Blowing his candles out was not difficult....there was a breeze that made it almost impossible to keep them lit!! It was very breezy, but terribly hot! It had been overcast all day, when we got to the pool at about 5:00 and put the cake out on the table, the sun immediately came out and was beaming straight down on the cake. After a little bit, I noticed the icing starting to slide off the cake and down on to the cake board. At that point, we put the cake back in the car with the A/C blowing full blast as cold as it would go!!

Our lifeguards were so much fun!!

Peek-a-boo!!

I think everyone had a great time despite the oppressive heat. We have typically done our swim parties in the morning. This year, the only way to reserve the whole pool was to do it after pool hours in the evening. It was definately hotter in the late afternoon...whew....

C. picked a movie theme for his party this year. He chose "How To Train Your Dragon".
Of course he wanted a swim party. That was kinda hard for me since for the last few years we had our swim parties at Ms. Fran's pool. He even said to me one day, "Mama, can we please have my party at Ms. Fran's?" All I could say was "Me too."
We ended up having our party at our school's pool. It turned out fine and the kids had a great time!!
There were some unruly dragons luking around that needed to be trained...

Swords were provided in order to tame those dragons. Miss Priss is showing her bubbies whose boss. As if they really needed reminding...

This poor little dragon never knew what hit him..

I think I fixed it.....not sure...now to work on font size...so aggravating.

Happy Birthday sweet C.!! 8 years old...hard to believe!
Just a few highlights for now...I've got to figure out what's wrong with the background on here...

For the past few weeks, we have had an unwanted houseguest. We finally found him tonight, dead of course. Here's how it went down...
I was awakened at dark thirty one morning when Thing 1 came and crawled in bed. Jamie went to get in bed with Thing 2. As I lay there trying to get back to sleep I kept hearing an odd noise in the hall in front of our room. I got up and stood in the doorway trying to figure it out, when all of a sudden I saw a figure about 3 inches long crawl from one side of the hall to the other. I stood there wondering what on earth it could be. Now, realize that it is dark thirty and the only light on is the lamp in the living room...on the other side of this hall. So, what I saw crawling was actually a black lump. I thought at first it was the frog that the kids play with that lives under our basketball goal. I felt some relief at that thought and started into the hall to pick it up and put it outside. Then I stopped. I realized that frogs don't crawl..they hop. Ok. Not a frog...mouse? Nope. No tail... Well, this whole time I can hear it crawling around behind a cabinet. it comes out from under the cabinet and crawls toward the door where I am. I bent over a bit to try to see it better when..... ITS WINGS POP OPEN!!!! Don't think bird folks.....THINK BAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
UGH!! I grabbed the door and jumped and closed it. Then immediately opened it up again and it was gone! Wonderful. I stood there paralyzed by fear. I didn't want to walk out there for fear it would attack me.
So, I ran to get a towel. I rolled it up and stuffed it under the door so it couldn't crawl in to get me. Then I sat on the bed for the next couple of HOURS wondering what I was gonna do. Should I go wake Jamie and risk waking the offspring as we looked for it? Should i just wait til morning?
I finally decided to go wake Jamie. So, I stood in the doorway, said a little prayer that NOTHING would fly onto to my head and RAN to the other side of the house.
Jamie and I spent the next hour looking for the bat and couldn't find it. I kept looking down low because I thought one of the wings was injured.
The next day I was on pins and needles all day wondering where it was. The next night i slept with one eye open..this went on a few days until I eventually forgot about it.
Well, last week when I would walk into the breakflast room to Thing 3's toy corner, I would smell an odd odor and then it would disappear during the day and I would forget to tell Jamie about it.
Tonight Jamie was by the toy corner and caught a whiff...He looked in a vase on the second shelf and BINGO!! He found our bat. Of course all the Things came running to see..

While the doggies were off sniffing all kinds of great things, the offspring found this....it was just begging them to come a get a drink..
Thing 1 started it all....

Thing 2 was not going to pass up a drink...

Thing 3 was ready, but not quite close enough...we told her to scoot up a bit so the water could get her tongue..

OOPS!! Too close...

A few weeks ago, we took the furry children for a romp after dinner. We all loaded up on our respective bikes.

Some of us don't have to pedal...
Yes, those doggies are latched onto a leash and are pulling that bike and rider...

I love this pic...all it needs is the theme to "Little House On The Prairie" playing in the background...

They had a great time , so did the two legged children.

Good doggies....

Looks like she's taking a nice little nap huh? Well, guess again....she was in the middle of a meltdown. About what? I haven't the foggiest idea..
She laid motionless like this for quite sometime..

When she finally realized no one was paying a bit of attention to her theatrics, she got up and joined the sand castle construction.
Silly little girl...