Birthday Weekend

Last weekend June, 7th I turned 27. The girls woke up bright and early and Danika cut up all our fruit and made me a fruit salad and Steve made poached eggs. Later In the morning Steve took Danika for her birthday present... to get her ears pierced! She has been wanting this for quite some time, so we finally did it! We did some serious research and Steve took her to a tattoo parlour in duncan, that many friends have recommended. Danika was absolutely terrified as the piercer looked pretty rough. He told Danika they were putting hoops in and apparently everytime he turned around Danika was shaking her head wildly because the guy had huge hoops in his ears! Steve said that it was a really good experience though, he put on numbing cream and Danika didn't even feel it. She was very excited! 

In the afternoon my Aunt and Uncle from Oregon came up to visit. They stopped by in the afternoon to drop off boxes of delicious food and drinks! We were so spoiled. After they checked into their hotel in Duncan, they came back and Uncle Gary helped Steve set up his Birthday/ fathers day present... a new BBQ. We finally caved after a couple bad ones and bought a Weber... hopefully it lasts a long time! 

Auntie Dolores and I took the kids and dog for a walk and once we got home we ate delicious BBQ'ed steak, a few different salads and then they brought us a birthday cake complete with Champagne and Martinellis for the girls! 

It was a lovely evening! 

The next morning was Danika's birthday. We woke up, she opened a few of her presents, had french toast with whipped cream, sprinkles and a candle! 

Beautiful new dress from grandma

We went to church and then met Uncle Gary and Auntie Dolores at Birds of Prey. 

It was very interesting... we spent 4 hours there and stayed for both flying demonstrations! 

 This is a stork... he was hideous! When we walked up I told the girls, that that was where babies are from... I got quite the laughs from other people around... but the stork did deliver babies on Dumbo! 

 We brought Lize along for the day, the girls had lots of fun! It was HOT outside!

 We left Amara home with a babysitter, as it would have been impossible to sit and listen with her. Plus it was during her nap time, so it worked out perfectly! 

We went home for Danika's requested birthday dinner of a taco dinner and then we got to open some presents. The girls both had new wardrobes from my mom and Auntie Dolores. I remember as a kid when Auntie would come up from the States with giftbags full of clothes and the girls got to experience that. Dolores went into the room with the girls and they did a fashion show for us. They were pretty excited at all the beautiful new clothes!
We had a wonderful weekend!