Camping Smiley Face Birthday and other news.

Hello! Blogging began to feel like a chore, and I got burned out. Again. So I stopped blogging. Again. Now I am back. Again. Summer in Texas is like winter in the northern lands. You stay inside all day, and everyday the weather is the same. It affected my brain a bit, and I had nothing new to say or nothing new that we did. We have had some change and excitement in our life in the last month, so I feel like I have stories worth sharing! Don't worry Kerry, I am the friend who updates her blog. Again :)

Logan chose his own theme for his 4th birthday. He told me, weeks in advance, that he wanted an "outside, camping, smiley-face birthday." Since it was like, 110 here, "outside" was absolutely impossible, but we did manage the rest! We had an "inside, camping, smiley-face birthday." I decorated the house while Logan was asleep. Balloons and an old tent totally impressed him, and he said it was the "best birthday ever!"

I taped his beloved paper smileys all over the walls. I made them when he was like, 18 months old during the cold Maryland winter. Logan learned his colors from these happy little faces, and he has been in love with them ever since.
I possess great talent for cake decorating. It even LOOKS like a smiley face! hahaha. Logan absolutely loved his cake. It has the special "my mom was too cheap to buy me a real cake" look to it. Plus, we Farnsworth's hate store-bought icing.
Meet, "old tent." My parent's gave us this tent; it was the first one they bought, and the one that I used to go camping in as a little tot. I even saw my first stars from this tent! It is now, old, (it was probably manufactured long before my birth-year, right?) and the zippers don't work and the poles have no strength left in their elastics. It was NOT easy to get it put up! Until Logan's birthday, Seth and I were in strong disagreement as to whether or not "old tent" needed replacing. After "old tent" was put together (and after a bit of cursing from my husband), "old tent" was retired. But boy, did Logan love that tent!! We put his presents inside, and he truly believed the tent was one of the gifts to him as well. He even slept in the tent that night, by himself, downstairs! That is saying something since nearly every night he ends up sleeping on our bedroom floor!!! Anyway, back to the party....

Here he is unwrapping presents from inside the tent! It was obviously incredibly exciting. He also selected his clothes for the day, the beloved "Flag shirt." We spent the day at Sea World. We have season passes, so we were there a lot this summer. Result? I only took this picture! Lame-o. Logan's favorite part of the water park at Sea World is "the wave pool." He loves to be tossed by the waves, like hard-core tossed. I thought, "I'll throw him into the waves since he's so crazy, he'll love it!" (Life jacket, yes!) Uhhh....I threw him in, he loved it, he swallowed a lot of water, and then barfed in the wave pool. Happy Birthday ! I felt awesome. We did enjoy ourselves though. Seth took the day off and it wasn't even crowded. Logan recovered quickly and even did the little kid water slide. Which, would have been nice to have a picture of......

Logan really wanted a campfire but alas, not this August, not in Texas! The whole state would've burned up. Also, who wants a campfire when it's still 100 degrees at midnight? I made him a faux campfire out of Christmas lights-he loved it. I also put up a bunch of pictures of him as a baby and such. We had "the other Farnsworth's" over for dinner that evening. Steve and Seth are related! Weird? Yes. Not them, it's weird that we found some (distant) relations here. All in all, a great birthday!

3 days later the kids and I flew to Utah and spent August there, fleeing the heat!