Julien's 7th Birthday

I don't know how it happened but my baby turned 7.  SEVEN.  It went by too fast.  We did a lot for his birthday this year.  Rich had a free night stay at a downtown Marriott for being such a great employee (employee of the month:)), so we thought it would be fun to use it for Julien's birthday!  We checked in at about 4 pm and then walked across the st. to eat at Denny's since it's the only thing close by that was affordable.  After that we walked back to the hotel and Daddy and Julien and Jonah headed off to the movie theaters to see Cars 2.  Ever since Julien heard that movie was coming out near his birthday, he had planned on doing that for his birthday.  I was bummed that I missed out but Cooper won't even watch movies at home (although he just recently got interested in Barney), so we knew he would most likely want to run around in the theater.  I stayed back with Coop and blew up balloons and decorated the hotel.  Cooper missed his nap that day and was so tired and cranky.  He kept trying to bite the balloons as I was blowing them up, so he had to go in his crib for a bit.  He wasn't happy about that.  See pictures...

After I got everything ready I was able to get Cooper to sleep.  He slept until they got back and things got noisy.

Here's the boys coming in the room.  They didn't know I had balloons......

Priceless expression from Julien.  My sister sent a present for him too, so one was from her and the other from us.

My sister got him the Toy story towel with his name embroidered on it and the matching swim trunks and glasses.  We got him a little Cars 2 coloring book, colored pencils, the Tangled sound tract (He really wanted it...so did I:)) and we got him the game Twister.  He was thrilled with everything he got, as you can tell on his face.

Our view of the city was great.  My camera couldn't capture it though....

And the it's neat in the day time too...

It was a crazy night.  I barely slept.  Cooper was not loving it at all and Rich was tossing and turning because he was hot and finally called to get a fan.  We had the A.C. on but he loves having a fan too.  Then Julien was tossing and turning.  The next day Cooper was so tired and so when the kids wanted to go swimming, I stayed home so Cooper could sleep and I took a long nap too!  After swimming we had the dinner of Julien's choice.  He wanted me to make Salmon, mashed potatoes and salad.  That I did, and then we ended the night by watching Tangled and eating the birthday dessert he picked out...

Happy Birthday Julien!  We love you so much! We are so proud of who you are becoming!  You are smart, confident, super friendly, loving, creative, spiritual, and passionate about life, people, and learning.  You set a great example for your brothers and your friends.  We're so happy you came into our family 7 years ago and we have loved you like crazy ever since!