Birthday Celebrations

I'm a little tardy in getting this up.  Don't know why it took me so long.  But anyway, here are the pics from the various birthday celebrations.  Tucker's birthday was on a Monday and we decided to invite a few families over for dinner to help celebrate.  I am HORRIBLE at estimating amounts.  I made enough to feed 100 apparently.  So one thing was there was plenty of food to eat.  And lots of crazy boys running around.  I think it was a pretty succesful night.  

 Everyone closed in for the present opening:

 Hex bugs were played with:

 On Tucker's actual birthday he got to take doughboy donuts to his class (yum) and that evening our family went out for dinner at Men Wielding Fire, a yummy BBQ place downtown.  Tucker enjoyed some ribs.  We went home and he got to finally open his presents.  He was just so excited:

 Lucky Anders always benefits when Tucker gets gifts and vica versa.  The twins were excited about this sweet lego book:

On Clara's birthday I got to go help in her classroom and she got sung to and got to hand out those delicious Costco cinnamon rolls.  It was fun to be there.  (See that cute outfit she got for her birthday.  Clara ruined the outfit.  Dry erase marker, paint, grease, and dirt.  Ruined on day 1.  I'm bitter)

 Clara's birthday was a Thursday.  Last year I threw her a ginormous party.  This year her birthday fell on my day to host the playgroup she belongs to, so I combined playgroup with a picnic in the park and we invited a few extra friends to join in.  It was perfect.  No planning, lots of happy kids, much better than the extravaganza that sucked the life out of me last year.

 That night we picked up yummy pizza from our new favorite Z pizza (we had to dissuade her from Panda Express. ick).  After dinner she got to open up her numerous presents:

 Rob and I made a most fabulous birthday cake.  Clara was thrilled that it had layers and I was thrilled that Rob made ganache frosting that was super amazing:

 The boys were thrilled with the legos Clara got (the new girl legos are super cute) and I had to remind them to let her participate in the construction process:

Happy birthday to my March babies!