Adventures in Gunder-Land: Birthday party fun...

The summer birthday party train chugs on and we have 3 more parties to document...

Sisters, Lilly and Paige were both born in May so their mommy held a super fun joint party at the pool. The kids had a great time making sand necklaces, eating pizza, and squirting each other with water squirters...

Mot and Daddy fueled up for party #2...

Birthday number 2 was at theottle gym and it was a blast!! Choo Choo Landon turned 2 and we had lots of fun watching the kids run amuck...Leif and I were dreaming of early bedtimes until we saw the Oreo ball that Shandi made...the rest of the day we pretended that the 8 (or so) Oreo balls were completely part of a balanced diet...

Next up was a big boy party hehe...Micah, or as Aiden would say, Mr. Micah turned another year older so why not feed all of the neighborhood kids ice cream and give us parents a reason to have a beverage on a "school" night...as usual, Tara had it all set up way in advance and everything was perfectly planned...

The following week we celebrated our best bud Jackson's birthday...Aiden and Jackson are best buds so we wanted to do a little something extra for him...Jackson was turning 5 and that is a big deal...according to Aiden, your life really begins when you are 5 so we wanted to commemorate The beginning of Jackson's "adult" life with a little surprise at school...

We often talk about raising our kids with a kind giving heart...how do you possibly teach a 4 year old that giving is just as fun as receiving...this may need its own blog but in short, I believe that kids learn this over time and in the words of my wise friend Tara, they learn by watching us parents "Model" having a giving heart...after surprising Jackson, and seeing the joy on both kids faces I knew that we had made a step in the right direction..