Happy Birthday Aydin

Its Aydin's Birthday!!

I cannot believe I have an eight year old already. Yes- you are reading correctly- Aydin turned 8! This year, he wanted his friends to come over to play and sleep over. These boys had a great time. Aydin woke up…. Early as usual and wanted to open presents before the sun came up! Of course… since I love birthdays- I didn’t make him wait.

His new bike.

His friend from school came by around lunch time to take Aydin to the pet store and got him his very own beta fish and tank. He thought this was so cool!

Around 4 his friends starting showing up and that’s when all the fun began. They played on the trampoline, army (nerf wars), ordered pizza, built a fire outside, jumped some more, roasted marshmallows, had a dance party, balloon fights, opened presents, and then finally sat down at around 9:30 to watch Iron Man 2 (Aydins favorite).
These boys had so much candy and snacks- they didn’t even touch the cake I had decorated for Aydin….

Yum... Marshmallows

Balloon wars...

Finally.... They sat down long enough to watch a movie

SO- Sunday night we had friends over for dinner and cake…. To celebrate Aydin some more. We are so happy and grateful Aydin is in our family. He is such a great help, a sweet, loving, compassionate, and caring little man. He loves his sister (most of the time) and brother.

Busch Gardens

The kids had Friday off from school- so we decided to take the kids to Busch Gardens Tampa Bay. The weather was not the best… off and on rain- but that kept the crowd down for sure! We were able to walk onto every ride we all wanted- all before noon.

Aydin and Steve rode every ride there and loved every one of them! Morgan had a great time at the kid park and even rode the Cheetah Chase. Jimmie Frank (Aydins friend) was a little too short for some rides... but rode all he could. While Steve and Aydin went on some taller rides, we went and did the other ones the two could ride. Morgan is not a huge fan of rides- so getting her on even one was a huge deal!

It started raining around 3:30 so we just packed up… walked as fast as we could back to the car and came home. It was a great day!!

Steve and I took turns on this ride... Aydin went on it again he loved it so much.

Aydin and Jimmie are in the front row.

While Steve and Aydin were riding rides- Jimmie and Morgan were in the kid park- on height appropriate rides :)

Steve took the boys on more rides... so Morgan got to feed the kangaroos

And ride rides all by herself

One of the last rides before the rain fall....