Birthday Fun with friends!

 Happy 2nd Birthday to one of my besties sweet baby girl, Kinsley.

Who loves their Popsicle??? The Birthday Girl?  Ya think?



orange sherbet + trampoline face = 2 cute!



Thanks to the "YUMMY WAGON" for bringing ice cream treats!

"I did red and yellow"

This was the answer I got when I asked, "What did you do?" 

Ava and I decided to have a spa night.  I painted her fingernails and toenails.  She wanted a design on them but we had to wait on the polish to dry.  We both came into the living room.  The next thing I hear is Ava saying after she walked back into the bedroom "OH MY!!"  I run in there expecting to see all the polish poured out on the bed or floor.  I just see Carson crouched down on the floor hiding.  No big mess.  I asked, "What did you do?"  He shows me his fingers and says, "I did red and yellow".  Gotta love it!  I really can't believe he did that good of a job. HA!

Birthday Celebration

We headed to Columbia to celebrate Carson and Ava's upcoming birthdays with Nana and Granddaddy.  First stop....Chuck E Cheese!  I have figured this thing out.  CEC opens at 9am!  9am!  The traffic starts pouring in around 11:30.  So I have found that if we get there at 10:00ish, we are the first and ONLY people there most of the time.  I ask them to hold our pizza until 11:15.  This gives us time to play, convert our tickets, and pick out those awesome dollar tree prizes.  Then our pizza comes, we eat and are leaving by 11:45ish.  BAM....don't have to worry about the crowd.  On second thought, maybe I should not have shared this.

 

 

 

Carson found Patrick under our table.  We
 adopted him and gave him a good home.

Nana found Barney in a car, we would not let
 her adopt him.but she at least got to ride
 with him.

 After hard play, finally time for some PIZZA

AHHHHHHH - CHUCK E CHEESE CAME OUT!

Present opening time

Woo hoo - Who doesn't love an AS SEEN ON TV
product! Ava has been dying for the
Cookie Dough Maker
(Buy one get one free!)

And a cookie cake. A HUGE hit.

Carson got a SAMURAIZER!  It changes you from just a normal Power Ranger into a Samurai.

Go Go Samurai!

THEN OFF TO THE ZOO

Spontaneous trip = crazy expensive gift shop visit! Sunglasses, hat and Sunscreen - $45.00! But the cashier gave me a rubber band from around her wrist so I could pull my hair back - that made it all worth it seeing how it felt like it was 120 degrees.

30 minutes of rubbing everyone down with sunscreen, we are ready to see the animals.

All the animals were moving around and active even though it was sooo hot!

We saw an elephant cooling off and spraying water all over.

The monkeys were swinging all around.

Well, the gorilla wasn't active at all! He was laying up against the glass. LAZY LAZY LAZY. He was smart enough to be in the shade.

 Then off to the giraffes. They were kinda far, but we got a glimpse of momma and baby. So cute

 

  

Carson dug in our bag, got a water bottle and his blanket and went across the walkway, found a brick and took a seat. I guess he needed to rest.

Nana and Granddaddy enjoyed the zoo with us too.                                  

Carson carried his samuraizer throughout the zoo and it kept ringing! Carson looks at me and says...

"Wait a minute, Samurai need me"

Sweet sweet brothers.  Moments like these make all the things that stress me or aggravate me just melt away.

Caleb and Josh roped a tortoise!

This was Carson's favorite.

 

Carson- "Can I wide that zeba?"

me- "No, we can't ride the zebra, silly"

Carson- "Well, can I watch Racing Stripes movie in my room when I get home?"

I guess if he can't ride, he will watch someone else that can! Ha!

Back home to play, play, play.

The ultimate power ranger samurai!



4th Blowout!

We celebrated the 4th at the Annual Firework Festival! As soon as we arrived Carson saw his very best friend Brennen. So off he went with Brennen! Don't you just love the shirt of a 2yr old that is the 4th child!

Caleb found his future car.....hope he has a big savings account that I don't know about!


Nothing better than a blue snow cone.

Carson also enjoyed his "blue snow ball"

Wayne's favorite...although he said it was "no carowinds" it was edible.

Josh in a hamster ball over water

Ava and her friend Nya take their turn in the hamster ball!

Josh and his friend and our new neighbor Noah in a fight to the death jousting match.

Caleb takes his turn on the mechanical bull.....

hmmmmm. On the ground!

Ava down the big slide.


And to end the night.....finally the fireworks!


The fireworks were great. Although they were very loud, we enjoyed them. Well, most of us did. Carson was still with his friend when they started. He is very scared of loud noises. So with the first BOOM, Carson started crying. Brennen's mom picks him up, he continues to cry and get louder and starts saying "I want my mom". She was a little worried she would be questioned in the kidnapping of this child she is holding and crying that he wants his mom! Crises averted, I was found.

$60 later we were tired and ready to go! Carson said "I am ready to go to my house and take a rest!" Well said little Carson, well said!