William and Spencer's 5th Birthday

William and Spencer's birthdays are about two weeks apart, so my sister and I have a combined birthday party for them every year.  This year we had their party at Pump It Up.

Here are most of the cousins watching the safety video before the party started. 

(from left to right: Hannah, Rebecca, Abbey, Braden, Kennedy, Gage, William, Ryder, Spencer, Tyler, Brooke, and Whitney.)

Here's Avery

This is my cute sister Jodi going down the slide.

And Whitney with her broken ankle wasn't supposed to be playing, but this little gymnast couldn't resist.

Birthday Boys

I love these two boys.  Happy birthday, William and Spencer!

Mother's Day

I've had a great Mother's Day this year.  All three kids came home from church with something special for me.

Rebecca:

William:

Braden:

And this morning from Kevin I got breakfast in bed and THREE candy bars.  Chocolate is always my favorite gift, and my husband knows me well.  I hope everyone had a nice Mother's Day!

Request for the Tooth Fairy

Rebecca has been losing a lot of teeth lately.  She's lost eight teeth altogether, and she's working on her ninth.  Every time she loses a tooth, she writes a note to the Tooth Fairy requesting what she would like to get for her tooth:  

It says, "Pleas give me a doll a Barbi doll and four $ pleas thank you and I want to keep my tooth"

She's so specific about what she wants the Tooth Fairy to bring her.  I wish I had another note she wrote that said she wanted "ten buks."  And I'm not sure why she always wants to keep her teeth.  They're pretty gross.

This was the Tooth Fairy's response to her on the back of her note:

It says, "I usually only give one dollar per tooth, AND I usually take the tooth.  But here's two dollars and I gave your tooth to your mom.  Smilingly, The Tooth Fairy"

I thought I had kept all of her notes, but I can only find one.  They are all so funny to me.  I'll try to keep the note for the next tooth she loses.  She has a loose silver tooth, and she thinks the Tooth Fairy is going to give her $50 for it because it's silver.  We shall see about that.