Happy 2nd Birthday Jordan!

Today is my niece Jordan's 2nd birthday. She lives in Delta, CO so we don't get to see her on her actual birthday. But we were lucky enough to have her visiting (along with her mom and dad) all last week. My step-brother had her party on Friday at Nana's house. Yeah, I don't know what any of us would do without Nana's house! It was a nice little (kinda) gathering of family. As I have said before, our family is huge no matter how you slice it so any family function can only be so small. I love that we have so much family around though. I didn't get the privilege of growing up with ANY extended family. We would go visit some aunts, uncles and cousins periodically but that is not the same at all. Anyways, it was fun and nice to spend some time with Jordan. Especially for Emma since they are only a month apart in age.

Joey looking very excited for the cake....but where is Jordan to blow out her candles? I just love how happy he looks in this picture. Oh and for you cat lovers....that is Little John and he must have been feeling brave that night.
Blowing out her candles

A bag of loot.....the bag is almost as big as she is!

Happy Birthday Joey!

Friday was my nephew Joey's 3rd birthday and my step-sister had his party on Saturday at Nana and Grandpa's house. The kids had fun just playing and checking out the puppies. It was too chilly to go swimming that day. Then he opened presents and had cake. Here are a few pictures from the party.

Joey starting to open presents. Emma loves her cousin Joey!

Joey loves his baseball gloves! That is all he wanted to play with the rest of the day!

More presents....

Grandpa was a little jealous of Joey's laptop......

Cake time! He didn't want to wait for us to finish singing so he went ahead and blew out his candles!

Slumber Party!

Kayla had her birthday party on Saturday. She had 6 of her friends over for lunch and then it was off to see Alvin and the Chipmunks at the dollar theater (yep we ARE that cheap!). This was Kayla's first time doing anything like that without an adult being with her. But it was a nice pleasant surprise to see my friends husband walk in with his 3 children to see the very same movie the girls were going to! :) It was truly coincidental that they showed up. But nice for JR and I to know that they were there. We ended up with one of the girls going home after the movie because she wasn't feeling well. But this house was crazy for over 12 hours with these giggly, screaming girls running around. They did finally get quiet around 11 last night...but a couple of them didn't fall asleep until 2ish. Emma made a couple of friends along the way. She really wanted to be in the middle of it all whenever the girls were hanging out upstairs. And Eli spent part of the day with Darlin (JR's mom) so he wasn't subjected to girls ALL day! Here are a couple pictures from last night.

From top left: Janae, Kayla, Katy (aunt), Sarah, Jayde and Kadejah

Here comes the cake.....

The girls watching a movie for some "quiet" time

Emma's bday party

Have a temporary fix for my internet issues so I am taking this opportunity to update the blog here!

We had Emma's bday party on Sunday and it was great! We ended up with 21 people plus our family of 5 and 1 straggler that was a bit late (but excused considering he lives a couple hours away) in our back yard! It was great weather (actually kinda on the hot side) for doing it. And of course the kids love being outside. One of my friends has 2 little boys that are pretty fond of catching bugs so they really had a blast in our undiscovered backyard! And one friend even had a bug land on her and just about gave us all a show! :) Emma got way more presents than any child should so we breezed through opening them. She was such a trooper. I would help her get one opened and take it out from in front of her right away and she would accept that and move to the next one! And then came the cake. Our Wal-mart gives the baby their very own cake to demolish so we stuck the candle in it, the wind blew it out which was OK since her real bday wasn't until Tue (and she can't do it anyhow), and we let her have the cake. She stuck her little fingers in the icing and licked them a couple of times and then decided she wanted nothing more to do with that! So we had to get her out and wash her up right away. There were only a couple of swipes out of the frosting and maybe a tiny bite of actual cake gone! But that is true to Trumbull form there! Can't be dirty! Here are the pictures from Sunday.

Here is Emma with one of her many presents

Waiting patiently for the next one to come her way....and watching what is being done

Emma with her soccer ball from Janae

Opening her Elmo doll from her bff Morgan

She loves ducks....so what a perfect cake this is!

This is what I call conquering the box. She loves to tip them over and sit on them. Forget the toys that came in them!

Yep, she got caught playing with a baby toy! :) It was reading nursery rhymes to her.