Friend Birthday Party!

So, apparently we have 5 year olds now. I'm not sure how it happened. But it did. AND IT IS AWESOME. I love five. It is a great age.

The kids had a gymnastics party for their friends the Sunday before their birthday. We had the party at the gym where both kids went to camp last summer and where Colin takes classes every week. It was such an easy party from a parent perspective. All I did was fill in the invitation that they gave me, take drinks, cake, and chips, and pay. PERFECT.

Colin and Gillian and C's bff J.D.
 
 

The gym workers RAN those kids for an HOUR. It was fantastic.
 
 
 

The cake I made! I am so dang proud of that Minion.
 

Uncle Willis and Aunt Leah get Married!

In August we were pretty excited to join Uncle Willis and (Real) Aunt Leah for their rooftop, city wedding!



Nice venue, right? And the weather was beautiful. As was the ceremony. We got some fun pictures before the ceremony (so did the photographer, he liked the kiddos).





And this is the only picture of me that we got the entire day. Isn't that always the way??


Oh wait, and this one.







And then Milo arrived. He was the wedding attendant. Best Man AND Maid of Honor, I think.





Aunt Leah and her lovely mom got flowers for the kiddos. They really enjoyed them.




Notice G's fancy hair-do. I asked her what she wanted to do with her hair. She sighed at me and said, "I have to have a ballet bun. I'm going somewhere fancy."





Finally it was ceremony time!






The bride!





Red socks. Of course.













Colin LOVED the sparkling cider that he and sissy had.








A lovely evening for a lovely couple! We wish them all the best!

Independence Day Pre-Party

The weekend before the Fourth of July, Rachel and Matt invited us to a party at the country club with Rachel's family. We figured, why not? It would be nice to let the kids watch some fireworks without the whole, long Brockway 4th before hand! Turns out, this was a GREAT party! The kids (and Daddy and me) had a great time! LOTS of kids' activities (bounce houses, face painting, sand traps as sandboxes, you know) and yummy food and FIREWORKS!

Taking in ALL the fun...


Oh yeah! That's FUN!


Colin actually won this particular activity!




I'm not sure how the groundskeepers feel about this annual party...


The kids easily stayed up for the 9:45 fireworks. They were very excited to see fireworks for the first time. I think Colin was afraid that they were going to be REALLY loud though, so he started covering his ears about 10 minutes before the set off the first firework! He kept them covered almost the whole time though, but at the end he dropped his hands and just enjoyed them. I was hearing lots of WOAHs and LOOK AT THAT! from both kids. They both gave fireworks two THUMBS UP. Daddy and I did NOT give two thumbs up to the 7:00 am wake up time that both kids observed the next morning....