Happy (almost) Birthday to Me!

Tonight we went over to Nat's parents house to celebrate my upcoming 34th birthday, yes 34, woo-hoo! Of course we always eat well there and tonight was no exception, Mary made meatloaf, mashed potatoes, glazed carrots, corn, and a few other things that I can't remember right now because I'm getting hungry again. (Seriously, meatloaf could be my all time favorite meal, I LOVE IT!)

My yummy cake.

Me and my birthday candle blower outer and present opener.

Katie and I blowing out the candles.

Katie and Grandma dancing to the song from Madagascar 2, "I like em' big, I like em' chunky", hilarious.

Getting her groove on makes her want to take her shirt off, we can't explain this but blame it on Aunt Izzie's genes!

Katie and her Aunt Christy, I have no idea why she wasn't looking at the camera in any of these pictures?? Thanks again everybody!

Atomic Bounce

Here is just a quick little 10 second video of Katie going down the slide at Atomic Bounce, having fun!

Our Weekend.

We had a busy, busy weekend. Here are a few pictures from our adventures!

The first three pictures are of Katie in a Hawaiian dress that my Grandma and Grandpa Sylvanus brought back from Hawaii for Sarah when she was about 4. Katie spent the night with her Grammy and Pop Sylvanus last night while Nat and I hosted a wine club party at our house and she and Aunt Sarah found this outfit too good to pass up!

Our other fun adventure from Saturday was bowling with some of Katie's buddies from preschool at Suburban Bowlerama. Katie's school had gotten together and rented out half of the place and Katie, Mya and Cooper had a BLAST!! By the way, that little dude Cooper is the funniest little kid, this picture perfectly captures how he is....awesome!

Nat trying to show Katie how to bowl, she would just run up to the line and spike the ball down, hard, on the lane. It was funny, but the ball would take forever to get down the lane....forever.

Cooper celebrating knocking down some pins.

Mya giving her Dad a high-five, good job Matt!

My little linebacker running up to me after a nice roll.

Mya and Katie, best buddies.

So after an hour of bowling they turned the lights down and started playing some sweet dance music, the girls immediately grabbed each others hands and started rocking out. It was so cute!

Back to the Aquarium

Yesterday, Friday, Katie and I decided it was time to once again visit our friends in the "giant fishtank"...her words. We had another great trip and as you can see above this time Katie walked away with a "prize", a giant stuffed jellyfish!

The dolphin show, again and still Katie's favorite thing at the aquarium!

Katie showing me how big the turtle (you can see him in the tank behind her) is.....he's "this big"!

In the rainforest exhibit we saw a sloth sleeping in the tree, I think in all of my years coming to the aquarium this was my first encounter with the sloth, pretty cool.

This fish is called a longhorned cowfish, he's pretty weird looking; the guide at the aquarium said that he likes getting his picture taken and sure enough when he spotted my camera he swam right over to us. Katie thought that was hilarious!

Dory.

Nemo.

My favorite shark!

Happy Valentine's Day!

It's been an action packed Valentine's Day here at the Burt house! As you can see by the picture above it started off with a little laziness, but we got moving soon after this picture and made it up to the Country Club for brunch; something we have often talked about but never gotten motivated enough to do. It was delicious, of course, and the activity for the kids today was making a Valentine's Day card so we got a nice little surprise too.

Last week Nat pulled my old computer out of storage (aka the basement) and we decided that it is time to start getting Katie acquainted with technology. I was amazed at how fast she figured out how to use the mouse, Nat taught her in about 30 minutes and now she sits up on the computer for good 30 minute spurts playing on her favorite website, and ours, www.starfall.com.

Using the mouse to learn some words.

After dinner we decided to head over to Red Lion to try out this new place called Atomic Bounce. Two mom's went into business about a year ago by buying a few inflatable bounce houses and now they have such a following that twice a month they rent out the Red Lion fire hall, charge $5 and the kids bounce their little hearts out! Here are some pictures from our fun evening.

Maddux deciding to come down the slide backwards and on his stomach.

Chase deciding that looked good enough for him!

Katie doing her own thing.

Crazy?!

I just liked her hair in this picture.

Happy Chase.

Weee............

Riding an inflatable dinosaur.

A BIG cheese.

One of Katie's favorites, they also had a toddler toy area, she called it "the ride" and asked when we got home when she could go on the ride again!

Do you think she liked the slide?

Her last trip down she had to try it on her stomach..........looks like it was fun!

All bounced out............HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

Snow (pt.2)~extended

Well snow #2 is over, another 20 inches of the white stuff!! AHHH!!! Here is the view of the house from the street, can you believe it?

Our poor mailbox, swallowed up by the snow.

The neighborhood all covered in snow.

There is too much snow for the kids to sled on the grass, luckily we have a decent slope to our driveway so Sheri could just give them a little push and they were happy.

Wave to the camera!

Oops, they hit a snow bank.

A cold attempt at smiling.

Who loves the snow?