Happy 2nd birthday, Zaphira!

A LONG overdue update...Zaphira Garnet is 2 years old! We had a family fun day. She awoke to a bunch of balloons in her favorite color, and had a blast with them. We went to her favorite playground, and had yummy ice cream cake.

 She's telling me, "No cheese!" I guess she was sick of having her picture taken.

Happy birthday, Zanthias!

Getting out of the car...he has no idea what we are doing!
Playing with Ezra
Bowling

This jeep ride was crazy! It even did a wheelie (which was a bit scary)
More horsie!
Zaphira did NOT like the moving rides.
Crazy jockey
Racing cars with Ezra
I don't think you're supposed to be up there...
Apple cake and birthday ring (only half of the cake would fit in my travel pan!)
Blowing out the candles
Book and blocks
He makes weird cheese faces.

Zanthias is 3 today, and very excited about that. He loves to say, "Happy birthday!" We made an apple cake this morning. Then, Drew took off the afternoon and we went to Chuck E. Cheese (for the first time!) His friend Ezra also came (with his mom and little brother) They had lots of fun running from game to game, eating pizza and having cake. His friend got him a great pirate book.

We got him a copy of his favorite book, "Harry and Horsie" (I also bought the sequel "Cookiebot" but it hasn't arrived yet!) and some Tegu magnetic blocks. He loved them.

As long as the rain holds off, we are planning a trip to the playground or a walk around the neighborhood later.

Happy birthday to my crazy, amazing son. He's around 37 lbs and 37" right now. His vocabulary has increased so much, and he loves to talk and tell stories. His favorite things to do right now are read books, ride his "broom broom" (his balance bike), go to the playground, and play with cars or his baby doll. His favorite shows right now are "The Backyardigans" and "Blue's Clues". He is very kind to his sister, and working on this whole sharing thing. He loves animals and motorcycles. He's very sensitive and shows his feelings completely, good or bad. It's been an amazing year.

Happy birthday, Zaphira!

We had a birthday party for Zaphira here for all our friends. It was a fiesta theme, and we made most of the decorations (and her dress!) It was so much fun. Happy first birthday to my sweet little girl.

Birthday party teaser

I'm only uploading a few pics here, because in the next couple of weeks, I hope to mail cds out to everyone so you can see all the pics. There are a lot of great ones! We had a wonderful time, and hope everyone else did as well. We made it home with no issue, and the kids are happy to be home and relaxing with all their new toys.

Happy birthday, Zanthias!

I meant to post on his birthday, but we were too busy having fun!

1st birthday party pics

He hadn't napped all day and was exhausted.
The goody bags!

My pinata is broken!
Pulling open the pinata
Cleaning off the cake
Not much made it in his mouth, he was more interested in the texture.

Blowing out the candle
The crappy, uneven, melty frosting (but still tasty!) cake
He wouldn't hold still long enough for the whole tattoo to stick.
This was after a fall =(


Don't snap my eyepatch!




He was trying to escape his party to go the party nearby where older kids were playing tug of war and throwing balls.
Our awesome pinata.


Birthday pirate!

Finally! The photographer promised them within the week-we just got them yesterday! Be prepared for a deluge of pictures. I won't post many pics of the other kids (we have over 200 pics!) so it won't be too bad. Sorry they're in complete reverse order.