Birthday Extravaganza!!

Wow!  We have packed a ton of fun into the past week!  It just never stops around here!

It started with my last week of school.  Of course we didn't do much but I had my "promotion ceremony" on Wednesday and that was tons of fun.  Mom and I even had to make a special stop at the store the night before so I had something semi decent to wear.  I actually took an interest in what I was going to wear and almost had a meltdown in the store because mom wouldn't buy me the sparkle sandals AND the flower sandals.  I ended up with the sparkle ones and I looked very good.  No one recognized me with my hair down, so it was kind of fun.

I got to hang out with my two best buds- Camryn and Olivia before we started.

Here are both morning kindie classes.  I'm in the back row, fourth from the left.  As you can see, I am tall but no where near the tallest in my class!

Here I am getting my diploma from Mrs. McKellar.  I loved wearing my "genius hat" but sadly, I lost it already.

After graduation, mom and dad both headed to work and I got to hang out at my friend Cam's house all afternoon.  We had pretty much the most amazing time ever and I was exhausted at the end of it.

On Thursday, I spent the day at my friend Sophia's house (thank goodness for friends because mom wouldn't know what to do with me otherwise!) and that about exhausted me as well.  BUT.  Nana D and Mr. Walker arrived in the afternoon and picked me up and we started my awesome birthday weekend!  I talked them into taking me out for ice cream.  Then dad came home and we all went out for pizza and ice cream AGAIN!!  Because it was almost my birthday you know.

Friday was my official day and I woke up to presents and red velvet pancakes for breakfast.  I got an 800 piece Lego dinosaur kit,

A really cool kite

And dinosaur wall stickers!

We spent the next three days putting the Legos together, with Mr. Walker as the page turner for the direction book, dad as quality control and me as the "putter togetherer".  I did the whole thing almost all by myself and have been playing with it ever since.

After opening presents, we all headed down to the Natural History Museum for the afternoon then came home and dove into chocolate cake with chocolate frosting.

Since Nana and Mr. were in town, mom and dad took advantage and abandoned me for a date night.  For Mother's Day dad got mom a cooking class for both of them.  It was very fun and very good food.

They got to make mussels which as you can tell from the look on Dad's face, he just loves!

They made mussels in a tarragon butter broth, pomme frites and steak with Bearnaise sauce made with tarragon.  Unfortunately, not only does dad not really love mussels, he isn't a big fan of tarragon either but he was a trooper and ate it all.  Both of them decided they would never make Bearnaise sauce again though- something about the 2 cups of butter in the sauce kind of turned them off.  It tasted amazing though!

On Saturday, once mom and dad had recovered from their wine and fat the night before, we packed the family up and headed down to the huge REI downtown and to the aquarium for my birthday dinner.  We got great seats right next to the fish tank.

Nana D and Mr. Walker headed back to Albuq. on Sunday morning and because it was still my birthday weekend and because we are still in vacation mode, we headed to Elitch Gardens, a big amusement park in downtown Denver.  Dad and I have season passes and we took mom on one of our "friend passes".  She is only mom but I guess she could be a friend too.

Mom and I rode the big wooden roller coaster.  We waited in line for AN HOUR!  I was so good and patient.  We finally actually got into our seat, seat belts buckled, arms up, ready to go when they made us all get off because of a ride malfunction!  Aauuuggghhh!  Then lucky us, we were the first back after they fixed it.  Mom said a little Hail Mary that everything was really, truly fixed.  It was and we had a screamtastic time!

This is us- we are in the back, mom is wearing the white t-shirt.  It was a great warm up for Disney World coming up in 9 days!

Monday was a true relaxation day.  We all slept in, hung out on the couch watching House Hunters until 2 in the afternoon.  We finally got some lawn mowing done and then headed out to buy summer clothes for Disney.  This was a new experience for us because if we in Tucson, we would have had our summer wardrobe since February but here, it is still 60 degrees!

 We are off to bed with apologies for mis spellings and bad grammar.  Mom's allergies are out of control and allergy medicine is crazy stuff!

We Made It!!

Whew.  We just finished the longest week on record.  Dad was in Norway/Sweden, 8 hours ahead of us and mom and I held down the fort here.  None of ate very well.  None of us slept very well (Dad in Norway where the sun sets at midnight and rises at 2 AM, mom hearing weird noises and waking up all night). But we all survived!  

Mom and I did manage to have some fun during the week.  We had my end of season soccer party on Wednesday and I had a great time running willy nilly all over the restaurant with my soccer buddies.  It was kind of a short night but that was OK because mom and I were tired and came home and crashed.

