You're having the best birthday ever!!!

According to Adam, Brady had the best birthday ever yesterday! He kept repeating it over and over. Granted, I did make him homemade cinnamon rolls and Isabel and Ben got him presents at Toys R' Us and we had mexican food for dinner, so how could it not be the best birthday ever? :)

Since it was the 4th we had fireworks. Grandma Janene had sparklers for the kids. They all loved them except Ari, which surprised all of us seeing how she is such a daredevil.

Brady also bought poppers, the kind that you throw hard on the ground and they explode. Grandpa Grant was kind enough to show the kids that they could throw the poppers at the ants and watch them explode. Check out Ben's follow-through!

Isabel loved the sparklers!

So did Ben. It was funny cause he and Sarah kept trying to blow them out. They all liked to hear them sizzle when they put the used sparklers in the bucket of water.

Then came the burning of the ants. Must have been like Armageddon for those poor things. First the poppers being thrown at them, then the fire!

When we started to roast marshmallows Adam looked at me and said, "I know, we can drip melted marshmallows on the ants to kill them! That would be awesome!" That idea got veto'd because of the mess :) Even though we wouldn't let him burn ants with marshmallows he kept going up to Brady saying, "you're having the best birthday ever, aren't you". Brady would just answer ,"sure thing!"

Grandma Janene bought party poppers that you would hold and pull the string and streamers would come out. The camera wasn't fast enough to catch the streamers coming out, but I did manage to get a picture of the ones that landed on Brady! Adam was ecstatic, because there were streamers at a birthday party and they exploded! Things just kept getting better :)

The kids then roasted marshmallows and Brady roasted a cinnamon roll that I made for his birthday breakfast! Mmmmm tasty! Then the fireworks started. From the top of the swingset the kids could see them in all directions! They were screaming OOO, AAHHH, WOW! Then Brady got some fireworks out in the front and the kids sat on my lap and on the lawn and watched him and the neighbors light some. Adam was even allowed to throw a few flowers until he landed one under their car :/ Sarah ended up watching from indoors cause it was too loud.
This is how Ben ended up; falling asleep while covering his ears (must have been really loud with tubes in). I guess you could say Brady had the best birthday ever.... at least to a 5 year old :)

Happy birthday Brady! We love you!