The Miskin Family

I kinda like Tanner being a leap year baby, this way I have an excuse to celebrate more then one day!

On Friday Trent’s parents came into town. They wanted to take Tanner out for dinner, and he chose Tucanos. We have trained him well. It was very good, and we had a great time! Afterword, we came home and Tanner was able to open his presents. He got a beanbag chair which he has been wanting for a long time. He was very excited.

On Saturday morning, we were able to go swim in the hotel pool with Trent’s parents. I love swimming, and the kids seemed to have inherited that from me. The water was warm, which makes swimming even better!

Saturday afternoon Trent, the two older kids, and I went to the BYU Basketball game. We were very sad to see BYU lose by two points, but it was an exciting game. The kids were being pretty whiny though, so I think next time we will leave them at home. Saturday night I stayed up late and decorated a little bit so Tanner would wake up to birthday mania!

Sunday morning Trent fixed Tanner whatever breakfast he wanted: he picked egg-in-a-hole. We let him open one present from my parents before we left for Stake Conference. Tanner was very good, and patient, so when we came home we let him open the rest of his presents from my parents. He received some Star Wars galatics, a Toy Story lego set, and Star Wars Guess Who! For lunch we had some fun “bug” mac and cheese that Grandma Miskin had got him. Later that evening we had dinner with our friends Holly and Trent, who the kids like more then us. We had Tanner’s favorites: shrimp, salmon, fruit salad, asparagus and yummy bread. For Tanner’s cake I made him rainbow cupcakes and we sang happy birthday. We had a fun time that evening visiting and playing with Holly and Trent! They even brought Tanner a whole plate of chocolate chip cookies.

On Monday Tanner requested waffles for breakfast. When Tanner went off for school the girls and I hit up walmart to get some last minute presents and party stuff. I then went to Tanner’s school for his school party and I brought mini ice cream sandwiches, which were a hit! After school just Tanner and I went out to lunch at Applebees (he had a free meal from school). He was so excited about this, and even picked my meal out for me. That afternoon our Monday friends (we hang out every Monday) came over, Becca, Eli, Leah and Noah. We finished off Tanner’s cupcakes, and they gave Tanner a Star Wars Lego set. That night we had a family party with my brother and his family, and Trent’s brothers and sisters (minus one). We had a fun time eating, talking, and playing. Tanner requested a star wars themed cake and said he wanted it to be of the scene where obi wan kenobi kills darth maul. I thought I did a pretty good job recreating it (thanks to Tanner’s galactics).

After cake Tanner opened his presents from us, and some fun stuff from his cousins, aunts and uncles. He was very spoiled. He received a light for his bike, more galactics, a cars movie car, stickers, candy, treats, money, and markers.Last year Darth Vader came to his party, this year it was Darth Maul! Nadia was not very happy about that. Even when the mask was off, she was a little unsure of the whole thing.

Celebrating Tanner’s birthday was very fun, but we are sure having birthday withdrawals today.