Tylar's 12th!!

Celebrating Tylar's 12th Birthday

Stacie & Tylar @ Wasabi for dinner

Tylar LOVES the Japanese Steakhouse, and has become a birthday tradition for dinner - this year, we got to celebrate with more family than we ever could have hoped for!! Martin 'grands and Rosendale 'grands were all with us!

After dinner we all headed back to our place for a little ice cream cake

And sang... Happy Birthday to our Tylar Jo!

Had to take the opportunity to snap a shot of all my kiddos... rare, rare occasion :)

Birthday Events...

The month of March was quite busy in getting ready for Brandon and Karol's wedding, but we made sure to take the time to celebrate our Tylar's birthday just how he wanted. Tylar's birthday started out being able to take the day off of school... I know, I know... not the best choice I could have made as a parent - BUT - we did have quite a few things going on that Wednesday and was nice for him to be at the center of it all!

Our day started off with shopping. Chad, me, Tylar and Nana and Papa all headed to the St. John's Towncenter (a huge local strip mall that has just about everything from a Target to a Marine World shop, and just about every restaurant you can imagine). Tylar had $50 burning a hole in his pocket from Nana and Papa that he was itching to spend. Our first stop was going to be Toys R Us, but he was quickly sidetracked with a little boutique type golf store. THAT WAS IT... Tylar got to take a few practice swings with a set of clubs, and that was exactly what he wanted!! Music to Chad's ear as he will tell you, GOLF is one of the main reasons he was so excited to move to Florida over 10 years ago. While the clubs at the first store were a little out of our price range, we did find a nice junior set at Dicks Sporting goods just 30 minutes later! Tylar has since gone golfing 2 times since he's gotten his clubs, not to mention the many times he's practiced like a driving range out in the open trails by our house. He is definitely hooked!

Next on the agenda was to pick up Grandma Rolayne and Uncle Mike from the airport. We headed to get her at about 1'ish. Once we were able to grab grandma from the airport we knew we had about 2 hours to kill before picking up Uncle Mike... so being lunchtime the three of us headed to Panera Bread for a yummy lunch. The lunch order for the birthday boy, ppj and chips :). We knew we needed to have a light lunch as dinner that night was going to be at the Japanese Steakhouse! Of course, that didn't stop us from heading to Cold Stone Creamery for an ice cream desert (for Tylar only!!). He chose the cotton candy flavored ice cream with gumball filling... SUGAR in a cup! We also stopped in at Michael's to find a picture frame (one of the things on my "to-do list"), and while there Tylar spotted one of his favorite series of books "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" and quickly put one of the books he hadn't yet read on the birthday list. Grandma granted his wish and bought the book for him! Between lunch, desert and a quick stop at Michael's, brought us to the time when we needed to grab Mike... so we did and headed back to the ranch to meet up with the rest of the family, including Papa Ken and Grandma Cindy who had just arrived from GA.

For the Birthday Finale we took the entire family, all grandmas, grandpas, brothers, sister, uncle and a few friends to the Wasabi, a new Japanese Steakhouse by our house. We had so many of us that they had to split us across two tables!! We had a blast, good food, good company - who could ask for more! They even sang happy birthday to Tylar and brought him a special cake and made him wear a chef hat while everyone sang. Was a lot of fun! Once dinner was over we all headed back to our house for ice cream cake and presents. Tylar got a few cool new t-shirts from g-ma Rolayne and a Georgia Bulldogs had and driver cover from g-ma and g-pa Martin.

All in all was a great celebration that lasted all day for our boy! ...and was just the tip of the iceberg for the activities yet to come that week!