Brandon had a birthday this week. My favorite part of his birthday, he takes a week off of work. So he got to enjoy his birthday, at least I hoped he enjoyed it. This is definitely a week that we don't diet in our family, birthdays and our anniversary.
Do you see how excited they are? I just love that Britton is so excited about Brandon's present. So what was it?
Giant Marshmallows! That's right! A friend told Brandon about these earlier this summer and he was excited when we found them and tried them. But then we couldn't find them again. So when I saw them at the store as I was grocery shopping I knew I had to get them for his birthday. He also got a treadmill, it showed up at our house last March.
This is what we did for his birthday. Extreme Makeover built a house in Pocatello and the big reveal was on Brandon's birthday. So we went down and got to stand in the crowd. We did get to cheer and chant as they filmed the crowd. We left before the family got home, we waited three hours, an hour after they first said the family would show up, and the kids were so tired so we left.
William did really well for the first two hours. He did see some of the designers while he was sitting on our shoulders.
Britton got really tired of the hiking back pack, but she was really good at cheering.
Bradley slept through the whole experience. Caitlyn and William took turns on shoulders, and Caitlyn said that she only dropped a few crumbs on my head.
Brandon was really excited about his cake this year. He picked it out himself and then I made it.
It's an ice cream cake. I found the recipe, Died and Gone to Heaven Cake, in a book called
Devil's Food Cake by Josi S. Kilpack. Brandon requested mint chocolate chip ice cream in the middle and Butterfinger on the top. It turned out really well. William has decided that he wants ice cream cake for his birthday too, so we will be having a lot of ice cream this week.
Do you see how excited they are? I just love that Britton is so excited about Brandon's present. So what was it?
Giant Marshmallows! That's right! A friend told Brandon about these earlier this summer and he was excited when we found them and tried them. But then we couldn't find them again. So when I saw them at the store as I was grocery shopping I knew I had to get them for his birthday. He also got a treadmill, it showed up at our house last March.
This is what we did for his birthday. Extreme Makeover built a house in Pocatello and the big reveal was on Brandon's birthday. So we went down and got to stand in the crowd. We did get to cheer and chant as they filmed the crowd. We left before the family got home, we waited three hours, an hour after they first said the family would show up, and the kids were so tired so we left.
William did really well for the first two hours. He did see some of the designers while he was sitting on our shoulders.
Britton got really tired of the hiking back pack, but she was really good at cheering.
Bradley slept through the whole experience. Caitlyn and William took turns on shoulders, and Caitlyn said that she only dropped a few crumbs on my head.
Brandon was really excited about his cake this year. He picked it out himself and then I made it.
It's an ice cream cake. I found the recipe, Died and Gone to Heaven Cake, in a book called Devil's Food Cake by Josi S. Kilpack. Brandon requested mint chocolate chip ice cream in the middle and Butterfinger on the top. It turned out really well. William has decided that he wants ice cream cake for his birthday too, so we will be having a lot of ice cream this week.
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