Party time again

July is a busy birthday month for Christopher and his friends! I just realized that I didn't update the blog about Emily and Connor's birthdays last week. It was a super fun gymnastics party and Emily's mother, super creative woman that she is, made personalized Olympic shirts, water bottles and gold medals for the kids! Here is Chris after earning gold in the "run run jump jump" competition!

Today was Maddie's birthday too! Randa and I have a running joke that we've never been to each other's kids' birthday parties and we've known each other since the kids were a month old. This year it finally happened. Maddie's birthday present was this super cool backyard water slide. Chris had the best time. Check it out!

There were more celebrations last week and Mommy and Daddy went out for their 7th wedding anniversary. Hard to believe it's been 7 years since that amazingly fun wedding with, apparently, the best food ever that we only had a little bit of. Nevertheless, we did a little staycation 4 miles from our house and had a nice leisurely and late dinner and even got to have brunch the next morning at 9:30 (when I'm usually having my first snack of the day since breakfast is usually served around 6:30). Here we are decked out to go out...

Christopher got a lot of fun gifts for his birthday but one of his favorites is this water squirter from Luca. He likes to pretend it is a "bug zapper" and he gets rid of all our pests in the yard!

Finally, here is a pic of my boys. We went out to our favorite local establishment, BRGR, because it was Friday night, also known as "the night Mommy doesn't cook!"

Look out for another entry soon as we make a return trip tomorrow night to Great Wolf Lodge!