6th Birthday!

The girls turned 6 yesterday! We had a family party last night & then had their friends over today. A great time at both events and everyone's tired now! Couple of pics before I turn in and more tomorrow (assuming I recover.....)

Another Year Gone!?!?!?!

Yes, it's true. It's birthday time again. The 5 year olds have slipped through our fingers and suddenly we have six year olds to celebrate. And we will!

I've been working on siding things up around here, whipping up batches of icing, baking cakes tonight and cleaning like a fiend and shopping for party supplies.

The birthday gift was easy. We just got them one thing to share. One present for 3 girls, that's ok isn't it??? Let's hope so! Murray and I got it started the other night and put the frame together. Then tonight Teena, Dale & Boo came for supper as we all have soccer nearby. Dale stayed behind with Murray and my brother came over to help out too. We left a little early so they could get started undetected and by the time we got home it was all done! I had envisioned a repeat of the previous nightmare experiences with the swingset and playhouse. All those late night construction projects! This was a breeze in comparison and we've already tested it out to make sure it's ok for the kids! They have no idea what they're getting and haven't really asked us for anything.

Murray's leaving work early tomorrow so he can be home when they get off the bus and then we'll surprise them!

Good long day!

This past weekend was a doozy! Quite likely our busiest day ever but the girls were troopers and all went well.

We were up a little after 6 on Saturday morning, earlier than a school day. That just isn't right on a weekend is it????

Murray was doing a race and needed to be dropped off for 8am so we piled into the car that he'd gotten up even earlier to finish loading.

We got him to his race starting point and we got to do a bit of visiting but then we started to get hungry since we'd skipped breakfast in the rush to get out on time.

I decided it would be fun to go to the market and eat there! We bought all sorts of things to try but the first few didn't go over well and although I could have killed myself eating them, I had to let it go. It is also very wrong to throw away perfectly good cream filled pastries!! We ran into lots of people we knew and then found a friend from the gym who was there with her kids so we all went around together for awhile. After we were done shopping, we all went down by the water to go walking there for a bit.

The girls found some caterpillars and wanted to bring them home. It was a bit tricky getting seat belts buckled with someone crawling around your hand! We managed to get everyone home alive, grab some pb sandwiches and then zip back out for Lovey's violin lesson. She went in with the teacher alone while I sat in the waiting area with the other two and looked at books. They were incredibly good and quiet while she had her lesson.

We got home from that and then got changed and cleaned up and wrapped some presents to go off to Tulip's birthday party. They looooooooooooove parties! They had cool games and lots of fruit to snack on and a scavenger hunt at the end to find the birthday cake. (it had been stolen by a nasty witch!) Luckily they were able to do the proper magic spell to make the cake reappear and we got to eat it. Afterwards, they went on a witch hunt all over the yard, searching for clues. The folks from CSI want to keep a watch on these up and coming sleuths. They were finding traces & evidence like you wouldn't believe. Even on the walk home they were still finding clues!

We had a few minutes to relax when we got home but not too many. Why? Because we had another birthday party at 6! and a pool party at that. Soooooooo off with the dresses and into bathing suits, pack a bag with towels etc and head down to the pool to meet the next party crowd.

Another great birthday and the girls put on life jackets and swam the length of the pool into the deep end! They'd never been in deep water like that before and they were very impressed with themselves. All the kids started jumping off the diving board so they gave that a go too and fell in love!

Once cake & presents were finished, we jumped in the car and raced out to pick up Murray whose race had finished at supper time. He was all by his lonesome and it had started to rain. He'd been able to get under a picnic shelter and read some of his book and enjoyed the R&R.

His race went well, they came in 5th, right after his little brother. His partner was experienced and good with the map so they did well. There were 30ish teams participating.

He was glad to see us and just as we loaded the canoe, it started to pour so he finished up the bike and then we hit a McDonald's as we were hungry from snacking all day but not really eating a meal anywhere along the line! Oops! Mother of the year again! :)))

By the time we got home and everyone tucked in, it was almost 10pm but they slept well and suffered no ill effects and neither did we!

Mr Bojangles came to town!

We had a chance to hang out with Mandy & Mr Bojangles today! They were in town to pick up Andrew from a race he was doing nearby. They were here when we got home from church and we all had lunch together. :)))

The girls were pleased to show Mr B around and let him play with their toys and Sweetie took him outside and they toured around the yard together for awhile too.

Everyone enjoyed the time up in the trees and it was a difficult extraction when it was time to go!

Thanks for coming to see us guys!!! We miss you and were so glad to have you all to ourselves. Muah!