More birthday stuff!

Since Sammy was having his birthday party on Saturday at...yep...you guessed it: Chuck E Cheese's (again)--I didn't do a cake or anything on his actual birthday. I know that may sound mean, but I had spent the night before making 26 cupcakes to take to his class. And I was also making the birthday cake for the party. And I was planning to make a cake for Helene's birthday the following day.
And he doesn't even like cake.

Anyway. I digress.

So, Helene helped me make her cake on Wednesday.
OK--she just licked the beaters, but that's really the best part anyway.

Group pic. So love it.

And yes, that's Christmas wrapping paper...cause that's just how I roll.
(and she's only 2 so I can get away with it!)

My adorable girls

She couldn't have been more excited about her Cinderella and Little Mermaid figurines. I wish I could have captured her face the moment she opened them, but you get the excitement.

Poor Hannah was so jealous...and I really don't blame her. It's hard to sit by and watch everyone else get presents while she has to wait until July for her birthday.

Luckily, Helene was willing to share.

Sweet girl.

CAKE!! AND PRESENTS!!!

I don't have a ton of pictures from Sammy's party. It's just too crazy to take any while keeping track of kids, ordering and distributing food, giving out tokens, changing Helene's diaper, and trying to socialize.
I did manage to get a few.

Air Hockey!
(Mom's favorite!)

Stephanie and Riley and Danielle and Michael

Sammy's cousin, Jon, was in town visiting from Las Vegas--and Sammy was so excited to see him. CEC has this new thing for the birthday kids to do called the Ticket Blaster. Basically, they put you in this capsule and they start a wind tunnel and release a ton of tickets. Sammy really didn't want to do it (and I didn't blame him), so we enlisted Jon to do it for him.
It was pretty funny.

Chuck E. has a really really big head.

Cake!

My mom was so sweet to make Helene her very own birthday cake so she didn't feel left out.

Two forks...my kind of girl.

This is so Helene. She is my Prim and Proper girl.
Always saying "please" and "thank you"....and always wanting a napkin. She hates messy hands.

Presents!

Happy Birthday Sammy and Helene!

Summer 2010 Revisited

So, remember this post about our fun field trips this summer? And this post with the summer recap and the lament about losing yet another memory card?

Guess what my parents found at their house? My old camera!!

With lots of summer pictures on it!
Yay!
I'm guessing in my haste to get out of town for a little Vegas getaway (sans kids) after my niece's wedding, I must have left the camera at the reception, and my parents picked it up and took it home.

Anyway--fun to see pictures from hanging out with Valerie this summer and pictures from summer back in SoCal. The timing of finding these pictures is ironic, as always.

Wagon ride at Wheeler Farm

We miss you guys!

Self portrait attempt of me and Helene

Seriously.
How can anyone eat these adorable piglets??

Kids were obsessed with this river

And throwing big rocks into it

We came back in town just in time for Hannah's last week of school. Here is her last day.

She missed her teachers so much!

Hannah and her friend Jasmine who is in her class again this year.

We made a trip out to Underwood Farms with Krista and the gang.

Noticing the abandoned diet coke

But can't quite reach it

and not happy about it.

I so love this picture!

And I had to include this picture because it's almost the same as this one of Hannah
over 3 years ago
uhhh....since when do my kids like sand?!

She looks so little.

And that's the end of my revisit of Summer 2010.
Good times.