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HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAOIRSE

We love birthdays around here. That's the real reason we have so many children.....so we have more birthdays to celebrate :-) We had a wonderful day. The girls made Saoirse's birthday sign. I never did get around to putting up the streamers though. We picked Jeremiah up from work and headed to the "Dragon Park" (what my girls call it). It was nice that it was early evening as there were not a lot of people there. This is a large park and it can be hard to keep track of everyone if it's busy. We came home and cooked up the rest of Saoirse's birthday dinner. She chose roast chicken, garlic green beans, mashed potatoes and (of course) cranberry sauce. Moira made the birthday cake. It was loved by all :-) Here is her day in pictures:


Saoirse with her birthday sign. Lots of doggies! Isabella had printed some out, cut them out, traced them and then with the help of her sisters colored them in!

We always visit the dragon first when we go to the park. Otherwise he may be upset and try to eat us all :-)

Here is the whole dragon popping up here and there from the ground.

Jedidiah always enjoys the dragon. He had a lot of fun climbing on him.

Some young maidens about to be a yummy lunch for a big mean dragon. They innocently walk along this ridge and find themselves in the dragons mighty grip of his tail. Where is a prince when you need one? Hee, hee.....Oh, I think he went off to play in the sand box....

Isabella made peace with the dragon, and here she is posing for us.

Just some more innocent people, not aware of a big green dragon creeping up behind them to gobble them up. This is one dangerous park! Ok, enough silliness. I have Moira sitting here next to me and she keeps saying, "Moooooom.....Mooooom stop it".

Next it was time to play in the sand. The other girls were looking forward to riding on the tire swing, especially since they had Daddy to push them. Saoirse isn't such a dare devil, so she stuck with something safe :-)

Um, Jonah, the sand is not for eating! Yes, this boy puts EVERYTHING in his mouth. This was his first experience playing in the sand.

What cuteness!

There are a couple of different sand play areas at this park. This one has a couple little "houses" for the kids to play in and around. Here's Jedidiah checking things out.

I was snapping Jedidiah's picture and looked up to see Jonah looking at me from afar. I zoomed in to take this cute picture.

I thought this one was really cute. I unfortunately missed the shot I was trying to get by a millisecond. Both Jonah and Jeremiah were looking at each other, but here Jeremiah is starting to look away. I thought it was cute that they were just enjoying each other.

A fair maiden in an enchanted wood. I always love this little area of the park. It looks really lovely.

Birthday cake time! We sat down after this to light the candles and sing.

Here is a group shot we took right before leaving the park. It was the only one we got. Flannery was wondering why Jed was upset. After I got their attention again, one of them looked down to see a bunch of ants crawling along the crevices of the rocks. That freaked most of them out and that was the end to the group photo shoot. Many of them have experience of getting bit by ants and they were taking no chances to see if these were the biting kind.