My Cousins Had a Birthday

Riley's twin cousins - Patricia and Kyrstina (and yes I can tell them apart and I'm proud of it too) - had their 5th birthday about a week ago and while it was a very HOT HOT HOT and humid day it was lots of fun!

Here are the birthday girls - all excited, because not only are they having a party, but it really is their birthday today (ok really a week and a half ago, but when I took the pic it was really their birthday)

Here are the kids playing outside - for what seemed like hours upon end - but it really wasn't.

Here's the twins bro Christopher - giving us his best look, confused :)

Here are the birthday girls, "finnnallllly" (quote by Cayman) blowing out their candles so we could all eat cake. The kids were a little antsy and for good reason if you check out the pics below.

And what would a party be without cake?.....so I had to get a pic of each kid and they were supposed to be taking a really huge bite (I'm the aunt, I can get away with things like that)

Patricia

Krystina

Christopher

Cayman

Riley - she really has a juice box not a big bite of cake because I'm her mom

and I didn't want to clean up that big bite of cake,

but can you see how hot she was Missouri weather at it's finest

Wordless Wednesday

I had three birthday parties in 18 hours and I'm excited!
Too bad none of the presents were mine.

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Wordless Wednesday

My sis, Sarah, and my sweet baby big girl, Riley, blowing out birthday candles (Riley's only helping because she wants to, her birthday isn't really until November)

How did this icing end up all over my toe - well its Wordless Wednesday so I can't tell you but you can check out more back there or here.

A Full Day of Birthday Parties!

What a FULL day we had on Saturday!! We started the day off with a Birthday Party for my friend Gina's little boy Evan. He turned 4 and was SOOOO excited. She claims he didn't have any sugar before the party, but I'm not sure you could tell.

Riley didn't know many of the other kids there, but that never stops her. She's usually pretty good at making herself at home and joining in on the fun. She loved the blowers and Gina was the smartest mom ever and got the ones that didn't make noise (yeah Gina!). It didn't take the kids long to figure out that they could get each other with them though. Here is Riley and Evan's attempt at that.
Evan (as well as the rest of the kids) were pretty excited about the Diego cake too - I always think it is funny to see how picky kids are about which piece of cake they want. Then they never eat even half of what you give them.........ahh birthday parties!

I don't really remember what this face was about - but he wasn't happy that's for sure. It was just too cute to leave off though.
After a quick lunch with our friends John & Jenelle & Colter and a mad dash thru Wal-mart it was naptime in the car, followed by a SURPRISE birthday party for my Grandma who just turned 80. I can't believe that we actually pulled it off and no-one spilled the beans, everyone did so good.

Here she is walking in the door, how thankful we are that we didn't give her a heart attack!
It was awesome that nearly all of our family was there - some from like 8 hrs away - some that I hadn't seen in years - some that well had never met our spouses and little ones. I think there was like 79 people or so there so definitely a crowd. We ate a lot, took a lot of pictures and had a good time. Here are some random shots from the night.

My favorite quote of the night was from Grandma herself. Mom saw an idea somewhere where you come up with 80 reasons why you love someone and decorate it all pretty for their birthday. We did just that and when Mom was explaining it to Grandma she said "I bet you couldn't come up with 80 could you?" She's so silly, we had more :)