Tave's Christmas Party

I had a big, HUGE mommy mess-up. 

Weston gets invited to a lot of Birthday parties (due to school and sports, he just knows more kids right now). Tave was finally invited to a party. and not just any party- his best friend, Michael's. He was SO thrilled and couldn't wait and talked about it the whole week before the party. It was a BIG deal to him.  

But... I was actually out of town on the day of the party and completely FORGOT to tell Jeff (who wasn't around for all the pre-birthday talk) about it.

I realized that night that Tave had missed it and I cried. Really, truly.  I felt like such a bad mom.  

I hoped that he would forget about it and just didn't bring it up. But he knew it was on a Saturday and when the next Saturday rolled around he was so excited  "Mom! Today's Saturday and Michael's party is on a Saturday, is it today?!!!"  

Um, no....I had to tell him.  And he cried and I cried again. Boo. Bad moment all around.

Here comes the good news.  Since he's been missing his friends and we missed the party they all went to,  we decided to throw our own special Christmas party for Tave.  

It was a hit and we had so much fun:

When they arrived, we colored gingerbread people pictures:

Then we played  "Jingle, Jingle, Bell" (duck, duck, goose)

the kids came up with all sorts of Christmas things to say.  Like "Reindeer, Reindeer, Santa" and "Christmas, Christmas, Present"  It was hilarious:

After the game, we had a gift exchange. Everyone brought a gift and we played Christmas music while they passed the gifts around the circle. When the music stopped they got to open the gift they were holding. They loved it!

Then, the yummiest part - Cookie decorating! Everyone took it very seriously and worked so hard on their gingerbread people:

We had a great time, and most of all, it made Tave feel special to have his own little party with his friends. 

Definitely a win for this mama!

Nicole & Shar's Birthday!

 Shar & Travis moved here August 18th, just in time for us to spend our birthday together! YAY!!!

It is SO much fun to have the kiddos back together again. 

They are having a blast, and we are loving it too!!

So they stayed at our house for the weekend and Monday morning (our b-day) the guys let us sleep in. 

We had to be ready to leave by 10am and that's when they gave us our gift:  the day together!!  

It was awesome.

We went to Kneaders for the amazing french toast breakfast. Then headed to the mall for mani/pedis. Bliss.

Did some shopping and then met up with the guys for a date night dinner.

After dinner we went back to our house for a fun party with the kiddos.

It was AWEsome. So amazing. I love my birthday...Jeff sure knows how to spoil me!!!

Love my sister:

Happy Birthday to us!

The guys made our favorite dessert, cream cheese pie with fresh fruit. And they ROCKED. 

It was THE best pie ever. Really, they made it better than I ever have. 

Cute kiddos enjoying the food:

Ryder loved my party  hat:

Happy Birthday Shar!  

Love this little fam:

I love my crazy guys!

Birthday bash with the cousins!

We celebrated Weston's birthday with the family a few days late. It turned out SO awesome since we were able to have a relaxing afternoon with just family.  

Since Tave's birthday was right before the baby was born, we hadn't given him his 'big' gift.  We finally ordered it through Amazon and gave it to him earlier in the day. It turned out perfectly- both boys had some thing fun and new to ride outside:

Uncle Shawn came to celebrate with us, the boys sure love him:

Me & Tanneah, Chels & Callen.  These two will be best buds soon:

We went on a treasure hunt to find the party favors:

He was THRILLED to get a scooter and couldn't wait to try it out:

Blowing out the candles:

Chels, Rob, Syanne, Aydrien, Reverie, & Tanneah. Love them!

All the cute kiddos, I love that everyone has a buddy their age!!!

We love our cousins and can't wait for Mila & Kapria to get here so we're all together again!

Happy 6th Birthday West!!!

Weston's birthday was such a blast. He wanted a Pokemon party (just to clarify, he wanted it first so that's why Tave asked for one!) and since he was inviting different friends I could do all the same stuff! It was awesome!

Jeff's mom was here from Texas so she got to be part of the birthday festivities this year, it was super fun!

The boys were pretty set on having a pinata this year.  Did you know pokemon pinatas are pretty much non-existent?!  So we found this awesome dragon who we called Dragonite:

The invite and the gift bags:

Little Callen just chilling:

After the party we went to dinner with Uncle Shawn & Grandma:

Weston has wanted a bow & arrow for SO LONG. Uncle Shawn did not disappoint:

Grandma was brought both the boys birthday presents with her, which was fun for Tave to get to open something too. They both LOOOVED their new pjs:

Jeff and I with our awesome SIX year old birthday boy. 

The day he was born changed our lives forever. It has been an incredible 6 years with this sweet guy:

And some dancing fun with the bros:

Wrestling with dad:

No night is complete without a little Callen snuggling:

Happy Birthday West. We love you!