Pump It Up!

We celebrated William's 4th birthday with all of his friends at Pump it Up! Wil had a great time bouncing and playing and running around with his buddies. He was so excited. It was a great party and so easy!He got to wear the special birthday crown and everyone wished him a happy birthday before heading into the arenas for some jumping.
So lucky that both his Grandpa's were able to make it to the party...
...and both his Grandma's and Auntie Soosa too!
Getting ready to go into the second bouncer room.
Maddie, Kamryn and Jordyn.
Maddie and Mikos on the rock climbing wall. They did awesome!
Group photo before heading into the party room for some pizza and cake.
William was so excited to sit in the special birthday throne. He just loved it.
Happy birthday to William, happy birthday to you!!
We love you so very much William. We can't believe you are already 4! You are such a sweet, fun, awesome little man!

February 16

We just got done celebrating William's 4th birthday and it turned out to be a week long celebration! Grandma Jeanne and Papa Mick flew in to celebrate with us. Check out the sweet new bike they surprised him with when he got home from school that day! We had so much fun the night of William's birthday going to the suite at the Honda Center for a Ducks game. We not only had our whole family in the suite but we invited two families of Wil's best friends in his preschool class. It was a fun mix of people and the kids all had a blast running around crazy and playing!
William and his best buddies-- Maxwell and Maddie. :)
The two friends of Williams both have siblings who are in Maddie's Kindergarten class so it was sure fun for her too. Here she is with Luke and Jack. It was a wild and memorable time for all... and it was an awesome, high scoring hockey game too (not that I even got a chance to watch the game).

Pajama Day

Today was the 100th day of school. To celebrate, PAJAMA DAY! Maddie was so excited. She kept asking me before we left the house if it was really pajama day and she had me walk her in... she was so worried she'd be the only dressed in their PJ's.

One crazy weekend!

Last weekend, I was lucky enough to get together with four of my closest and dearest college friends PLUS their children. The occasion? Aeramy flew out to Southern California from Wichita Kansas for the weekend with her two kids- Trip and Hadley. We all bunked at Sarah's house and it made for early, early mornings, tons of LOUD fun with eight kids scampering about in the house and good times catching up with some of my bestest friends.
"Eight is Enough" !! Trip (3), Maddie (6), Hadley (1), Henry (1), William (4), Fletch (3), Lucy (3) and Fallon (3).

Box Car Races!

We spent last weekend at the races...the Indian Princess Box Car Races that is! It was Maddie's second year and she finished in 7th place overall. Last year she finished 9th so she is moving up in the ranks. Here is her winning car. #221. This is such a fun thing for her and Mikos to do and William and I got to come watch too. Good times.Everyone wins a trophy for design.
Final scores for fastest cars... 7th place.
Bigger trophy for 7th place. Maddie brought it to share day on Tuesday at school. She was so proud.
The excited winners!!