Quinn is 10!

Hard to believe, but our oldest is a decade old.  Quinn had a good birthday this year.  He had a party with all of his friends from church and they had a clue hunt to find a treasure.  It was fun watching them try to figure out the clues and it was hard to keep up with them once they figured one out.  They had to play games before they could read some of the clues.  They had a great time!

Quinn and his donut cake.

Pizza time!  The first clue was under one of the boxes.

The boys had to pop balloons to find their next clue.

This clue was a real puzzler.

There was a clue buried in the LEGO bucket.

The boys had to play ring toss to read one of the clues.

Chasen reads a clue.

This clue was taped to the garage door - they had to lower the door to find it.

This clue tested their cub scout abilities.  It was hidden on the flag.

On the hunt!

The boys putting their heads together.

The "treasure" was hidden in the washing machine.

U.S. Space & Rocket Center

We had a pretty low key spring break. Doug took the week off and pretty much just hung out. We did go to the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville. We had a lot of fun. There was a rock climbing wall, a Mars Rover simulator, the G-Force Simulator, and lots of other cool stuff. 

Liam turns 1!

I can't believe Liam is one already! We celebrated a day early because of Doug and Quinn both had cub scouts tonight. We had some good friends come over for to celebrate with us. I think the big kids were more excited about his toys then he was.

Riley turns 5!!!

These are some pictures from Riley's family party and her friend party. She had a princess/superhero party. It was tons of fun.

Riley wanted a rainbow cake. I wasn't sure how it would turn out but it turned out great!

Christmas Morning Treasure Hunt

We had a good Christmas here in the Denton home.  The kids were up around 6:30 or so and dug into their stockings.  Then it was off to open presents.  It was really fun to have Liam crawling around and getting involved in his first Christmas.

  After all the presents had been opened, we had a visit to our advent calendar from Lego Santa Yoda.  He put a clue in the last day that started the kids on a treasure hunt to find clues that would lead them to one last gift..

Here is the video of the hunt.  The clues are shown below in case you can't hear the kids.

Santa Yoda hanging out at the calendar.

Here are all the clues the kids found.

First clue (read best in your best Yoda voice).

This clue was in the Bible at Luke 2.

They found this clue hanging from the ceiling of the minivan.

The next clue was hidden in the microwave of Riley's play kitchen.

 

This clue was hidden in the chest in our front hallway. Sensei Wu is a Lego Ninjago character and "Big Head Joe" is a name that the kids gave a Star Wars Jedi character that has a cone head (Ki Adi Mundi for all you Star Wars nerds).

 

This clue was found hanging from the Lego figure of "Big Head Joe".

The last clue was hanging inside the clothes dryer.

So the final gift was a new Wii.  Our old one stopped working a few months ago and it made more sense to buy a new one than to repair the old one thanks to Christmas sales.  We got a black one to replace the old white one.  The kids were really excited!