Ringing in 2012 in style with 2 parties!!

We went to a sweet little Diva's birthday party for the first part of our New Years Eve celebration. 

She got lots of great gifts and we even rang in the new year, really early, with a toast to the birthday girl!

We then headed over to my friend's Mom's house to party karaoke style...

Everyone got into the action and had a turn at singing....

and there was even dancing to several songs

It was a great time that was had by all who was there.  We all had so much fun, food, and the boys were excellent...although if memory serves me correctly my lil man didn't make it to midnight.

Cheers and a Happy Blessed New Year from our family(ies) to yours!



Birthday Pictures for Lil D 2011

First off...

We had a wonderful time with Lil D on his actual birthday June 10 and then for his birthday party on June 12!!

We were in Gaitlinburg, TN when our baby boy had his birthday.  We asked him were he wanted to eat and he got a twinkle in his eye and said with his elfish grin "The HardRock Cafe"!  We took him, of course, along with the waterpark; playtime @ FunFort and much more!!

The day after we got home it was party time with family and friends :).  It was a beautiful, hot day on Sunday but we were blessed to be able to have it at a park where we could stick our feet in (if we wanted too) or go into some woods to cool off. 

Then the boys got to have another surprise!!!  A little spend-the-night with their Grandma, Aunt, Uncle, & cousin while Mommy & Daddy visited Papah/Mamah for Papah's birthday and Father's day.  It was a good but very long day!

My Oldest "baby's" Birthday Party

Yep, it is true...we celebrated the birth of David yesterday with a little party of friends and family at Chuck E Cheese's.  And YES, we are SO thankful to those friends & family for braving the dreaded fun place so that our eldest would be soo very happy, and he was :)

He wanted to have his party at the YMCA like his little "Brudder" but his Mommy failed to ask them in time so he had to come up with a "plan B" real quick like.  His theme...Mario of course!  If anyone knows my boy than they know that he has brought Mario back!  He L-O-V-E-S Mario games and can humm most of the tunes on the games!

Happily there were about 6 families that came to say happy birthday & brave the madness that is C.E.C. and that made David oh so happy!!

Again thanks for coming out & joining us for David's 11th birthday!!  Happy Birthday DAVID!!!!
You can read about the day of David's birth here and here .

1st Weekend of October (a month full of fun!)

We had a great; fun-filled; weekend this past weekend.

Friday night we went to Gardendale Elementary annual fall festival.

This is a great way for a school to make a few extra bucks & for the kids to have a blast.

My Mom teaches at the school & we have gone to have fun for the past 3 years.

We've had an awesome time & are thankful that we got to go to it this year again.

On Saturday we went to Homestead Hollow.  We got a late start going & only had about 2 hours to look around & enjoy ourselves.  Unfortunately, I forgot my camera so I have no pictures.  The boys did get to ride the horse wagon (with the driver in fact) & got 5 minutes in the bouncy house too.  They wanted to do the Euro bounce thing again, but I didn't bring enough moolah .:sigh:. next time maybe.?.

Saturday night we went to a sweet "gurl's" 12th birthday party.  It was a 1960's-70's party &

they had face painting....

groovy dancing.....

tye dying....

& of course ...........

food

&

cake!

On Sunday we went to morning church & heard a wonderful, reinforcing (to me) sermon about what we talked about in Sunday School & then headed to McDonald's & the park for some more food & fun.  After Joey got home we returned back to church to honor a very special woman's birthday within our church & had a time of fellowship, soup/chili, & devotion.  What a great way to end a most perfect weekend :-)   

You Capture- PLAY

Well today I have decided to participate in Beth's blog carnival called You Capture, you can go visit Beth's latest You Capture-Play and join in all the capturing fun!

 YAY!! This is what a preschool teacher of 1,2, & 3 year old's live for.  But alas, I am not going to show you a picture of my class playing, but my son @ a birthday party.  It was at a local splash pad & during the day so it is a S.O.O.C. shot(s).

Sorry, they are no longer in the camera & my puter does not keep the settings :(

But I did take many like these so I could choose this for this challenge last Sat.

It defiantly was SO much fun to do!

I know I had the camera lens part on manual, but other than that I am not sure maybe 2.? lol!  my bad, next time I'll pay more attention.

Please go over to Beth's blog & join in the capturing fun!

Lil D's birthday party

So Lil D turned 5 on June 10th and I made him, his class, and teachers some strawberry cupcakes for him to share.  We really didn't celebrate his birthday that day except to tell him "Happy Birthday"

So, before you get onto me for not celebrating my little man's acutal day of birth, he had an awesome day the next day.  We celebrated with family and friends at our local YMCA with a Madness Party.  We got the moonwalk, basketballs & court, and the pool.  I think all that came had a blast.

Check out these photos of our Lil D's friends and family and all the fun we had...

Cake Made by Naomi, sadly heat melted it some :(

The Kids eating & adults socializing :)

More of kiddos eating & adults socializing- Who said I don't know how to throw a social shendig? LOL

I'm not sure what is going on here....

My Step-Mom, Dad, M-I-L, S-I-L, & Hubby talkin

The Moonwalk

The basketball court

Singing "Happy Birthday" & candle blowing

Present Time :)

Thank you to all who came to celebrate Lil D's 5th birthday.  We hope you and your kids enjoyed it as much as we did!

Birthday Parties

Well the kids have not been invited to alot of birthday parties this year, but we have been to some. 

We went to my sweet niece's birthday party last month at her home.  Since she lives out of state we make a weekend out of it.  We had such a good time with my sister & her family.  It is always a blast & the boys always love it there.  Here are some pics of her party:

My sister, Bro in Luv & niece

The Kids....

we took this one for a Mother's/Father's Day present

We also went to a friend of Lil D's birthday party last weekend.  It was at a bowling ally and the boys had such a good time.  Us parents even got to bowl.  We also had a blast there.  See!!

Thanks for inviting us!  We had an AWESOME time!!

Mother's Day is next...I hope! ;)