Birthday Catch-Up

The past 2 weeks have been so crazy! We celebrated Tiny Dancer's 5th birthday, then the girls' combined birthday parties, then our 7 year wedding anniversary followed by Little Monster's 2nd birthday. Whew! The Baby's birthday should be much easier. :)

Tiny Dancer turned 5 on Monday, June 24th. I was babysitting that day, so when the girls got there, we had an "Tiny Dancer Day." She chose to watch a movie, bake some cookies, play some games and watch another movie. That night, I made homemade pancakes for dinner and we had some family/friends over to celebrate. We put some candles in her pancakes and sang happy birthday to her, and ended the night with some dessert at Chill Out, the girls' favorite ice cream place. She loved being "spoiled" for the day... we let her decide what we did and let her do whatever she wanted (within reason, of course...).

On Saturday, June 29th, we had the girls' birthday party. Tiny Dancer wanted a Tangled theme, where everyone wears pajamas and watches a "drive-in" movie. My mom went overboard and made it pretty exciting. Separate post, with pictures, to come later. The girls' ended up with tons of toys and movies and other goodies and we had a blast with all of our friends. It was such a great time!

Monday, July 1st was our 7 year anniversary. I can't believe we've been married for 7 years! It doesn't seem possible... Tiny Dancer had a softball game that night, but my husband's parents volunteered to watch the kids so we could at least grab a bite to eat alone. We went to Applebee's (because, well, we just didn't have a lot of time and we were far from dressed up!). It was weird, but nice to be alone.

Friday, July 5th was Little Monster's 2nd birthday. We celebrated by going to Raging Rivers. It was me and my 3 kids (yes, I was alone, no, I'm not crazy, yes, it was fine, but no, I'll never do it again!), 2 of my sisters, and a few of our friends, plus all of their kids. This was great because the kids were able to play together, but the babies made it a little difficult, at least mine did, only because it's not like he could do much and I had to hold him the whole time (or someone did). While they were taking a nap, I was able to take Tiny Dancer down a big slide (she hated it) and the girls on the lazy river a few times (they both loved it). All in all, it was a great day! But when we got home, we were all so tired we didn't do much.

However, yesterday, the 6th, we got up and packed a picnic and took the kids to the park for a while, followed by a free movie at the theater in the afternoon. We all had a blast. Free family fun days - can't beat 'em!