Mother's Day and other fun things

I had a great Mother's Day (a day early) and the actual Mother's day was nice too except I missed my hubby!  Tim left to GTMO the Saturday night before Mother's Day for the week.

Paige and Tim made me breakfast in bed!  She was so cute!  That is Paige's favorite thing to do for Mother's Day and when she found out Tim was leaving the night before she was so bummed because she needed his help so they decided to do Mother's Day the day before!  It was just a nice relaxing day nothing scheduled and Tim's flight was a red eye so we had the whole day and evening together.

Paige gave me a huge awesome card and the boys made me a hat and a rainbow and some other cute things out of paper.  They also gave me a starbucks gift card and water cup with straws for the hot weather in GTMO.  Tim gave me an Olive Garden gift card so we could eat out while he was gone and not have to cook.  So sweet and thoughtful!

 On actual Mother's Day we went up to Tim's brother and family's house for lunch and the kids played all afternoon in the sprinkler.  Her Mother and Brother and Sister in Law and their two kids were there too.  It was a nice relaxing afternoon!  Thanks guys for including me!

A visit with Uncle Arnie and Tom

We went to Portland Sunday to get a quick visit in with my Grandpa's brother.  He lives in LA and I don't get to see him much and missed him the last time he was up.  He is the little one sitting next to my Grandpa in the pictures when he was a child.  With moving to Cuba for a couple years and not knowing when I might go through LA again we wanted to make sure we got to see him and visit and get hugs in while he was here.  It was nice to go to lunch and back to the house and just sit and visit for a bit.  Uncle Arnie I love you so very much!

And of course we got to visit with Grammy also!!!  We love you so much Grammy!

 Nixon's Free Water

The first warm day we had here in Renton Nixon decided people were probably hot and needed water.  He said he didn't think I would let him charge money for it so he made it free.  He did actually give one cup away and made a $2 donation from it from our sweet next door neighbor.

He was so cute and determined.

Thanks for checking out our blog.  Hope you have a great Memorial Day weekend.  Tim and I are in our good friends wedding this weekend.  Soon to be Mr. Wayne and Elisa Long!!!!  And a Happy Birthday to my Dad!

Birthday Bashes and other Fun!!

Both Nixon and Paige have had recent birthdays!  Nixon turned 6 in April and Paige 12 in May!!  This is a long post with both kids' special days in it!  We had a great 2 weeks celebrating them.  We can not believe our youngest is 6 and our oldest is 12!!   WOW

Paige and Mom.  She is just about as tall as me and wears almost the same size shoe now!!

Nixon's 6th Birthday 

Carnival Party!!

His cake!  We got at Paige's school bake sale.

We did a carnival and Paige and Emma sold concessions!  The kids had red tickets to buy cotton candy (homemade by Paige) and hot dogs, popcorn, red vines, Yoohoo and punch!

The kids had such a blast spending their tickets it was so cute to watch!

Blue mouths from cotton candy!

Paige the cotton candy maker!

Isn't he just adorable!!

They got to spend tickets on games too!

Our version of knock the cups down, with a sling shot!

Opening Gifts!

Good ol Pin the Tail on the Donkey!

The birthday gang!

 

Nixon had his best bud and cousin stay for a sleepover!  He was so excited!

The boys and their pillow pets!  Can't have a sleepover with out them!

They had so much fun and played together the whole night and just let their imaginations run wild.  Even with an odd number no one left anyone out it was so sweet and fun to just sit and watch them.  They crashed watching a movie!

They chowed down on waffles for breakfast!

For his actual birthday day we went to the driving rang for the first time.  My Grandpa gave us clubs for the kids before he passed away.  The kids have been begging to go.  It was a blast!

Best Day Ever!!!  So much fun!

 Combined Family Birthday Dinner for Both!

Grandparents,Aunt, Uncle, Cousins, and some good friends came with us to celebrate both birthdays at Red Robin!

We had a lot of fun!  Thank you guys we love you all!

YEAH Get the Burger!

Paige is really starting to look grown up!

He loves musical cards.  Look at that grin looks like trouble haha!

Nixon and his cousin Nolan with their lemons!

Paige was surprised to get an iPod touch from Mom and Dad.

Cousin Time!!

Emma and Paige, They love each other so very much!

Nixon with Grandma and Grandpa

Paige with Grandma and Grandpa

Paige's 12th Birthday Sleepover

Paige has been making a recipe book for a couple years now and wanted to make her own ice cream cake so we did.  Wow it was amazing.  It had oreo cookie crust or base, vanilla ice cream, layer of fudge, then whip cream.  I ran out of frosting for the words so had to shorten it to B-day LOL.

Paige and her two best friends Mackenzie and Mia!  Very sweet girls.  Thank you guys for always being so nice and such good friends to Paige!

Candle time!

opening gifts.

Another recipe she had was for heart lollipops made with mini candy canes.  So we tried that too!

We went to a late movie and then the girls just hung out and played with their iPod's and ate candy!  It was a fun night!

I know this post was long thank you for taking the time to look at it!  I really can't believe my kids are just growing up right before our eyes!

Tim is in GTMO this week so maybe my next post will have some pictures of what we can expect when we get there.  He said he will take lots for us!