Tuesday, August 30, 2011

August a BIG party month!


Well it's been a while since I last wrote so I thought I should catch up! 
The beginning of August brought Brooklyn and  Eli's birthdays! We went to Doug and Melissa the first weekend to celebrate Brooklyn's birthday and also Natalie's belated birthday since they were in the process of moving during Natalie's. The girls had cute cakes and I think they had a lot of fun! We also were able to meet Joey's girlfriend Hannah. A sweet young lady who has actually been a friend of the family for a while but whom we just recently got back into contact with. She is so creative and made some beautiful pictures to hang on the girl's walls.




We then had Eli's 1st birthday at our house the following Monday. Grandma made the cutest little cupcakes inside mini ice cream cones! I will post pictures as soon as I get my hands on some. We had Eli's favorite, spaghetti for supper and everyone joined us.






Then just this weekend was Joey surprise birthday party at El Chico!  And thanks to Hannah it was a huge success. She thought of it all! Like I said such a creative young lady! He had family and friends from church. James and I really enjoyed seeing some friends from our old church who we hadn't seen it was seems like forever! All in all it's been a big birthday bash this month!

In between Eli's and Joey's birthdays we all loaded up and headed to Sarah's apartment to see Wesley for the weekend! He was able to leave the base so we made a little family reunion out of it. There were a lot of people crammed into a small space. We stayed up late every night playing the XBOX mostly the guys played baseball but we also tried to compete in a dancing game, it was lots of fun and even more laughs.

 The nights were rough because Eli didn't sleep well between a weird place and teething. Poor Sarah had a rough night too because we kicked her out of her bed the first night then the second night we switched rooms and Olivia was kicked out of her bed. So not much sleep for the babies nor their parents.

 Grandma and Papaw stayed at the motel as well as Jessica and Chris. So we had access to an indoor pool which we swam in for a couple hours! The boys had a blast! Justice almost drowned because he kept jumping into his little round floatie but missed it one time....very scary. James was out of the  hot tub and right there with him in less than three seconds it seamed, while Justice was able to keep his head above water. We were really proud of him for that. He had been practicing swimming almost the whole time before all that so that was a blessing! Papaw was also out of the hot tub super fast which I think hurt his body a little especially mixed with all the emotions! I think though this Momma was the most shaken. I hate water to begin with.....just saying.

Sunday we all attended Tim and Sarah's church and enjoyed worship together with Tim as the lead and then listened to a good sermon. The kids got to play in water again only this time it was in the form of a huge home made slip and slide and several other sprinklers. :) After church we all went to lunch together. Then finished packing and got home about supper time.

August has been a blast with all the family and friends we have been surrounded with!