Birthday weekend!

Happy Birthday Judah!

Well I cannot believe it but yesterday my sweet little boy turned 2 years old! We had such a great time this weekend and yesterday celebrating Judah's birthday. We started the preparations and celebrating on Friday night. Stevie's entire family came over and we had such a good time! Stevie cooked out on the grill for everyone while the rest of us split up birthday party preparations. Carmela. Louie Sr. and Monica took to hanging crepe paper and balloons all over and putting up Mickey silhouettes on our windows. Louie worked hard on creating the Mickey Mouse face for "pin the nose on Mickey" game. Kathy diligently prepared cupcakes and the cake and then coached me through decorating the Mickey Mouse cake-it was so much fun and I was pretty proud of how it turned out! Natalie helped hold the fort down with all the kiddos as they played and she so kindly did diaper changes and put Levi to bed for me when it was time. It was such a family effort and great fun while doing it. It truly reminded me of the blessing it is to be part of Stevie's family and how loving and giving each member is. We could not have pulled off the party without them! And that is just Friday night-they each helped us again in so many ways during the party itself as well.

On Saturday the party was great fun! It was so nice to have so many of our family and friends there to share the special day with us. The kids had fun jumping in the bounce house, playing in the playroom and outside (it was 80 degrees!), eating hot dogs and mac n' cheese, hitting the piñata and of course, eating cake and ice cream. Judah got so many great gifts and had so much fun with all of his friends.

After everyone left we all took a family nap-NICE! Then we topped off the day by having a "family date". Stevie and I took the boys to a coffee shop in Murphy where they were having live music. We had coffee and snacks, played Scrabble and listened to music. The boys did super well, especially considering we were there almost 2 hours and it was in the evening, close to bed time. We really had a great time watching Judah get into the music, dancing and pretending to play the drums!

Monday, the 5th, was actually Judah's birthday. We spent the day playing a lot with him and just relaxing at home. We left his party decorations up just to add to the fun! Monday night we went with our immediate family to Chuck-e-Cheese to celebrate. Although all the kids had fun, I think some of us "big kids" had even more fun. Stevie and Louie battled it out on basketball, Kathy and I competed several times (to our own embarrassment) on Dance Revolution and Monica, Kathy and I got some cute sketches done of us on the Chuck-E-Cheese sketch a photo booth. Judah, Carmen, Sofia, Tifani and Estefani had fun playing as many games as they could while chowing down on pizza! And of course, Levi was just along for the ride for it all!

All in all, it was so much fun celebrating our little man's 2nd birthday.

Judah, te amamos tanto, nos das muchísimo gozo y felicidad. Gracias por ser el bello niñito que eres. Con amor, Mami y Papi.