Happy 3rd Birthday Austin!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUSTIN

Here are all the kids at the construction party.

And we can't forget Parker.

Look at how cute his cake is.

Singing Happy Birthday!

HAPPY 5th Birthday Giulia

We had such a great time at Giulia's 5th birthday party. They did a carnival theme which included cotton candy, snow cones, hot dogs, this super big water slide, some carnival games, and even a clown.

Here is Luke after he came down on the slide. As afraid of the water as my kids are they were the first ones up the slide.

Love the way Gracie was going down. And from what I heard she spent the night at Giulia's house and the next day she was going down face first, water in the eyes and all.

The kids trying to climb up to the top.

Here is Tootsee the clown with all the kids(or most of them). They were doing a scavenger hunt with the adults. A really cute idea. She handed out prices and made sure all the kids got a price. She was just asking for the kids to run to the adults and find items, sunglasses, wallet, belt, etc. Gracie was fast enough to win on the keys or should I say I had a good throw to her!


Of course the rain didn't hold out for the whole party. We ended up doing the pinata inside. This was the most organized pinata I have ever seen, even with so many kids.

Luke trying to hit the pinata one handed.

After the pinata Tootsee did some face painting and some balloon animals. Here is Giulia, the birthday girl.




Luke and Gracie waited so patiently to get their faces done. Here is Luke with Nemo. And Tootsee made the cutest little Nemo fish out of a balloon to match.

And here is Princess Gracie.

And you can't forget the Princess Crown.

The cake was wonderful and so adorable. Sorry I only got an upside down picture. There is a clown, a Ferris wheel, and Tinkerbell.

Here is Giulia and Gracie as she is opening up our present. Before we left for the party Gracie and Luke both made pictures for Giulia and she loved them.

Gracie and Luke had a blast on the swing set. We stayed after most of the kids left and for quite some time Gracie was inside playing with Giulia and Luke just played on the swing set and a little Fisher Price house. It was too funny.

Here are the kids going down the slide again, after the party was over. We had to borrow swimsuits from Jaime so I didn't feel like making her go and get more for the kids and they were already wet from the rain so they just went for a swim in their clothes.

Another Baseball Game

We are having so much fun going to the games. And this time we actually tailgated before going into the ball park. Save us some money on food and the kids were loving it. We got front row seats thanks to a surprising offer from an old friend. We were right by first base. And the game is always more exciting when you win. It was truly a great game to watch.

Here is Gracie in her cowgirl hat.

Here is Ferrous. The kids were going crazy to be this close to him. One wonderful perk of being in the front row.

Gracie and Luke posing with Ferrous.

Daddy and Gracie and Luke. Notice Gracie's blue tongue, again. And they had a Dippin' Dots guy dressed up in costume and they were handing out tattoos, that is what is on her cheek.

Nothing better than Friday night fireworks.

Put our pool up

We decided to put the pool up even though we had a crazy week. The kids were really enjoying it.

Luke was having such a good time jumping and splashing around.

Gracie and her goofy goggles.

Fun at Daddy's Work

Daddy decided to do an outside event at his store this Saturday to get some more traffic through. After the long drive up(it was race weekend so we had to take a few detours) we made it. It was warm out and the kids just had a blast.

Here is Gracie Hula Hopping. She was so cute doing this and trying so hard.

Luke fell asleep on the way up to the store so this is him after being woken up.

Daddy and the kids making cotton candy.

Luke loving the cotton candy.

Gracie's Kindergarten Graduation

I didn't get great pictures inside the auditorium but the class put on a great show for us. They sang some songs, put on a little skit, and made us cry. Now off to First Grade.

Here is Gracie getting her diploma.

Gracie and Miss O'Donnell

Any reason to have cake, right? We had to celebrate more at home. Left over cake is the best.

Gracie was laughing since we put a candle in it. Just didn't feel right without one.

Our Search for Caterpillars

We went out for a walk and along the way we found some caterpillars. So we had to hurry back home and put together this insect house that we had. Look at how cute Gracie is showing off the insect house.

Really hard to see anything with the white mesh but here are our caterpillars.