Mom's 39th, 4th of July, Dad's 43rd birthday

We celebrated my birthday, on my birthday (June 28th), with a nice low key evening.  I was welcomed with wonderful cards in the morning. Axel's card made me cry. I have it posted below. My biggest purpose in life is to make sure that I am doing God's will and passing on his love. For Axel to write these words give me the hope that God's love is at work in our lives despite my short comings. 

I dropped off Phoenix and Axel and then raced home in time for Marlena to watch Rubix while I got in a quick ride. I always love to ride up the hill on my birthday. It is one of those things where I feel so at peace being in God's company while I bask in his beautiful creation. Afterwards, Rubix and I had our usual day of story time at the library (which he still can't sit through) and some play at home.

Daddy had plans to pick up Axel and get sushi and ice cream cake. He thought he was really clever with the Happy "Bri"thday. Our sitter, Marlena works at Baskin Robins and apparently decorated the cake for us. She did a lovely job.

Keith found the same beautiful dark purple Calla Lilies that we had at our wedding. We hope to plant them in our backyard soon. You can see Axel is upset in this picture. All three kids were crying and having a meltdown just before dinner. I actually took a video of it. I did not choose to post it though. It was one of those moments where all you can do is laugh. I just wanted a nice evening with my wonderful little family and it turned out to be a bit of a cry fest. Despite the grief Axel was processing from his adventures at Golfland, Milpitas (where his prizes were stolen), I felt so grateful to be alive and well. I usually pray for health for the kiddos, Keith and myself, but I realized I didn't pray for that as Rubix was quick to blow out most of the candles himself. It was very cute!

On Friday, Axel went to morning practice before summer school. Rubix always gets really excited about going to the pool, but doesn't always follow through when he actually gets there. Here is a cute picture of Rubix in his excitement to go to the pool when he heard Axel was going swimming.

We had a nice low key 4th of July as well. We have been extremely busy and will be extremely busy starting next weekend again, so we planned a low key 4th and weekend. Here is a picture of the Szolusha boys at Kevin Moran park for the 4th of July celebration. We all tried to do red, white and blue.

Here is a family picture that Tyler took for us. It was a very exciting morning as we saw Tyler with Jade and Zoe, Axel R. and his family, Kyla and her family and Axel's teachers Mrs. Ferreti and Mrs. Russell.

I wanted to include one picture of the ceremony as I love how they bring back old traditions like praying to God in public and as a community and replicating the apparel worn in colonial times. It is really cool to see people of all ethnicities come together to celebrate our countries freedom.

We stayed well past when the event ended because the kids were having so much fun playing with their friends. You can see Phoenix was exhausted and was in the stroller and Axel is being his charming, big brother self, walking hand in hand with Rubix.

Daddy wanted to get a picture of me, so I made sure to include it :)

I captured another picture of Axel being his charming self when the kids were making birthday cards for Daddy. It is amazing how good Axel is with Rubix when he wants to be. 

 Daddy ordered me an amazing cast iron griddle for my birthday. It arrived last night so I was able to use it for the first time to cook Daddy's birthday breakfast. As you can see it is HUGE! Apparently, the gentleman who was helping us purchase it didn't realize it fits "most two burner outdoor grills" and not "most two burner indoor stove tops." The awesome things is I will never have to complain about it being too small! I think I will be able to cook up to 10 pancakes at a time. It is reversable so I can also grill meat on the other side that has grates.

Phoenix insisted on serving Daddy breakfast in bed. She also was sweet enough to ask her head of school if she could take another thermos for her Daddy for his birthday. Challenger school had been giving out these thermoses and water bottles for free for a couple of weeks. Keith saw the one Phoenix brought home for herself and she understood that he really liked it and wanted one for himself.  I was really proud of her for being so thoughtful.

 Daddy thoroughly enjoyed reading his cards and the surprise breakfast in bed.

 I included this picture below as you can see Rubix stealing Daddy's breakfast sausage from his plate.

To be funny Daddy put a sausage in his mouth to claim it. Rubix, unfortunately, did not want to be apart of the picture. 

 We have had a very blessed 10 days celebrating both of our birthdays and the 4th of July. We feel so very grateful for each day that we have! God Bless!