Sunday, March 08, 2009

Felix is 4...and has been for a month!

Cute Birthday Boy


Rex at Gymkhana




"Saturday is a special day...we clean the house..."





Felix at Gymkhana



Cruising...Felix has good reason to scream with Rex behind the wheel


Hoping the ball will make it down the alley


Felix, Rex and cousins Drew and Matt playing Dinosaur


50 degrees and Felix was insistent upon playing in the sprinkler



Grandpa Richardson popped in for a visit


Felix being Felix


Happy Birthday to You!


Felix and Rex aboard the train


Rob giving the boys a ride



Felix and co. ready for some cake



Hi, this is really Scotty for a change and not just Margie writing on my / our behalf.

It's not on account of any negligence on Margie's part we've taken so long to post pictures from Felix's birthday; rather, it owes to some technical difficulties we've been having.

Specifically, our home PC, Margie's computer, gave up the ghost recently. Margie and the boys came home from Church to a smelly house one Sunday before I was done and called a neighbor to investigate what they thought might be a gas leak. Turned out it was not a gas leak but just the smell of a frying PC motherboard.

Anyhow, after a nerd date last week where I had friend who is a Google employee come over and check things out, we're still down a computer but have recovered the files from the PC and gotten the camera reconnected, etc. Until we sort out the question of whether to repair or replace, we're having fun fighting over my slowly dying laptop from business school, which is almost 5 years old now (but still younger than our PC). As Margie would say, they're both about 150+ years old in people years.

To get to the interesting news, Felix had a very fun train-themed 4th birthday party that was a raging success. Margie went all out, decorating the house, making a train cake, and planning train-themed games: pin the smokestack on the engine, a bean bag toss through the componentry of a train, and a variation of Duck, Duck, Goose called Chug, Chug, Woo-Woo.

The highlight for most of the attendees, however, was riding in the wheelbarrow that Felix and Rex's buddy Rob had converted into a train to give all the partygoers rides.

Enjoy the photos of the party, recent visitors and other happenings!

2 comments:

Izzy said...

Looks like a GREAT month Scott and Margie!!! Happy Birthday Felix! I remember our train dayz!!! They were THE best! Love you guys...I hope the Johnson family doesn't mind intruders.

Love you,

Steve, Ismari, Isaac, and Maile

p.s. We are glad you got to hang out with April and Grandpa!

Valerie said...

Felix and Rex look exactly the same to me. If it weren't for the captions I would have no idea which was which! The train party looks like a fun time. The train/wheelbarrow looks VERY fun! It is good to have you guys back :)