It was a great day! I got to:
We had our big blowout birthday party for Evan's 2nd birthday yesterday. We had 24 or 25 people (I keep losing count). The weather was a bit rainy so most everyone was in the living room. Everyone was good....there wasn't any fighting or crying...oh and the kids were good too! :) The adults had ribs and chicken while the kids had pizza (Elmo's favorite food). We had a chocolate Elmo cake for desert. Note to self...next time don't show Evan the cake toppers before the party b/c he WANTS them NOW! We bought a pinata but then decided to use it as decoration instead of as a pinata b/c I was really worried that Elmo coming apart & candy spilling out of his butt may have scared them for life. All the toddlers got goodie bags with Dorothy Crackers (goldfish), Cookie Monster Cookies (Famous Amos individual size cookies), Bert and Ernie's Bubbles (spillproof bubble thing) and a Big Bird blowout thingy (I have no idea what those are actually called....you know...the think with the paper curl on the front). We all had a great time and the white carpet (which I soooo did not pick) in the living room survived!
Mark and Doug on Daddy duty! Hold on.....that's not Mark's baby! That's Lauren! Mark is stepping in because Coz was on his way to/in Fort McMurray.
Getting ready to blow out the candle....it's a bit FAR away. Daddy had to help out a bit!
Evan loved the hats in theory but REFUSED to wear one!
Yum!
Opening presents....and a random picture of me to remind you that I do actually exist. Not that you would know it from our picture files!
Evan got a super cool recycling truck from Georgia and James. He has had so much fun "recycling" all his puzzle pieces, etc & then dumping them back out.
Daniel is always VERY smiley!
Georgia and Kate love the blowout thingies!
Sign I made (Angelle helped!)
Happy Birthday, my little man. It seems like 2 years have flown by but it also seems like you've been in our lives forever. You are a wonderful sweet child who has recently started to act a bit like Napolean. I begin to wonder if we've hit the terrible twos and then you turn a corner and are happy again. You bring light into everyone's world. I can't wait to see many, many more of your birthdays to see what kind of little boy (and then man) you grow up to be.
I love you!
Mommy
It's that time of year again when Kate, Evan & Daniel all have birthdays. I can not explain how wonderful it was to have my two best Calgary friends pregnant & then on maternity leave at the same time as I was. Here in Canada, we get a whole year off for maternity leave (awesome, huh?) so Diana, Andrea and I got to hang out lots. We did the mall, coffee, Gymboree, the zoo, etc, etc, etc. Unfortunately, I had to go back to work after a year. :(
Anyhoo, back to the post at hand. This past weekend we celebrated Kate's 2nd birthday in grand style. I took about 2 million pictures but I'll only upload a few. Evan's birthday is next....I better start planning!
We celebrated Will's birthday this weekend at Nana's. The actual day is the 16th but this weekend was as close as we could get it. We had a very yummy meal of steaks, potatoes & corn followed up with cupcakes from Bliss & Co. Definitely my favorite new foodie find!
Will turned 11 this year. He has grown up so fast & is getting really tall. He'll be a teenager before we know it!
Today was Dewey's birthday but we had his birthday party yesterday. Will, Nicole, Nana & Papa Don were all here to celebrate. We grilled steaks & had an AWESOME birthday cake from a new bakery in Calgary named Bliss & Co. Cupcakes. The birthday cake was chocolate cake with caramel buttercream filling & chocolate icing. It was SOOOOO good! Even Nana liked it & she doesn't like bought cake!!!!
Here's some pics from our celebration!
Yesterday was Nana's birthday. We always try to do something special on her birthday. Since she treats us to her wonderful cooking all year, we usually take her out to dinner somewhere nice in Calgary. Unfortunately, going out to dinner is not as easy as it used to be. Evan goes to bed at 7:30pm every night. That coupled with the fact that the last two hours of the day are usually his fussiest means that going out to dinner is not what it's cracked up to be! Dewey suggested we go to dim sum on Sunday but we do that all the time so not really special. I looked around to see where in Calgary served brunch & came up with The Ranche. It is located in Fish Creek park in Calgary. It's an old ranch house that was built in 1896. The food was excellent & we all had a great time. There was even an ice sculpture out front!
Well, I better run....enough procrastinating.... gotta get to the gym!
Today is my sister's last day in Calgary & it's also her 18th birthday. To celebrate, I took the day off from work and we went shopping. First we went to "Under the Bridge Fashions" in Bridgeland. They have pretty cute clothing though a bit pricey. After that we headed to Value Village. It's a large thrift store chain in Calgary. Victoria found 3 or 4 more T-shirts for her T-shirt addiction. She loves random T-shirts with graphics printed on them. Some of her finds from this week were one from a student radio in Saskatchewan, one from a Canadian diving team & one for a team called the Titans. After that we headed for Chinook mall. We shopped there for a few hours and then we were shopped out.
Victoria decided she wanted to be adventurous for her birthday dinner so we decided to introduce her to Indian Food at Glory of India. Glory is one of our favorite Indian restaurants ever. Victoria really liked the food (which is good). We were glad that she liked it and that she was willing to try something new.
We're sad to see her head back to Alabama. She'll be starting college in a couple of weeks after getting home. I'm sure she'll be having fun then!
Omar and Spencer
John and Lori Anderson and Andrea
The Huestons
Me and Andrea
Me and Andrea with the Birthday Boy
Marlow and Beckie
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