January Birthday Weekend

January is one of the months with many birthdays around the Paulsen clan.  The 15th is Maria's, the 18th is Dale's, and the 21st is Andrew's.  This year, we all got together the weekend after the birthdays to celebrate together.

Since Mimi and Pappy had visited New York (and Connecticut), they brought tshirts back for the boys (and Bekah got a little white fuzzy dog in a purse and Baby got a 6mo onsie that says "I ♥ Dad...New York").

Elijah and James in their NY shirts

Elijah, Nathan, & James in their NY shirts...
Nathan is fist-pumping because they were yelling
"BATMAN!" instead of "cheese".  

And they all wrestled with Pappy after breakfast cinnamon rolls.

Tim, Daniel, and Andrew went on a mountain bike ride, so the rest of us took the kids and doggies down to "feed the duck-ducks" (aka seagulls) at the bay, and then went to the school to play on the playground.

Bekah with her Mimi (and Elijah)!

Nathan takes this seriously (okay, and he was
on some Benadryl).  

We must have looked hilarious on our walk.  An almost 5-year-old in an adult helmet on a bike (until he walked and Pappy dragged the bike), 2 strollers, and 5 dogs!

Kensi, Cole, & Samson waiting patiently for Schatzi (and Pappy,
who had the ball and frisbee).  

Doggies all going crazy!

Kensi jumping for the frisbee in Pappy's hand.

Cole's usually business...barking at Schatzi when she has the
frisbee.  

For lunch after the brothers got back from their bike ride, we went to Dockside in Morro Bay.  Out back of the restaurant, they were unloading crab from a ship, so we took the kids outside to watch.

Nathan, Maria, and James watching the crab be put in buckets
onto the scale to be weighed.

Bekah got some birthday cake!

Dale's little sister Aunt Lynn joined us for dinner and we had (Andrew's choice) tamale pie, followed by lemon meringue pie I made for Dale and grasshopper pie Emily had made for Andrew.  YUM!