Ryan's Big 3 - 0 Celebration

Ryan hit the 3-0 milestone this week. 

Since he's been busy at work (and I had an activity on his birthday), we decided to celebrate a couple days later.  Kherington and Kevin were in the charge of the cake.  Kherington did the eggs all by herself.  Kevin was charge of dumping the mix in and adding the water.

The kids also decorated.  I just got down the birthday box and let them choose what they wanted to use.  For dinner we had jalapeno cheddar burgers topped with a bacon weave and guacamole.  I'm not a big burger person, but these were delicious. 

After dinner we broke out the pinata that the kids filled earlier that day.  We started out with the kids blindfolded, using plastic bats to hit a dangling pinata.  That was way too difficult.  We dropped the pinata to the ground and let them hit it there without a blindfold. From there we went to Ryan hitting it with a broomstick.  The broomstick broke in half.  Haha.  That was one rock solid pinata. We eventually got it open, then we'd hit some candy out and let the kids gather it up before knocking some more out.  I think this should be a new birthday tradition.

Next up was cake.  It ended up being a chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting that I had been saving in the freezer.  The kids were in charge of sticking all the candles in and helping blow out the candles.  After cake they gave him his presents we picked out when were in the states. 

We all had a fun time celebrating Ryan.  I initially felt a little bad for not doing something big, but looking back at these pictures we had a lot of fun together as a family and that's what counts.