Daddy's 55th Birthday

Daddy turned 55 ~ we celebrated with balloons, cake, homemade cards and dinner.  Ethan and Julia came over to celebrate with us so it was so nice to have everyone together.  Daddy made his famous ribs and we had corn and caprese salad with Sweet Mandy B's cake and cookies.  We are so lucky to have such a loving, fun, cool, hands on Daddy.  We love you so much!  Thanks for being the best DADDY in the world!

My 42nd Birthday

We celebrated my birthday more than a few times this year.  First I had dinner at Etta River North with Amanda, Holly and Stacey, then dinner at Maple & Ash with our neighbors Ritu and Sam, then we had dinner at Francesca's in the suburbs after family pictures and finally had dinner at Mia Francesca in Chicago with the 4 of us.  It was so nice spending time with family celebrating my birthday.  I'm so lucky to have such an amazing group of family and friends.   

 

Grayson's 6th Birthday Party at Altitude Trampoline Park

Grayson celebrated his 6th birthday at Altitude Trampoline Park.  He has 30 friends in his class (they have two full time teachers as well as several aides) so we invited all his classmates in addition to his other friends in the neighborhood.  Grayson had the best time with his friends at the trampoline park. They spent the first hour jumping, followed by a dodge ball game, pizza, cake and more jumping.  

Grayon's presents:

Samantha: book, Rory: book or legos, Sienna - Amazon gift card, Builing blocks huge snake, monster truck book, Batman battle power, Alice T - Bernstein Bears book, Not sure:  Bobble head hanger, Andrews world mystery figure, Nora: walls and warriors game; Martin: cars launching mack transporter, April: gift card to Jenni's ice cream; Ginny: batman; Andrew: how to train your dragon; Will: rock, paper, scissors, pickles game, woopy cushion, Beurskens family: minecraft legos, lion guard stuffed animal; Riley: minecraft wallet, minecraft stuff, baby animals; Charlotte: star wars legos; Michael and Poppy: light up football, light up rockets; James: shark monster trucks; Conner: batman bendables, city legos; Luke: uno cards, batman legos; Jack: minecraft legos; 

Ariel: sharkology for Liam, other cool stuff for Grayson; Alice: star wars legos; Francisco - city legos,  Ross family - gift card, Sergi family: gift card, Mimi/Papa/Oma: gift card.  

Theme for party:

Grayson is obsessed with Minecraft so of course we had to have a Minecraft themed birthday party.  Grayson wore a green button down creeper shirt from Minecraft.  We had pizza, fruit, Sweet Mandy B's birthday cake and treat bags.  We also had fun Minecraft balloon bouquets and decorations for the party.