birthday playdate

Best Birthday Party EVER!  Logan's birthday party this year was just a glorified playdate and it was fantastic.  I bought them each a little nerf gun and they spent several hours shooting nerf bullets, playing outside, climbing the tree, and going down the zipline with a break or two for snacks and cake.  It was an easy, relaxing and fun time with his favorites.

NYE

We had our annual New Year's Eve bash and/or eating food and hanging out with the kids at the Cardozas' house. The crowd was a bit smaller than usual this year but still just as fun! In honor of the traditional NYE countdown I am counting down the top 10 fun/funny/silly/etc events of the night.

10) Getting dressed up to go nowhere. Who says you can't be cute even if only 5 other people see you!

9) Spending a whole night with best friends!

8) Watching William and Connor jump non stop on a little trampoline and roar at the top of their lungs.

7) Hanging out with the Garretts even though they ditched us for another party ;)

6) Packing 8 adults and 5 kids around 1 table.

5) Watching Matt try to stay awake until midnight.

4) Watching any of us attempt to do charades with random items Zach thought up like teeney weeney yellow polka dot bikini, pop rocks, carpet burn and Mr. T!

3) Rocking out to Backstreet Boys!! My junior high heart burst when I saw them on TV :)

2) Drinking yummy yummy yummy 'blue drinks' a.k.a cocunut rum, pineapple juice and blue curacao

1) Going to up to Isabella's room at 1:15 am to get your sleeping boy only to find out they are both wide awake and emptying the closet all over the place!

Happy 2011 everyone.

christmas with the cardozas

Last night we went over to Matt and Leslie's to eat dinner and exchange our Christmas presents. Leslie had found these super cute sugar cookies decorated like melting snowmen so she had made some for the kids to decorate. They turned out super cute. Well except for Connor's because he kept eating the top of the marshmallow head and it started looking a little more like a snowman autopsy :)

After dinner Matt started trying to 'get' William as he ran past him which turned into Matt having to 'get' all 4 kids which turned into a run around scream, roar, tickle fight. Fun times!!

Connor opted out of the game to sit in a chair and pose. Then figured while he was on the chair he might as well start jumping off of it :)

Then as we were about to open presents these two little love birds began posing, and posing, and posing. They informed us later in the evening that they were going to be married. Though we all thought they were a bit young there weren't any real arguments on the matter. Truth is we're all holding out for that exact announcement in about 20 years!

We attempted to get a picture of the 4 of them. Technically they all made it in the picture!

Then it was present time! The boys gave William and Isabella the movies Cars and Beauty and the Beast. They gave the boys a Toy Story 3 game (we LOVE games!) and a remote control fire truck. The guys got their usuals, coffee and scones for Matt and Nutella for Zach. Leslie gave me a little teapot, tea and Sugar in the Raw packets (my fav!) and I gave her Lineage of Grace (one of my favorite books and we have similar tastes so I know she'll love it) and a little chalkboard I made from a plate and chalkboard paint. Much excitement in all the openings!