On Friday, mom took my good friend Camryn and I out to Chuck E Cheese for dinner and games.  We ignored her all night except when it came time to get more tokens.  That ended up working to mom's advantage because she was able to finish up the gobs of paperwork she had for her job.  Probably not the most professional of moves but better that doing it at 9 o'clock on a Friday night!

Saturday was just an awesome day all around!  I got to have my birthday party at Jungle Quest.  It's an indoor rope gym with rope bridges, zip lines, rope swings and rock walls!  We had a blast!  Mom really enjoyed it (seriously!) because a most of the girls were a little afraid and definitely apprehensive to try everything but by the end of the two hours, all of us were experts and had no fear.  Apparently, grown ups think that kind of thing is cool.

This is me on the rope swing- my favorite!

We suckered Camryn's dad into paying $2.00 for us to get in the Hurricane Tube.  Air blew all around us up to 80 mph and we all screamed like the little girls we are.  So Fun!!
After 2 hours of swinging, climbing and zip lining, it was time for cake and presents.

I got some really awesome stuff from my friends but my favorite was the Scarlet Bandit monster truck from Olivia.  Look how crazy excited I am!!

Mom and I got home from the party and I immediately unwrapped all my presents and mom and I played Monster Trucks, Connect 4, Squinkies and dinosaurs.  It was so fun I almost forgot that dad was coming home today.  Almost but not quite.  Dad finally got home about 5:30 and I haven't left him alone for one solitary minutes.  Good thing he's so patient because I've been unrelenting!
Sunday was a good family day.  Mom got in her run, dad his bike ride, we went to Haile for a walk and then headed to Home Depot to get dad a real lawn mower.  Our push mower seems to have rusted from being left out in the snow all winter.  Mom thinks dad did that on purpose but she does like our new one.  Everyone is off to bed early tonight- we have a very busy week coming up!
Sleep well everyone!

The Goedels Throw a Pity Party! Want to Come?

Missed last week.  Again.  No excuses this time, just wasn't up to it.  We did have a great Sunday last week though.  Sunday is always our "Family Fun Day" so we packed up and headed down to the Rockies game for the afternoon.  It was a beautiful day but beautiful and in the 50's in the sun with a cool breeze.  Our seats happened to be in the shade so it was teensy bit cooler.  We made it to the fourth inning, barely enough time for me to finish all my snacks and not enough time for mom to get a beer.  We ended up getting more snacks and sitting at a picnic table in the walk way listening to the game over the loud speaker which was much more pleasant.  There is nothing like spring baseball in the Rockies!

I had my first science project due last week as well.  I decided I wanted to see which kind of paper airplane flew the furthest- paper, magazine cover, paper bag or cardboard.  I did my research and learned about lift, drag, weight and thrust and could even tell you about each of those.  We had to talk a little about our board, so I started my presentation with "You may be wondering what this project is all about.  I will tell you......". Mom and dad found it a little amusing!

Now, onto our pity party.  We are very sad because Dat Dat had to leave for 7 whole days to go to Norway and Sweden for work.  He had to leave on Saturday afternoon which means he misses a whole bunch of stuff.  I was very, very sad to see him go and we are counting the days until he comes home (with presents for me of course).
I played my last soccer game of the season and scored a goal just for Dad.  We won 5-2.  Yeah us!  After the game, mom and I hit Target to get ready for my birthday party next week.  I'm going to be 6 in two weeks!  Can you believe it!!?

That's me in the grey sweats.  It was 45 degrees and rainy.  Awesome soccer weather!


Sunday was Mother's Day and since Dat couldn't be here, it was a lot of pressure on me but I think I did it up right!  I let mom take me to Monster Mini Golf, which I'd been begging to go to for weeks.  It was the least I could do to take care of my mom on her special day!

Then I insisted she take me out for ice cream because every mom deserves ice cream.  I got yellow birthday cake flavor and it was awesome.  We both splurged and got chocolate covered waffle cones.  Mom inhaled hers but I took longer and savored mine.

Dad called us from Tromso, Norway where he had just checked into his hotel after 20 hours of travel.  He sent us these pictures of warm and sunny Norway.  Apparently the sun only goes down for about an hour right now and even then it isn't completely dark so we hope he gets a good night's sleep!

Mom had a good Mother's Day- I was awesome for her and we had a lot of fun.  We are sending good wishes to all the other moms out there- hope your day was just as awesome!