but it was amazing!  The kids had a blast playing hide and seek in the castle walls, rooms, and grotto.  Then they found sticks and decided they had to sword fight on the castle grounds....since it is a castle that was destroyed in a war.  

Remember the Robin Hood movie with Kevin Costner...when he comes home and finds his dad hanging in a bird cage?  It was filmed at this castle!  Pretty cool huh?  

Since this castle was destroyed, and the family member who was going rebuild it died before fixing it back up, the other family member decided just to start fresh with a new build just beyond the lake.

After the castle Chris had to do some work while I rested up for our big evening.  Chris and I went out to dinner at Cactus Jacks then showed our religious side by attending our stake conference adult session.  When we got home the kids had decorated the family rooms with balloons filled with things we love about Christopher - and met us at the door singing happy birthday with helium filled voices.  

To make things even more safe, Christopher decided the helium in the balloons couldn't go to waste so inhaled each balloon sized amount of helium and then read the card.  Thankfully he started getting a headache so that stopped.  We took a break and had some yummy cake (that he had sampled earlier in the day so it was half gone) and called it a day after 10pm.  It took us a week to get through all those balloons!

He really does make everything more fun :)

Notice anything weird about Andrew?  It's hard to see in the picture but his pants are on BACKWARDS!  Who does that?!

This is a picture of me saving Christopher's life.  As I walk into this room he is gauging how we was going to jump up onto that set up stairs and explore the top half of that blown up room.  Sounds safe...right?

Where ever we go this sweet boy picks me flowers and brings them to me.  I adore him!

These guys might have had a bit too much helium.....opps