3 Birthdays To Celebrate!

Happy Birthday to 3 grand kids!!  Parker turned 4 on Feb 13th, Evan turned 8 on Feb. 18th and Rayna turned 13 today, March 2nd!!  Yes, we have a teenager!!

It was time to head to Denver and Ft Collins to celebrate all 3 of the birthdays along with a special day at Aleah's school which has been on my calendar for a long time!!

Glenn was busy working on the house as usual so it was just me that headed up last Thursday early afternoon to miss the snow - we've been having bouts of snow every other day and luckily I made it to Denver without any heavy snow!!

I stopped at Jessi's first hoping we could go for a cup of coffee and that's exactly what we did!!  And then she told me she had signed up to read for Evan's class that afternoon and would I like to come along and read too?  ABSOLUTELY!!!  Evan was so surprised to see both of us at school and I enjoyed reading to his class!

Then it was off to Jaime's house for the rest of the day and night!  Jaime was sick with a sore throat and Brad had a cold but Rayna was in good spirits to open her gifts!!

 I decided the easiest way to celebrate was to bring Hostess Cupcakes to each of the kids and put a candle in it - and they were all thrilled!!

 Kylan and I had fun playing a game which he mostly beat me at every time!!

 It was snowing when we went to bed so I didn't sleep great, wondering how the roads were going to be when I left at 7:00am the next morning for Fort Collins.  But I shouldn't have worried because the roads were pretty much cleared off and I made great time getting there!!

Aleah's class has a "Mystery Reader" every Friday and Aleah kept asking when Robby or Jill were going to be the mystery reader - she was certainly surprised when I walked in to read!!!

 The kids all sat on a rug and I sat in the chair up front to read to them - it was all going just fine till one of the little boys choked and then threw up - yuck - not a very exciting thing to happen in the middle of the book!!

Jill had also come to school with donuts to celebrate Aleah's birthday (which is in the summer)  So she was totally unaware of that too!!!  She came up front and the teacher put a crown on her head and they all sang to her - so cute!!!

 I drove back to their house and Jill headed to work after the snacks - Parker was pretty excited to see me and we played games till Aleah got home from school!!

Then it was time for Parker to open his gifts!!  One of them was an airplane to put together (with Dad of course) and then you got to paint it and put stickers on - he was so excited about it and couldn't wait to put it together!!

 And then it was cupcake time with him!!

 We all watched a movie together before the kids went to bed and then it was adult time movie!!  What a great day!!

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