James Birthday!

January was a pretty low key month ( I was totally fine with that!) Mostly we spend a lot of time sledding behind the house, drinking hot chocolate, and working on the vehicles at night in a very cold garage. But we dud gave James birthday which gave us something fun to plan for. We didn't do a big birthday party this year but we had a family party Friday night

 He wanted lasagna, salad, jello, and french bread and he wanted a pokemon ball cake.  You can't see it well but he made labels for all the food like a pokemon had made it.

 He was pretty thrilled to get a huge pack of pokemon cards from Bridger.

 And because he wants to be a paleontologist he got a dinosaur excavation kit.

Saturday we planned on going to Scales and Tails (a reptile zoo) as his birthday activity, however we woke up to about 6 inches of snow and very icy roads and decided not to go. Instead we had Bridger and James friend Kayden who lived a few housed down from us but moved last month over to play. They played hard all day. They went sledding in the new snow, played some pokemon together, had some downtime watching a show and then went on a dinosaur dig for real fossils.

This was probably the best part. They worked so well together and got so excited as they found each fossil. They had a great time with it! It is crazy for me to think that James is 7 already! He is so much fun and such a big helper in our family I don't know what I would do without him.