Birthday Weekend

It's so great for Mitch's sister's family to be back in the country! They lived in New Zealand for a few years, and it was hard for anyone to visit them. I had seen them on two different occasions before we got married, and had spent a little time with them, but I know that everyone was ready for them to move closer to the family again. (Mark is from New Zealand, and they bought a house up the hill from his parents when they lived there.)

They moved to Austin in December, and we went down for Hannah's birthday last weekend. She had a Hannah Montana birthday party at the gym that she goes to.

They went to a special bakery to get the guitar shaped cake. The icing was very thick. Cole only ate half a piece because he was sick, so I got the other half of his small piece. Upon further examination, I realized that there was about a quarter inch piece of cake covered in three quarters of an inch of icing. It was crazy!

On Sunday, Mark said he was going to the gardening store. A little while later, as Mya and Cole were gearing up to bake special sugar cookies, he came running into the house to get the kids outside. There was a HUGE tractor coming down the street with a mound of dirt in it. I didn't get a picture of that, but it looked a lot like Cole's tractor, but red and bigger.

Mark went and got Cole's tractor out of the garage, and Cole drove the dirt, one scoop full at a time over to the garden area. Everyone else grabbed buckets because Mark hadn't thought to buy a wheel barrel.