Saturday, November 13, 2010
Birthday Extravaganza 2010
Well it's officially been a full year since my last entry but I have had so many requests to keep posting, I'm gonna try and keep it going or should I say get it going again. This weekend has brought us around another full year and finds our kids aging as follows: Logan age 10, Garrett age 8, & Addi age 5. This has been a big fall with lots of changes as Addi started all day pre-k and we became the parents of all school-agers. Slowly but surely our home is losing it's babyproofing in exchange for video games, MP3s, and sports equipment. It's bittersweet to lose my babies but oh so fun to be able to travel easily and buy birthday gifts like college football tickets instead of mega blocks. I have to say though that children only get pricier as they age. I thought daycare and diapers were bad, but oh here comes clothes (designer), cars, & college!
The birthday extravaganza kicked off last weekend with our trip to Stillwater to watch the Cowboys beat Baylor. Mark's parents came and entertained Addi with her own shopping day and then met us at our favorite OKC landmark restaurant, Cattleman's. Our best friends and their 3 boys spent the day with us, a great time was had by all. Our week was busy as usual and out of rhythm for us as I rearragned my work schedule to accommodate the kids parties this weekend. I made 48 cupcakes for Logan and Addi to take to school on Friday. Then I spent all day Friday cleaning and baking Logan's pirate cookie cake. I chickened out and ordered Addi's Princess Belle cake so I didn't have to stress out about getting it done during Logan's sleepover party. Friday evening we hosted 5 fun-loving male youths to celebrate Logan's 10th birthday. We ate, had Wii tournaments, ate, played GI Joe, ate, had Nerf gun wars, and watched movies and cackled till well past midnight. I was beat!
And as if that wasn't enough, I decided to host Addi's party a mere 3 hrs after the boys headed out. So we quickly transformed our man cave to a princess castle and welcomed our 4 beautiful princess guests. We had cupcakes, decorated crowns, played dressup, and had a delightful relatively quiet afternoon. AND THEN we had my parents and sisters and family here for a family party. WOW! What a weekend so far. We are gonna need tomorrow to recover for sure. One more full week of school and then a short week as we head to Sallisaw for Thanksgiving. I'm gonna post this before I lose it and then try to add some photos. I am a little rusty and as you can see my background was so old it got deleted automatically!
The birthday extravaganza kicked off last weekend with our trip to Stillwater to watch the Cowboys beat Baylor. Mark's parents came and entertained Addi with her own shopping day and then met us at our favorite OKC landmark restaurant, Cattleman's. Our best friends and their 3 boys spent the day with us, a great time was had by all. Our week was busy as usual and out of rhythm for us as I rearragned my work schedule to accommodate the kids parties this weekend. I made 48 cupcakes for Logan and Addi to take to school on Friday. Then I spent all day Friday cleaning and baking Logan's pirate cookie cake. I chickened out and ordered Addi's Princess Belle cake so I didn't have to stress out about getting it done during Logan's sleepover party. Friday evening we hosted 5 fun-loving male youths to celebrate Logan's 10th birthday. We ate, had Wii tournaments, ate, played GI Joe, ate, had Nerf gun wars, and watched movies and cackled till well past midnight. I was beat!
And as if that wasn't enough, I decided to host Addi's party a mere 3 hrs after the boys headed out. So we quickly transformed our man cave to a princess castle and welcomed our 4 beautiful princess guests. We had cupcakes, decorated crowns, played dressup, and had a delightful relatively quiet afternoon. AND THEN we had my parents and sisters and family here for a family party. WOW! What a weekend so far. We are gonna need tomorrow to recover for sure. One more full week of school and then a short week as we head to Sallisaw for Thanksgiving. I'm gonna post this before I lose it and then try to add some photos. I am a little rusty and as you can see my background was so old it got deleted automatically!
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