Janell turns 30!

Janell turned 30 and we celebrated with a Surprise Party!  

Velva and Eunice (Janell's aunt and mom) roped me into putting together a fun time with some of Janell's friends and family. Yippee!

I, of course "had" to put up some decorations and had a great time making her a girly cake (a purse with a coin purse as well) and brownies in the shape of high heel shoes.  

Some of the guests ate a bit early!

Standing around waiting for the guest of honor to arrive!

Dinner, of course, was Happy Meals from McDonalds!  We were soooooo lucky...McD's switches off from Happy Meal Boxes to Bags and they had just gotten in boxes....bags just aren't as cool!   Here's Derek and Julie all set with their order!

Here's the Birthday Girl!  

Hopefully Janell got her hamburger ketchup only! *grin

Justin said he hadn't had a Happy Meal for over 20 years!  What an Oldy Moldy!

(Oh, I made a caesar salad to offset the McD's.)

Janell's brother Jon and his wife Jen and boys: Bowdrie and Carsen came all the way from Montana!   I didn't get any pictures of their totally cute boys.  Too bad!  You'll just have to put up with this one of Jon.  

Chip helped with picking up the order at McD's...he got a free Big Mac!

The best part is getting the toy in the box!  Perfect party favors!  

The polly pockets were a definite favorite!

Wait a minute Jolyn, how did you get another one?! *grin

Some had more fun at the party than others! *grin  

Happy 30th Birthday Janell!   

Danny is...

Walking now!  

Danny

Here are a few of our "little" one. He is growing sooooooo fast!

Danny was named after 3 Georges. Troy's Grandpa George Burgess, George Dissmore (my adopted Grandpa), and George Richardson (another of my adopted Grandpas.) Here Danny is with George Richardson.

Here's a little bedhead! He is such a happy waker upper.

Getting ready for meeting, Danny all of a sudden was really quiet so I peaked in on him in the playroom and this is what I found!

Trick or Treat!

My little Cowboys were invited to Kenmore Story Time on Wednesday, by "emlee" and "jawfun." They listened to some great Halloween stories, learned about the "Jakalanter" and trick or treated at the check out counter where they recieve some Yummy treat.

We spent Halloween evening with some of the ones in our birth class group. Here are the treats I brought!

Here the group of kids that were there minus the two babies. From the left: Joe, Danny, Owen, Lucy, and Paige.

They went trick or treating to about 5 houses. After the first house...the kids were pumped up! Joe gave me his horse cause "I need to hold my bucket of treats carefully!" They couldn't believe that all these people were giving them candy! Troy would put Danny down and Danny would walk up holding out his hat for candy...it was totally cute.

Sara and Troy hosted all of us and we had a wonderful time! Thank you! It was so much fun to catch up with everyone!

Plachinda!

My family continued the tradition of holding a "plachinda" baking day at Ginny's house on Saturday. Porsche and Bryan upholding tradition didn't show up til lunch time. Unfortunately, our camera battery was low from trick or treating so I didn't get many pictures. Here's Grandma with the caboodle of them. The kids did help Grandpa make the dough and then the "adults" put the plachinda together. A good time was had by all!

We turn our backs just a moment on Grandma and the next thing we know she's teaching Samantha, Joe and Cea how to play poker! Now their college funds are being used to help pay for her kitchen remodel!

Whoops

So blogger didn't post them in the order that I published but did it backward *groan...so you get to see the party in reverse!   Oh well...

Our Family!

Got to get a quick snap shot of the family in! Not the best one ever...but it's us! :)

Opening gifts

Danny had lots of help opening gifts.  He received some really neat things.  Joe is loving all the presents too!  He says, "I love ferthdays!"  He knows his is in January, but he doesn't know what a January is.  *grin  Some of the gifts included: a "tool set", a constellation turtle night light, trike, apron, book, clothes, truck w/ motorcycles. What a lucky boy!

Mircea and Casper wanted to buy Danny a black suit with a silver vest to wear to meeting and to his Aunt Jennifer's wedding in January...unfortunately the suit wasn't available so Mircea got to work and fingerpainted him one. How cool!

Good thing the truck came with two motorcycles!

Thank you everyone! We had a delightful time! The only downer was we invited too many piggies and didn't have very many left overs! *grin

Singing the song and Carving the piggy!

Troy called his folks, so Grandpa and Grandma B. could join in on singing "Happy Birthday" to Danny!

Here's the three little piggies! :)  Danny likes to "hog" the bed...so we call him our bed piggy!
Danny enjoyed about half of his party.  *grin  The other half was a bit tramatic!  He wasn't quite sure what was going on and whether he should be enjoying it or not.  There were quite a few tears.  

Got the butcher's knife ready!

Lots of helpers!  It's amazing how they all appear when they hear the word "cake"!

Danny and the "snout." He ate it with a spoon!

Who came?

We're so lucky to have family nearby. :)

Aunt Lainey and Uncle Gentry

"Aunt" Janell

Our NEW cousin "Casper!"

Grandpa and Grandma W.

Uncle "Y" (Joe loves to hold his new cousin).  Aunt Porsche came too...but we didn't get a good picture of her!

Mircea

Danny playing with Alex.

Samantha

Samantha, Grant, Alex, Victoria, Danny, and Joe! Cousins are sooooo much fun!

Aunt Ginny came and so did ?????   

Setting up!

We settled on a Piggy theme and added a bit o "farm" to it!  I designed and made the cake myself.  I'm so proud of it!  :)  It is made out of three bundt cakes.  The tail is the candle...we just needed one...so this was perfect!  The "mud" is chocolate frosting.  I personally think making the cake was the best part. *grin  

We love Usborne books at our house and "Woolly" is one of our favorite characters.  So using the corn starch packing peanuts I licked and I stuck them on a box and then drew woolly.   

Getting ready is half the fun!   Here the house is all decorated and ready!  I just used "farm" stuff from the kids' books, toys etc. and placed them all over the room.  I had no idea we had so many "things".  I also picked up a bouquet of balloons...isn't the piggy cute?!

Danny turns 1!

Here's my little boy!

I can hardly believe that my baby has turned one year old. He's a "big boy" now.  Of course we had to celebrate...so we invited family over and wow! A busy, loud, fun time!

Here's what the invitation read: 

 The first little piggy went to the market. Doesn't he know that Amazon Fresh delivers? The second little piggy stayed home...how boring! The third little piggy had roast beef. That's a good start, but what about CAKE! The fourth little piggy had none. This could be you, if you don't read on! And the fifth little piggy? Well, he was smart, he went wee wee wee all the way to Danny's house for a fun first birthday party! You should too! We will be serving BBQ Chicken (no pork of course!) and then we will pig out on Dessert! See you Friday, October 10, 2008. (dinner begins at 6:30pm)