The Big Birthday

Emma has been anxiously awaiting her fifth birthday and even more she can't wait until the end of the month when we have her "big" birthday party. She is so excited. The invites have been mailed and she is counting down the days.

Since her "big" party isn't until the end of the month Dave took the day off work on her birthday, picked up Emma and Ally really early from school and they spent the day together. They went to McDonald's for lunch, then the Zoo and the Planetarium and even saw a movie at the Omnimax....I was bummed I couldn't get off work to go but they had the best day. When they got home we had dinner and then opened presents. I don't think she'll forget what a great day it was and Ally can't get over how Daddy picked her up from school before nap (so cool)!!!

Grandma's Day Swim Party

August 5th was the second annual Grandma's Day swim party at Linda's house and we had so much fun swimming and eating lunch by the pool. All in all there were 15 of us ranging from Great-grandma's to babies and even more fun was that it was mostly all girls (Papa Donnie and Evan were the only two boys)!

Below are a few snapshots from the day.

Summer Days

We haven't had a lot going on the last couple weekends so we really just been hanging out at home. Ally went to her first birthday party for her friend Molly from school. It was the first time she's ever gone to a party without Emma. I think she was nervous to go it alone but once we got there and she saw all the other little girls from her Sunrays class at school she didn't miss a beat. All in all , it was a good weekend but as usual it went way to fast.

On Tuesday, we are going to the second annual Grandma's day swim party where we will get together to swim and have lunch with a bunch of my dad's cousins, their kids and the great Grandma's. We all have girls so it should be a fun day of chaos with eight little screaming girls!!!

I'll take as many pictures as I can!