They were sleeping soundly when all of a sudden Brooklynn and Jackson were jumping on the bed yelling, "Wake up," Gabriella sat up wiping the tiredness out of her eyes, then smiled knowing why her twins were jumping on them, "You guys are 3 today," she said. They smiled and continued jumping, "Daddy, Daddy wake up," Jackson yelled shaking Troy awake. He groaned and rolled over onto his stomach, "Ugh 5 more minutes."
They all laughed and continued to jump even Gabriella joined in. It took him all of two seconds before he gave up and got up.

"How about you guys go to the kitchen and wait more me and daddy," Gabriella said then gave each of them a kiss on the cheek. Jackson let the way out of the room.

"Why do they have to wake up so early, you'd think they would want to sleep in on their birthday," Troy groaned as he watched his wife put her hair up in a ponytail.

"Because they're excited they've been talking about their new beds for a month."
He looked at her confused, "What new beds?"
Gabriella turned to look at him weird but hen remembered that he's missed almost all the kids' 3rd birthdays, "We have this tradition. On your 3rd birthday we go shopping for big kid beds and their first pair of underwear," Gabriella explained. He just nodded his head, feeling kind stupid that he's never known about his tradition.

"But hey guess what you get to potty train Brooklynn, I tried with Jet but failed miserably, James had to step in," she smiled wrapping her arms around his neck. He smiled and then leaned down to kiss her gently.

"Hello it's my birthday not momma's," they heard from the doorway. They broke apart and turned to see Jackson standing there with her hands on her hips. Troy untangled himself from his wife and ran to the little girl picking her up and throwing her playfully in the air, "Really are you sure you're 3 because I think you're 13," Jackson giggled, "Come on guy's I'm hungry," Gabriella said walking out of the room.

Gabriella stopped off at Bliss' room and saw her standing in her crib waiting for her mommy to come pick her up. Gabriella's heart melted when she saw her baby's toothless smile when she picked her up.

When the girls got downstairs everyone was sitting at the table watching Troy flip pancakes high in the air. Gabriella laughed when she heard Rylan say, "Hey uncle Zeke does that, did you learn it from him Daddy?"

He shook his head no as he starting plating pancakes, "Mommy taught me a long time ago," Gabriella smiled remembering how difficult it was to teach him.

*FLASHBACK*

A 20 year old Gabriella was sitting on the couch in their tiny apartment reading 'A Midsummer's Night Dream' for her college English class when Troy came walking into the living room. He plopped down on the couch next to Gabriella, "Cant you take a break please," he begged pulling on her legs. Gabriella rolled her eyes, "I cant I have to finish this chapter for class I'm already behind because of someone who wanted special attention last night," she said raising her eyebrows.

"Come on you yourself said that you've read it 4 times already so you really don't have to read it again," he pointed out.

She looked back and forth from the book back to her fiancée who had the puppy dog look on his face, "Before I decided what are we gonna so instead and don't say sex."

"Ugh fine," he pouted, "Um how about you teach me how to make pancakes like you promised."
"Do you really want me to stop doing my homework to teach you how to make pancakes," she asked rhetorically. He pretended to think about it then said, "Yep, what kind of husband would be if I didn't make my wife breakfast the morning after we get married," he grabbed the book out of her hand's, threw it on the coffee table then picked her up bridal style and carried her to the kitchen.

"You really want to make them don't you," she said trying to get out of his grasp. He just smiled and nodded, he put her down on the counter, "Just tell me what to do."

He was doing really well, no casualties yet, so really quick Gabriella went to the bathroom and changed into her pajamas. When she came back the kitchen was a mess, paper towels filled the counter tops, egg shells strewn about and several pans out; she looked over at Troy and saw flour in his hair, pancake batter smeared on his face and clothing and the smell of burning food coming from the pan on the stove.

"I leave you alone for two minutes and you wreck the kitchen," she said rushing over to turn the stove off.

"I was going to show you that I could do the next part on my own," he said looking like a child who just got yelled at. Gabriella looked at him sympathetically then gave him a short kiss, "Nice try, here let me help you," she said then took the spatula away from him. He leaned against the counter as he watched Gabriella carefully flip pancakes and then flipped one high in the air.

"Cool I want to do that," he cheered.

"Let's wait until you can make them without burning the apartment down."

He walked over to her, dipped his finger in the pancake batter then smeared it down her face. She turned to him shocked, "Just a little war paint babe," he laughed. She turned back but turned off the stove, grabbed a handful of batter then threw it in his face," Just a little war paint babe," she mocked.

"Oh it's on," he said then grabbed the bag of flour and threw some on her, she looked like a ghost with the white of the flour all over her face. She grabbed the bowl of batter then threw some at him. They ran around the kitchen throwing flour and batter at each other, when they ran out Troy grabbed her by the waist, "you are my favorite food," he said then liked the batter off her face.

*END OF FLASHBACK*

Gabriella walked over to her family and sat down in her normal spot and smiled at the happy little faces. Jackson and Brooklynn scarfed down their food as fast as they could but Gabriella told then that they wouldn't be getting beds until everyone else was done eating and getting ready.

After they all were done eating their food and putting on fresh clothes they started off to the IKEA. The twins were extremely excited they couldn't hold it back, and the other kids were getting annoyed. About a half an hour after they arrived at the store they were still standing at the bed section watching the twins debate with themselves about what one they wanted.

"Ugh can't we just pick one for them," Portland whined.

"No, it's their choice, you all got you turn so just let them pick it out," Gabriella said.

Portland rolled her eyes, "Hey missy drop the attitude," Gabriella scolded. The eight year old just rolled her eyes again then ran to her father. Gabriella was starting to get tired of Portland's new found attitude that seemed to be rearing it's ugly head recently.

"Mommy I wants this one," Jackson said pointing to the small white canopy bed with pink sheets. Okay with her decision Gabriella wrote down the number and turned to Brooklynn who was still trying to decided. He had both hands on his hips thinking about what he wanted. Gabriella walked over to her son and got down on her knees.

"Brookie have you picked out which one you want," she asked, he looked at his mother and tears began to stream out his eyes, "I don't know, I can't pick."

She pulled him in for a hug knowing that Brooklynn is really sensitive and doesn't take stress well. Rylan and Jet came up to them and hugged them as well, creating a group hug.

"I think the racecar bed is really cool," Rylan suggested.

"Yeah I think I's get that one, buts I's don't knows what color," Brooklynn said wiping away his tears. They all looked at each other then they all said, "RED!"

After finding princess underwear for Jackson and Superhero ones for Brooklynn, Troy was loading the van with the boxes that carried the twins beds. Troy watched as Brooklynn went up to Gabriella and gave her a hug and kiss, "Thank you's mommy you's are the bestest."

Troy smiled as she watched the love of his life interact with their children, it was just one more thing that made him love her more.

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