The little one is 5!

Well, our little one has hit the 5 year milestone mark! She had a very mac n cheesey birthday, with a big park party with all her friends, mac n cheese and hotdogs, rootbeer floats, and more mac n cheese for dinner, then we roasted some marshmallows to finish out a fun day! She still doesn't feel 5 to me. But she is my baby, and I am in a bit of denial. I am pretending like I am not gonna have to put her on a schoolbus in September! More blogging to come on those emotions. But for now, we will just party :)

Ella is enjoying her birthday cereal :)

Her friend Timmy got her mac n cheese for her birthday. What a smart boy....he knows
the way into this girls affections!

Makin a 5 year old birthday wish!

A birthday pic with her sis

A finish to a really great day for little miss Ella Curry!

Birthday Mad Lib

Seven

Well, my firstborn is 7. She once again talked her parents into letting her have yet again a slumber party! So Annabelle, Katrina, Emma, Starlena and Siera partied it up on Friday the 4th! It was a pretty jam packed 15 hours of fun. The girls started out making their individual pizzas for dinner, then then we opened gifts, had some strawberry shortcake, did a mad lib, made some bracelets, watched a movie and then bed. Bedtime was a bit of a challenge, but that comes with the whole slumber party package. Everyone started out in the sleeping bags in the loft together, then around midnight, everyone moved to a bed, and wala! That was enough to get them to sleep! I made some choc chip waffles, and eggs for breakfast, and then more bracelet making and yet another movie, before parents came at 10. It was so much fun, I think Annabelle just about burst! It is worth it all to see my little 7 yr. old have the time of her life!

The fab 5!

Some delicious pizza

Happy Birthday shortcake :)

Star got Annabelle a matching Tangles doll

concentrating hard on bracelet making!

Birthday Fun

October is always a fun, busy month for Chris and I since we both have October birthdays. This year, we really lived it up with a birthday dinner at HopWorks Urban Brewery in Portland with friends, I got a weekend away with a friend to her beach house on my birthday, and then Chris and I got to go to a cabin right on the Puget Sound in the Seattle area with another couple, this last weekend, thanks to the wonderful friends we have who agree to have our girls overnight (such a blessing, since we don't have grandparents in town!). I forgot to bring my camera to HopWorks Urban Brewery, but we did get to sit in a cool little separate room that was once a vault. But here are some pics of all our fun:

Happy 36th Chris!

Kristin and I in Pacific City, Or

My hot husband, finding lots of clams on the beach

Isn't he a beautiful little guy?! They are ALL over the place on the Puget Sound beach, it was like taking a field trip to the tide pools... we also saw a ton of clams and sand dollars, and even some crabs that were taken back and cooked right up!

This is the gorgeous view of the Puget Sound from our cabin.