Swimming and more Birthday Celebrations!?

Tuesady, our first full day with a FULL house! WE had a party to plan and put together for Duck and we had a lot of work to do! It was so much more fun thouth putting together this BBQ with everybody there, than had I done it on my own. The kids too were pretty excited about finally having Daddy's birthday party. I felt like such a flake having planned this bbq last minute, then having to cancel, then doing it last minute again, but gosh darn it we had to do soemthing!

First though we had to do something with the kids and get them out of the house. So we took them out to Wiard park to play, have lunch, then play in their little kiddie pool. It was short, fun, and just what the kids needed to wear them out for nap time!

WE had a fabulous dinner of Beef, Pork, Chicken and shrimp kabobs (thanks to the help of master chef DUck), Corn ont he Cob, fresh fruit, and Garlic Bread. And to top it all off....another Ice Cream cake. Duck LOVES ice cream cake and this one turned out SUper yummy!

It was a simple party really (most of the work was the food and my darn yard!), we had dinner, played a game and had dessert. It was a beautiful night for an outdoor party and thanks to all that came...it really was so fun to have you all here and to have family be part of it!

Our good friends Kimberly and Joey had their baby Max just 2 1/2 weeks before we had Savannah and I had been dying to get a picture of the two of them together. Max was hungry, but being so patient to have his binki taken away for this photo!

6 days old and SEcond PHoto shoot...oh yeah and Crater Lake!

Wednesday we a full and crazy, but fun day! We actually had a lot to do in the morning, just getting house in order, kids dressed, ourselves re3ady, but also because we were going to go to Crater Lake that night and had to make sure to have dinners all ready and packed. Also mom, brent and shal were leaving the next morning and had to be all ready for that.

Well with all that going on, I also wanted to do some indoor photos of Savannah before mom left. So we had to get all the above done by nap time so we could use the quiet of the day to do pictures! It kinda worked that way! ;)

Crater Lake was a blast, it was a little chilly and Savannah had her first blow out, but it was fun to show the amazing lake to the family that hadn't seen it yet, for the kids to run around and be wild, and then to cook our tin foil dinners and roast marshmallows was of course the best! The kids took advantage of the freedom to run around and get dirty. They saw deer, explored the area, and ate all their food after such an exhausting afternoon!

These last two of just of Savannah wearing some cute little Jammies her Grandma Duck sent her.