Weekend Full of Celebrating!

Chatty turns 7 today, so in honor of this momentous occasion we celebrated all weekend.

Saturday - ribs for dinner followed by cupcakes (per Chatty's request) and then a visit to Dave and Buster's (think over sized arcade with restaurant and bar) with our favorite neighbors.

Chatty and her buddy JR

Mom and Bia chillin'

Chatty's picture taking skills

Air Hockey Ace

Surfing

Sunday - Cupcakes for Chatty's Sunday school class and then lunch at Oregano's with Nana and Poppa where she received her I-POD Touch from Grandma/Grandpa, Nana/Poppa and Mom/Dad. She is obsessed with it!

Birthday Pizzookie!

The Birthday girl with Nana and Poppa

Monday - School - I took the day off to volunteer in her class and am bringing in a treat.  After school the girls have their well checks at Dr. K's office and then sub sandwiches for dinner (per Chatty).  Afterwards we'll be celebrating with her Peeps birthday cake! 

Opening presents with crazy bed hair!

Bia helping Chatty open presents

Peeps birthday cake (can you tell it's a sunflower?)

The newest 7 year old ready for school

Catch Up Part One - Bia Turns Four

I know I have been MIA for awhile now - life has been super busy.  Lots of work travel - birthdays - trips, etc.  So this is Part I of my blogging catch up - Bia's 4th Birthday. 

Opening presents and cards from friends and family

We met Nana and Poppa for lunch at our favorite place - Oregano's ... it was actually D's birthday so we celebrated his and Bia's birthdays.

 We were all decked out in our U of A gear for the big game that afternoon

Stay tuned ... next up - pictures from our trip to Disneyland!

Haircuts and Bowling

Sorry for being MIA - I know it has been awhile.  I am surprised my Mam-ma hasn't e-mailed me asking for pictures of her great granddaughters!  Yes my grandmother is computer savvy and loves to see pics of the girls on the blog!  We have been super busy.  I took part of this week off to teach Vacation Bible School at our church.  Both girls have been attending and I have been teaching.  When we get home I have been working and trying to entertain them.  Needless to say I am exhausted.  I finally found out last week that I received a new job with our corporate group.  It has been in the works for several months so it was nice to get the official word.  Anyway in between VBS and work we have had haircuts and birthday parties.  Last weekend our good friend Shaun celebrated his birthday at the bowling alley.  His mom (our good friend from college) made the cutest bowling shirts for the kids ...

Chatty sporting her bowling shirt

Getting ready to bowl

Nice form

No spare here ...

Bia started off bowling

And then decided to change the scorecard

And then proceeded to dance

And jump

And I am not sure what?

Can you tell she is a handful???

Good thing they are cute!

As you can see they got haircuts a few weeks ago - nice summer bobs to make my life a little easier.  We hope y'all are doing well!  I promise I will try to get better at my once a week blogging!

Memorial Day Weekend

We hope you are having a great Memorial Day weekend! Don't forget to thank those who have served and and those who are currently serving our country! Thanks to my brother Lee who is currently serving and all of the men in our family who have served! We appreciate all that you do for our country!

Below are some pics of what we have been up to this weekend!

Nan's birthday celebration on Friday night ... we used Chatty's #6 candle

Our friends' brought these back from Hawaii for the girls ... super cute

I made a cake for our neighbor's birthday

Can you tell what the one on the right is???  WII controller ...

The birthday boy and Goggle Girl

Hope you all are enjoying the holiday weekend!

Birthday Party

Below are some pictures from the girls' joint birthday party.  This year we had it at our local train park.  They have a great deal (very reasonably priced) where you have a train car for 1.5 hours and during that time the staff plays outdoor games with the kids, feeds them cake and ice cream, takes them for a ride on the train and for a ride on the carousel.  All of the kids seemed to really enjoy themselves.

Here are a few pictures ... I will try and post some tomorrow of Chatty's actual birthday (since I am a little behind on that as well).

We opted for cupcakes for the party. 

I made grass frosting and put soccer balls on top

Birthday Banner

Chatty playing the parchute game

Bia playing the parachute game

The big kids playing tug o war

Chatty excited after winning tug o war

Time for cupcakes and ice cream

Bia likes green frosting

Chatty on the train with (one of) her favorite boys S

Bia on the train with her favorite boy S

A photo in the conductor's seat

After we arrived home

Bia's 3rd Birthday!!

Bia is officially a three year old today - hard to believe our little baby is now 3!!  We love you sweet little Bia!!!

2 days old

Baptism - 2 Months Old 2007

1 Year Old - 2008

2 Years old - 2009

3rd Birthday Invitation Picture - 2010