One last birthday entry

So Rachel's birthday was June 2nd and she celebrated with her first sleep-over party. We had five girls come for the party and four got to stay over night. There was lots of giggling and talking and singing going on till late into the night. At 1:30 we told them lights out. At 2AM Jason was sent down to inform them that lights out meant QUIET! Seeing as our room is above Rachel's every sound was coming straight up to us. They finally settled down about 2:30. The funny thing is most of them had obligations Saturday morning and had to be picked up by 9! So they came crawling out of Rae's room about 8:25 looking very tired. She had a great birthday but it will be a long time before another sleepover.

Nathan's birthday was the 27th and we had a party for him on Saturday the 28th. His recital was that morning from 10 to 11 and the party was from 1 to 3 so it was a very busy day. He was able to invite 5 friends over. It was looking a little iffy at the beginning of the week for RSVP's because of people being on vacation. But we finally got ahold of everyone, yeah! We had hamburgers for lunch and then let the kids choose their activities. They played play station and the Wii and air hockey. Then we did a pinata. I have no pictures of the pinata. With Nathan's five guests and our 7 kids Jason and I were kept busy keeping everyone safe and sound. No blood, no bruises and plenty of candy made it a great activity. The price we paid was no pictures, I'm okay with that. Then we finished with cake and presents. The funny thing was these kids took FOREVER to eat! They all got along so well and school had been out for two weeks that they kept talking and talking. Now while I can appreciate that skill more than anyone we didn't have time to do the slip n slide because the food part took so long. But Nathan had a great time so it's a success.