Birthday #2 and Party #2

Aiden's birthday friends getting ready to snow shoe

Finn isn't sure what we are doing, but he's ready to go!

The Naturalist is explaining the snow shoes

Our buddy, Andy (younger brother of twins Jack and Charlie)

The whole gang looking for animal tracks

It was plenty cold enough and snowy

Landon, Aiden, Luke, and Keaton

Everyone did really well with it

Aiden

Warming up after being outside

The naturalist brought in a snake for us to check out

Finn and Charlie

Touching the snake

Even Finn touched the snake

Aiden's Winter Celebration Cake

Singing Happy Birthday 

Aiden and his girl friends (Annika-left and Reagan-right)

We celebrated Birthday #2 and Birthday Party #2 over the weekend.  While Aiden turned five last weekend (Jan 2), Luke and Liam turned SEVEN this weekend (Jan 11).  Since we flip flopped weekends for parties, Aiden's party was over the weekend (the day before Luke and Liam's birthday).  I was hoping to find something different for Aiden's party.  The parks and recreation system in our area is fantastic so we decided on a party at the nature center.  It is a new building with lots of windows and fun stuff to see and do.  Since it is inevitable that the weather will be cold and snowy on Aiden's birthday, we went with a winter celebration theme and he chose to do a snow shoe party.  Although it was a little tricky getting on all the snow shoes (and keeping them on), everyone seemed to enjoy it.  It was bitter cold, but no one complained.  We did not stay out for very long, but we took a short nature hike to look for animal tracks (we only found deer poop).  After the snow shoeing, we came inside to meet a snake, and then enjoy cake and presents.  Overall, everyone seemed to have a great time.

On Sunday, we celebrated Luke and Liam's 7th birthday.  They used the gift cards they received on their birthday to buy a 1,000+ piece lego set that we will be working on for quite some time.  They also did some skating in the backyard, and finally we went out to dinner with friends after their second hockey game.