Birthdays!!

Evie turned 2 last week and Jamie turned one year older (I won’t depress him with the number).  It was a week of celebrations!

Coping with the concept of aging

On Wednesday we celebrated Evie’s birthday with our little family.  Jamie was off from work, so they all met me for lunch at our pizza spot.  Later we gave Evie her gifts - her favorites seemed to be a caterpillar tunnel and a stool that Jamie painted for her.

Hanging at City Hall 

Cutest lunch dates

Working hard to make a cake

Still a little sick and frightened of our singing

Present time!

Special stool from Daddy

Maggie was definitely jealous, but did a pretty good job being a positive sister for the day.  At one point she whimpered (trying to hold back tears), “can we change my birthday?  It will be too cold on my birthday.”  I told her that her birthday was one of the best days of our lives and I would never change it, even if I could.  That seemed to help a bit.

Jamie made this awesome beanbag toss
for Evie's birthday

Testing it out... Maggie is not the most coordinated kid...

On Friday we celebrated Jamie and Amy’s birthday with dinner at Fishbones and cake at the house.  Maggie was super awesome at the restaurant, I hardly had to watch her.  Evie… well, she’s 2, so it was a bit more effort to keep her happy.

Hanging out after dinner

A little help from the kids

You gonna eat that, Grandpa?

Jamie made this corn-hole set for Amy's gift

Saturday we had the family over for Evie’s birthday party.  The weather was great, and it was awesome to see all the kids playing together.  Evie was so cute when we sang “Happy Birthday,” alternating between joy and suspicion.

Make a wish!

Jamie's former student made this cute cake!

Presents!

Disrupting his artist flow

Big kids

Girls table

Happy Birthday to me!

Singing our loooooooong birthday song

Let them eat cake

Nothing makes Evie smile like an M&M

Super Grandma!

Playing dress up

I feel fabulous darling!

Just going for an afternoon drive

Jammin with the birthday girl

Sarah loved singing into the mic... and eating it...

Mayhem!

Maggie finally learned how to drive her little car (she always used to make Luke shuttle her around), and Evie got her own little four-wheeler which she loved.  

Evie got a t-ball set for her birthday, so Jamie had fun teaching the girls.

Watch out!