A Tale of Two Birthdays

March 22nd is a pretty special day at our house.  These two guys share the same birthday that day. 

It's always fun to celebrate two for one, and this year was no exception.

Ethan really wanted to go to the TRF waterpark this year and since it had been more years than I could count (as in, we had never gone with the younger three) since we went, we decided to do it.

The waterpark was super fun. Amazingly enough, even I could go on the waterslides since I don't have a baby to tend anymore!

The kids had tons of fun, well almost all of them.

Ethan and his friend Evan enjoyed chasing the teenage sisters all over the place, and they had a blast together.

Eli and Olivia hung out with Dad and Mom, playing on the lazy river in tubes, getting warm in the hot tub, and going down the smaller waterslides. They both went down the larger slides, Eli once and Olivia several times.

We had presents the next day, on the real birthday. Ethan got some gifts, and is pretty excited about his new bike.

Steven got a new 'drone' as the kids call it, but the package called it a quadcopter. It will be fun to see an aerial view of our house and neighborhood.

As we had planned to eat cake the next day due to a youth fireside at our home on the birthday, I frosted the cake and covered it with a plastic bowl. The safest place I could think of to keep it was in the oven. The next morning, I came downstairs and began preheating the oven for muffins. After about 10 minutes, the smoke alarm went off, and both the cake and I had a melt down.

That is the remnants of my plastic bowl all over the oven.

Sooooo.... I made an ice cream cake for their birthday instead.

Ethan got his annual birthday restaurant dinner tonight.  As expected, he ordered a 'big, juicy burger' and loved every minute of it! Not sure how he got that in his mouth.