Luke's 7th Birthday

Today was Luke's 7th Birthday and he wanted to go to Sea World with his cousins.  Luke woke me up at 6:45am because he was so excited that he turned 7 today.  Staci and her family came over and we all drove to Sea World. 
We had a fun day and Sea World even had a Snow area where the kids could play in the snow and go sledding.  The problem is that my kids were wearing flip flops and I was not anticipating have them play with snow.  My kids loved the snow until their hands were frozen and their pants were wet.  Then I remembered why I am not a fan of snow.  Lincoln wanted to play in the snow so bad but didn't understand why it was so cold.  He kept thinking it was like sand but was freezing sand.

For birthdays at Sea World they give out free coupons to feed an animal. Luke decided to feed the sea lions and we got 8 containers of fish and my kids went crazy to feed the sea lions.  Sadly, Lincoln was so scared by these LOUD sea lions. I had to go back to the sitting area while Aunt Staci helped pass out the fish.  My kids loved having their hands stink like fish.

We randomly got selected by a nice employee at Sea World to take a personal tour and pet sharks in the back room.  Wow...that sounds suspicious but it was actually legit.  This nice lady picked Staci and Me and our 6 kids because she felt inspired to pick us.....plus, she is Mormon!  We got to go behind the scenes and pet small sharks and Who fish.....who fish are creepy and like to suck dead skin cells off of you.  It was so gross to me but my fingers felt so smooth and youthful.  Here is a picture of Peyton with her hand in one of the shark tanks.

Lincoln was all ready to go on the Manta roller coaster but the employees said he wasn't tall enough.  As you can see Lincoln fits in the seat and was even patiently eating fruit snacks.  What a good baby.  Also if you notice that Lincoln is wearing shoes.....this is a huge step for him.  Lincoln normally only likes crocs shoes but they got left somewhere accidently.  So for the last few days he has refused to wear shoes.  Obviously people in society can't go around not wearing shoes so we had to intervene and make him wear shoes.  Mother of the Year goes to me for making my son wear shoes like a normal kid. *high fives self*

We all then went to Red Robin for Luke's birthday dinner!