Happy Birthday, Elijah!

What a memorable birthday this has been for Elijah!  We are encountering the Blizzard of 2011, but I will save that for another post.  We had already planned a light day of school for today, but with Chris' office closed (along with the rest of the town!), we gave up school all together today.

We started off the day with Elijah's request of cinnamon rolls.  Yum!

Then it was on to a few presents.

 

 

Actually, all five kids cashed in on birthday presents today.  We chose to do something a bit different this year and purchased season passes to Silver Dollar City.  They are all very excited about it, and we already have several dates in mind to go and enjoy some family time.  

Next up our wonderful neighbor, "Grandpa H", braved the blizzard, wearing his snow cleats, to navigate walking down our driveway to wish Elijah a happy birthday.  He gave Elijah a pretty cool mini-tool chest complete with tools. 

 Elijah played in the snow quite a bit, along with his siblings and the neighbor boys.  It was a fun day to just play and be a boy. 

It's a good thing we hadn't planned to go out for a birthday dinner today!  Elijah chose to have fish, rice, corn, and fruit salad.  He was also very specific about his birthday cake.  It was to be strawberry cake with whipped cream and "Sonic" cherries on top.  This boy loves his food!

It was fun to celebrate Elijah's birthday again.  We are indeed blessed to have him as part of our family.  This is only our third birthday together.  He has no memories of birthdays with his birth family in China, so it is definitely fun to play up these special days and give him some special attention.  We love you, Elijah!