Birthday pics long overdue

Izzys big party with her friends. At one point we had over 30 kids here at the house! Thank goodness for good friends who help charperone and make sure no one dies!! Giant slip and slide, tramploine and a swingset and food. What else do you need?



Izzy's Birthday party at Domo with just family


boys pics to soon follow

Xander turns 6!!!

Xander turned 6 on September 16th 2009! How did he get so big? We all (Xander, Izzy, Dimon, Andy, Ti-Chi, Che-Chi (both Andy's parents), Nana, Papa (my parents), Uncle Ryan, and me, went to Great Times in Indy. It is a super fun and everyone should go at least once. They have a huge arcade where of course you can earn tickets to get prizes, and they also traditional arcade games like Pac-Man. They also have a go kart track, water bumper boats, and a huge tunnel ball pit thing. We went up on the Sunday after his birthday. It was great. We had his cake, a cars cake of course there at the arcade and then a few hours of playing and then to dinner. So my little boy is not so little anymore. Makes me sad . But I know he has to grow up. This is was harder than Izzy's last party where she turne 7. I'm not sure why but it was. Maybe its because I still call him my baby and he doesn't protest it. But he will forever be my little Xander man, who is the bestest little baby Xander in the whole wide world?

Izzy's Party

Ok so this is late too... but again just got the pics in the computer to work. (well finally hooked up the laptop instead of the desktop. My camera cord doesn't want to work, so I have to put the actual sd card in the computer, anyway...) Here is the background... We couldn't decide for Izzy's 7th birthday party what kind of party we wanted. We were going to do all these different themes then finally after much deliberation and much internet shopping and weighing the costs we decided on a Luau Party. It was awesome!!!
Andy built a Tiki bar, yes a Tiki bar where we set all the food and drinks. It even has a fan in the ceiling to cool off the person serving behind it. Dad and Ryan while cleaning an apartment found a set of unfinished cornhole gamey things, so we snagged Jenrie and she painted us 2 Tiki god heads on them, free hand I might add!!! Sick just sick!!!, Mom and I made the invites, mostly Mom, I just cut and glued. The kids ate (so did some of the parents, we had the trampoline obviously, the cornhole game- which the kids had teams. We had a Pinata, because we can't have a party without one, and a mega slip n slide. (2 of them put together going down the big hill to the right of our house. The kids spent most of the day doing that, so the other games were unneeded obviously, because what else do you need on a hot day other then candy, cake, hamburgers and a hose? Add the trampoline and you have some very hapy and tired kids, regaurdless of how much sugar you have just packed into them!!! Its a great thing. Oh and Andy and J also made a surf board and painted it, duh! you saw the pic.... anyway it was awesome. We had a total of about 15 kids come and go throughout the 1-4 pm time period. It was good. Izzy was happy and we had a blast and of course Andy got all kinds of compliments on his hut, of which I have no good pics at the moment so I will take one and post it later! This was her party with friends, Held on May 30th, her actual birthday we as a family, including Ti_Chi and Chi-Chi (Andy's parents) went bowling. And David pulled a muscle and was in a sling and physical therapy for the whole month of June! Izzy was very happy and had a wonderful birthday!!

Halloween Party

Here are pics from the November 1st Pirate Party! We all dressed up and some friends of Izzy's came over and we played games and ate pizza and cake. Goodtimes!

The first game we played was catch the gummi worm. We tied gummi worms by fishing line and tied them to the swing set. They had to see who could catch the worm first. Then me and Andy did it, he cheats! (His response.... "Pirate!" Such a dork! Yes he won.

Next game was stick the eye patch on the pirate flag. That was interesting, the little buggers could see through the hankerchief! Little pirates! scallywags the lot of 'em!!!! Here was the result of that.

SOme of the crew didnt' make it to the party, but passed out.
While others ran frantically searched for the treasure!!!!!!!!!!!

All of which is adorable and on video. SO only a small clip of victory will be showcased here.

ENJOY!!!!!!!

Then after the treasure hunt we had to break the treasure box open.

Carving Pumpkins...

This was this past Friday night. This was an interesting night. I was so sick I couldn't even sit up for more than 10 minutes because I was so sick but Xander did carve a little and Izzy helped to clean out the pumpkins. Dimon did a lot of poking the pick into the back of pumkins and feeding guts to the dog. It was cute.
Xan liked to stab the pumpkin. Izzy was covered in flour from head to toe, and chasing Uncle Ryan around.... but like I said I was sick so getting pictures was hard, cause everyone else was involved in carving, or chasing kids.

two of these are mom and dad's but the other 3 are ours, I still have 2 to carve, since I didn't get to do it Friday night.

Xander's 5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes! Our little Xander is not little anymore. He is officially 5 years old!

Our little man is growing by leaps and bounds. We celebrated his birthday on the Sunday following his birthday (Sept. 16th was his official, but that was on a Tuesday, so we made it Sunday.) Plus he took in cupcakes for his friends at school. But what was so exciting this year is that he was fully participating in the festivities. He opened everyone of his presents, and reacted with them! Of course he opened some little "Cars" figures first, and then we had to convince him to open the others, by holding the cars for him. But he opened all of them by himself!!!!!!!!!!!!! He has never done that before! He also blew out the candles on his cake and when one didn't go out, he moved to blow it out! he was engaged and excited! In attendance at this wonderful event were: of course me and Andy, Izzy and Dimon. Then were Ti-Chi, and Chi-Chi (Dave and Lil),and Nanny (Great Grandmother of kids) Nana, Papa, and Uncle Ryan (Marie and Larry), and Audrey and Israel, Nathan and Julian. (I think I spelled that wrong. Sorry)

It was so exciting! And to top it all off on Wed, the day after his official birthday, he said Mama for the very first time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here are some pictures!!!!!!!!!!!!!