Monday, March 30, 2009

Birthday Celebration!

We celebrated Kai's 10th birthday at Moonlight beach with our family and friends. Kai has 2 other close friends who turn 10 - Violet on the April 2nd and Robbie on April 1st. Well, we all decided it would be cool to celebrate together at the beach. And celebrate we did! We invited our families, a very small bunch of mutual friends and their family members and enjoyed the company. Jeff ended up being pounced upon by the lot of kids, they played in the sand, they played at the playground, they sang the birthday song and blew out some candles. We are definitely blessed. Here is a slideshow made from the pictures friends took (thanks!). The slideshow has music, so pause the music on the side bar and enjoy.


Celebration of #10 from Beachbum on Vimeo.

As an aside, there was another group at the park right next to us that had a few teens playing guitars and singing. Great sounds and fun to hear. Goes well with the music! And, it's just a tidbit I don't want to forget.

You can visit Mandy's blog to see her version of this special day for Violet...here. She talks about stuff I didn't mention.

We celebrated our family gift time on Saturday night. Auntie Mary was here, too, and that made it extra special. He got everything on his wish list and a few things that surprised him. He had asked for a game cube and 3 games and two sets of Grandparents made that happen. With his gift card he just ordered 2 more and a book. Kade gave him a set of board games, which Kai thought was cool. Annie got him a skate board with lessons. Jeff and I gave him a Japanese style bowl/cup/dipping sauce set (that Pete hand made). The bowls have notches for the chop sticks and the set is beautiful. Baba and Grandpa Jon also got him a zafu and now he has a great Japanese themed set.

Pretty much, he's a very contented boy. I'd include more pictures, but he chooses not to have them taken often. They'd show him with a contented smile.

5 comments:

  1. What a fun, fun day!
    Jeff reminds me of Drew...a magnet for the kids! Maeve said "they really like that dad"!

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  2. I'm glad that Kai had such a great day. And about the pictures, Violet made a deal with me and said I could take the picture of her with Camille and Big sis pear and then I was done. LOL I said okay! So they actually posed. : )
    It was so great for the kids to get to celebrate together. Fun, fun times.....
    Great video! Love the music! (I still have Iz's Over the Rainbow in my head from the beach...)Oh, and Violet got a bday card from nana & grandpa with it playing when you open it.

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  3. So much fun that day! Happy Birthday, again Kai!

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  4. Happy Birthday Kai! We miss you guys. Yes! Your feed works now :) Now I won't miss your new posts.
    Love,
    Sahara

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  5. Looks like a grand time was had by all!! Fun, fun times!

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