Dave's 37th birthday party

We celebrated on the Saturday before his birthday (4-20) because he had travel plans the week following, which was his actual birthday (4-22).  The kids enjoyed helping me make the cake, decorate with blue/yellow balloons (which were Calvin's last-minute idea to buy when we made a run to Hy-Vee for cake ingredients).  Dave used a blow-torch to light the candles on the cake.  Yeah, he really did.  Violet scooped the ice cream, and we took a family pic, which turned out great! We gave him a yellow shirt and some kit kat bars.  The card we got him sang "happy birthday to you!" and quickly became Vanessa's favorite toy.

the LaMarche six!

I have no clue what was so funny but Violet was giggling about something

Had to share this perplexed photo of Vanessa.