10 years

It was our 10th wedding anniversary on the 29th of December. I can't believe 10 years have come and gone. We spend the day remembering how we came together, the ups and down and of course the times when the boys were born and every year since then. We remember the years with the boys as our reference point to particular events and fun times.

Ellen our dear friend , gifted us an evening of babysitting the 3 boys , so we could go out for dinner. We chose a nice restaurant called De Beleving in St. Oedenrode .

Here is to another 10 and more!

Bobby decided to take the pictures of me and food!

Elijah turns 6

Catching up after a few months, I thought I would update you all on the birthdays and news after the Christmas holidays.

We started this years birthdays with Elijah turning 6 in February. Since his birthday was during the Carnival holiday, we had the kids party the Wednesday before school closed. In India or back home in Kuwait we were allowed to wear a new dress and specifically not the school uniform but a party wear for our birthday in school. Everyone knew that must be the birthday person. Well, since the boys school were in carnival mode, things were crazy. Wednesday was crazy hair day. Thursday was pyjama day and Friday the kids wore their much awaited costume. So, Elijah celebrated his class birthday with the singing and "traktactie"(Dutch for goodie bag for food or small fun playthings to be handed to the kids, some examples of what people usually do are in the pictures below). The day we got to do it was on the Thursday.

So, Elijah got all dressed up for his birthday celebration in school ...... in his pyjama!
After a bit of a confusion with the teacher on the timing of the celebration, I made it to celebrate a part of it and hand out the goodies. I did get emotional when the teacher said they already celebrated in the morning. She didn't even think to call me find out. This would be the last year that I can come into the classroom and celebrate with him.

The day before on Wednesday we celebrated his birthday with his friends.
Elijah requested a Lego themed birthday this year.  I scavenged around Pinterest and had to choose from the thousands of pins that were so attractive.So here we go, these are pictures from his school birthday party.

The Lego cake

Elijah and his friends

The Lego theme table. With the lego decorations and lego blocks in a vase. M&M sweeties.

I drew a Lego man on the T shirt with fabric pens and the kids colored in it.

Lego brownie brick: The kids could ice the cake block with an icing color of their choice and they would stick the M&M on it.

The birthday boy ready to blow the cake

Lego T Shirts on display

Presents opening time

Singing songs

Giving the goody bags

The traktatie: Cup with popcorn and home made lego gummies. click on Lego gummies to watch the youtube video on how I made these.

Elijah puts them under their chairs and when they open their eyes, magically they find goody bags under their chair.

Birthday boy on his throne

We are so proud of this strong willed, organized, cute little 6 year old! May God bless you abundantly and may you grow up to be a mighty warrior for Him!