Happy Birthday Baby! I can't believe Ashton is 5 already! We started Ashton's birthday out right with me waking him up at 3:10 am by singing him happy birthday. It was so sweet. At the end he said cha cha cha and then fell back to sleep. The bad part was two hours later he woke up and was throwing up on the stairs, so I had to help him get cleaned up and settled down. No fun getting sick on your birthday.
We kept breakfast simple in hopes that it wouldn't upset Ashton's tummy more. We had birthday waffles with candles and all! Here is the video of us singing happy birthday.
Ashton got some really fun gifts. Thank you to Daddy, Grandma and Grandpa Lawrence, Aunt Mindy and Uncle Andy, Grandma Bea, and Grandma and Grandpa Casper for thinking of Ashton. He really enjoyed all the fun things! Ashton is excited to go shopping with his gift card. I hear he may be getting a lot of hot wheels! Ashton and Thaddaeus will also be joining the Chess Club at school as a gift.
Ashton wanted to bring cupcakes to school for his class, so we made vegetarian vanilla cupcakes with orange icing! YUMMY! As you can see Ashton couldn't believe there was only 1 left!
We'll continue the celebrating this weekend at the Hagerman Fossil Bed National Monument. Look forward to seeing you if you can come with us!
Red Rocket turns Party Wagon! 
With a full car load we set off to Hagerman to visit the fossil beds. We battled some weather along the way. It prevented us from going out to the beds them selves but the visitor's center was so full of information and activities that I don't think we missed out at all. The staff was so amazing and really made every effort to make our experience both educational and memorable.
Here is the main exhibit area where actual fossils are on display from the local fossil bed. This is one of the prehistoric horses that have been found at the site.
One of the rangers explaining some of the exhibits on display.
One of the Rangers talking about how these large cats that would attach the horses and other smaller mammals in the area at that time.
Thad is getting attacked by one of these fossils, like a cute little bunny!
Trinity is showing Ashton some fossilized teeth. She may have a future in teaching. She is such a smart young lady.
Everyone getting ready to practice digging out a man made fossil!
Even Ranger Steve joined in the fossil excavation!
Here are the birthday cupcakes I made for the party. My long neck dinosaur was a little cramped on the cake pan.
Our troop leaving to go home. We stopped at the look out point for the fossil beds. Great view!
Thank you Amrta & Sara for letting your families come and celebrate Ashton's birthday with us. We really enjoyed the whole trip! We are so blessed to have such wonderful friends!
We want to wish a big happy birthday to Grandma Shannie! We all know she is a BIG Boncos fan, so the boys and I decided to give her a themed birthday surprise.
Next we had to arrange a time and place to deliver all these goodies! So since Grandma was going to be in the office we decided to surprise her there. Unfortunately due to some technical difficulties it didn't work out to everyone's disappointment.
We will have to reschedule our birthday party wishes for Saturday. Updates to come...
