Hunter's Fifth Birthday - Part II

On Saturday, we kicked off the birthday celebration with breakfast at McDonald's before Hunter's soccer game

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After the soccer game, we headed up north to Santa Cruz, for a ride on the Roaring Camp Railroad. We were treated to a ride through the redwood forest on a 100 year-old steam engine

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So glad Mom and Dad were able to join us!

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Checking out the engine with Pappa

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Too hard to resist taking cheesy pictures!

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Timeout!

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Entrance to Roaring Camp

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My fourth cake creation (Hunter's third birthday cake was courtesy of Costco since we were out of town!) Hunter requested a Toy Story 3 cake, with Buzz, Woody, and Jessie "because she's pretty" :o)

It was a chocolate fudge cake with Reeses peanut butter frosting filling. The outer frosting is homemade almond butter cream. All the decorating was done with the butter cream, and the figures are from Toys R Us.

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Once I saw Hunter's first impression of the cake, I instantly forgot what a pain it was to make :o)

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Awesome alien party hats! I laugh out loud every time I see this picture. Morgan was thinking 'I hope they don't make me wear a goofy hat on MY birthday!' and Hunter was thinking 'LET'S EAT!'

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A complete set of cooking tools from Grandma and Pappa - no kiddie stuff here, this is the real deal!

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Really cool recordable birthday card from Grandma and Grandpa (Nilson) (in addition to an awesome pirate book and sea monkeys!)

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Justin is teaching Hunter Arabic (I'm trying, but dang it's hard!) so he gave Hunter a big Arabic picture dictionary, and wrote him a special birthday message on the inside-

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Justin, reading the Arabic to Hunter

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Our good friends and former neighbors, the Farmers (you'll remember them from last years camping blog!) sent Hunter a set of build-it-yourself monster trucks!

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Hunter had a great birthday, and we can't believe he's FIVE! Hunter has celebrated his five birthdays in four different homes, and as of now, we aren't sure what state we'll be celebrating in next year!

Happy Birthday little man, we love you, and we are so proud of you. You make us laugh and smile each and every day, and we can't wait to see what you're going to do next!