Happy Birthday to Jared and Kamryn

It's pretty sad when it takes almost a week to post about my children's 3rd birthday. (I started this post on Wednesday but it's taken until Sunday to get to it to finish).

Kamryn and Jared have been pretty excited about their birthdays for weeks. Every time we went to Sam's Club (which is every week) they looked at the cakes and wanted to get their birthday cake. I told them that their birthdays were coming up pretty quick and soon we would get their cakes.
One sad note is I forgot to take pictures of their cakes, not that they were anything special. We went to Sam's Club Monday morning and I let them pick out their cakes. Luckily there were two perfect ones there - one with light green frosting and all decorted girly with flowers. The Jared picked out was decorated with a party theme with confetti and red frosting.
After we picked up their cakes they spent the afternoon at Grammy and Grandpa's while I shopped for their presents. They really didn't need anything but I got them presents anyway.


Here's Justin being a good sport at their birthday dinner. I decorated the kitchen so it looked like a party for Jared and Kamryn. I'd made them take naps that day and then had to wake them up for dinner. Luckily they were in good moods after being woken up and were very excited about their party.


We had our usual/traditional Monday night dinner - spaghetti with salad and breadsticks. The birthday kids ate dinner (that part is a little unusual depending on what's for dinner.) Then we headed over to the rec center to go swimming. Jared and Kamryn LOVE to go swimming and ask almost every day to go. So that is what we had to do.


Jared is always a little timid at first when we get in the water. This time he went right in and went down the frog slide. Kamryn loves the water so much so that we never got a good picture of her in the pool because she is always moving. She loved going down the big slide with her dad.
They swam for a long time with all of their cousins and grandparents that came to swim too.

Taylor enjoying the little kids pool.

After swimming, everyone came back to our house for cake, popsicles and present opening. All of that was crazy. Having two kids open presents at the same time surrounded by cousins is a little challenging. It took me a couple of days to figure out who gave them what (thank you to all). It took a week to get those bikes put together that they are opening in this picture.
By the end of the present opening it looked like a bomb had gone off in our living room.
In the future we would like to figure out a what to spread out all the fun. Let them alternate who's year it is to have a birthday (I don't think Jared and Kamryn will go for that). Maybe we can take turns celebrating on the actual day and the day after or something.