Happy 7th Birthday Peter!

Peter is 7 today!  We are so thankful for our favorite little boy.  He is funny, smart, and sweet.  He has great jokes, loves to give compliments, and knows facts about animals and many other things.  He brings much joy to our family!

Today we celebrated by having waffles and then Peter opened his gifts.  Then we went to Craig's Cruisers with Peter's friend Nicholas.  We had fun playing games and eating the yummy buffet lunch!

Remote controlled helipcopter!

This year's Hess vehicle set: 
helicopter and rescue vehicle

Doodle Track Car and boys devotional book

Cars socks and bike lights from Esther

Puzzle and headlamp from Miriam

Now we're packing up and ready to head to Florida!

Kuperus Christmas

Today we celebrated Christmas with Casey's family. We went to his parents' house after church and enjoyed a relaxing day of food, playing games, more food, opening gifts, and more food. It was a wonderful day! We've been joking that it's a good thing we like each other so much since this is the 5th party we've had together in a 4 weekend stretch between birthdays and Christmas celebrations! We really do enjoy being together and the cousins especially love having time to play together.

 

Cousin play time!

Casey's mom made a birthday cake
for Jesus and we sang Happy Birthday

Playing Esther's new Tri-Ominos game

Peter received a cool Lego Brickmaster set,
a new controller for his racetrack, and
a Cars Autonaut Mater truck

He got right to work making Lego vehicles

Miriam got a coloring book, crayons,
and a scratch art set

Esther got a mosaic set

The girls also each received a plastic box full of clothes
for their new dolls... pajamas, outfits, hat/scarf/shawl, shoes.
They also got stickers so they could decorate their boxes!



The dolls are ready for bed

Esther made this headband for Cassie

Tyler and Cassie got Calvin sweatshirts.
Go Knights!

Renee showing off her MSU pom-pom gloves

 

Tonight the girls tried out their Turbie Towels.

Silly face picture!

Peter's 7th Birthday Party

Tonight we celebrated Peter's birthday.  It's so hard to believe that he'll be 7 next Saturday! 

It is so fun to watch him open gifts, because he has the best reactions!  He is so genuinely excited about everything, and always gives the gift giver a hug.

Quick... you get one guess as to the theme of the party...

Peter is really into Star Wars lately!

Peter received a BeyBlade set and a
new outfit for Thomas (his Build-a-Bear Tiger)
from Grandpa and Grandma K. 
Grandpa had Ty and Cassie on his lap,
so we didn't make him get in the picture.

Uncle Nick gave him a Transformer and a
Jimmie Johnson coloring book
(Jimmie is Peter's favorite NASCAR driver,
the one he met this summer).

Angry Birds Star Wars game from the McCaul family!

HedBanz game from the Haverdinks

Grandma K's awesome Star Wars cake!
She can always come up with something,
no matter what theme the kids give her.

Our handsome birthday boy!

Our Family Christmas

Tonight we celebrated an early Christmas with just the 5 of us.  We ate our dinner and drank our sparkling juice at record speed and then got to opening gifts.  The kids seemed very excited with their presents and we had fun playing for a while before bed.

Stompeez for Everyone!

Roller Blades for Peter and Miriam
so they can try to keep up with Esther!



Tri-Ominos and the updated version of Life



Our Generation dolls for the girls

Beer sampler and a new waffle maker for Daddy
to make sure we keep getting our Saturday morning waffles!

With Daddy's help, the kids filled my stocking with
an assortment of candy, treats, and a Starbucks gift card!

The kids got a couple little games
and a Pez dispenser in their stockings.

The girls also got Turbie Twist towels
in their stockings.  Here is Casey
demonstrating how to use one!

Trying out the blades!



The girls with Ashley-Rose and Audrey-Ann

The boys got the new Lego creation put together
(the one on the left is the new one)

Next up this weekend... Peter's birthday party and Christmas with Casey's family!