Rick's bday

Today was Rick's bday (thank goodness) Mia has been

obsessing over it for 2 weeks now. We did a Disney Cars

theme ( Mia's idea) , so we did a race track cake and used the

31 as the track, we then used Mia's little cars like Lightning McQueen to put

around the track. It was really fun and super easy to make. Mia did her own invitations

and even put dad, Mia, and the number 6 for the time in the invites, it was sooo cute!

Of course we couldn't eat the race track cake, so Grandma

B brought the bundt cake, better known as butt cake since

that's where it goes. We had both grandparents over and got

pizzas from Ray down the street. It was so cute watching Mia

excited for Rick to open presents.

Rick looking at his cake

Mia explaining how she made the cake

blowing out candles- funny to think I married this guy when he

was only 26!

Rick just had ACL surgery so he had to sit a lot, but Mia

didn't mind doing all the work for him, one of his gifts was

a racing experience with an Indy car all by himself. I've had

it secret for a long time, he was excited. Mia said she's going to

come and wear her Dora helmet. Haha!!

I also got him a 6 course Moraccin restaurant date night so

we had Mia come out with belly dancing wrap and do a dance before

she gave him the gift, it was hilarious! I didn't get a pic of the

outfit, but we got it on video

good little helper

No pics of grandparents ( oops) but it was

a great bday!!

Some stuff we've been up to: Mia got to

go to a dinosaur track museum in St. George,

Utah yesterday while helping her aunt Brooke move.

This is like Disneyland to her, she LOVES dinos,

just wait til Halloween, ( I was picturing something

girly, nope she's going to be a Pteradactl)

They found this Trex footprint right there in

St. George, she was amazed.

This is the leg bone of an Allosaur-

Mia's first time getting REALLY dirty. This is what you

do when you have dirt in your backyard.

people pay a lot of money for one of these

lovely mud baths!

oh my :)

We headed up to Mt. Charleston for a hike and of course

Mia collected sticks the whole time ( a little genetic thing she

got from her Grandma M, along with collecting rocks, dinosaurs,

stuffed animals, etc- this is not from my side, we throw everything away)

dad and Mia

growing up

Rick and I had to go to a  "redneck" party

for Dustin, this was the best we could do!

Mia at the Natural History Museum- she just eats this stuff up

That's what we've been up to. Mia got VERY sick after

her FIRST week of preschool, so we've been homebound,

but she's better so we will try again this week. She's also doing

dance again at Bunker and is very excited about it- she even showed

us some contemporary stuff she learned on her own where she was being very

serious and it was pretty cute. More dance pics to come :)