Someone Is 6 Years Old!

I'm finally getting around to posting pictures from Lydia's 6th birthday party. Her birthday was May 19 and we actually celebrated it the Sunday before. Lydia was so excited about her party and she was anxiously awaiting Steve and me and her other grandparents arrival. About 20 minutes before we got there she crawled up on Jay's lap and fell fast asleep. She had exhausted herself with anticipation! So when we arrived we found her sleeping. However, she soon woke up and was delighted to find that we were all there and ready to party. Lydia likes everyone to wear party hats at her birthday party so we dutifully put them on. I didn't have my camera then so didn't get any pictures, but I saw Kristen snapping some of all of us around the table with the tiny hats perched on our heads!

Lydia loves outdoors and gardening so Kristen made a garden cake for her. Isn't it so creative?! Here we are singing Happy Birthday.

As everyone was crowding around Lydia and snapping pictures of her and the cake, I heard this little voice calling "me picture, me picture!" I turned to Hannah and said, "did you want your picture taken too?" She said "yes" so I took this picture of her and she was happy (even though she kept her finger in her mouth)

We love celebrating birthdays with our grandchildren! The next birthday that this family will celebrate is that of a new little one the middle of July. So exciting!

Bounce House

What kid doesn't like a bounce house? But how many kids have their own bounce house? One Wednesday evening when we were having supper together, Shawn made the comment that he thinks it would be cool to own a bounce house for Awstin. I'm not really sure if he was serious, but Jeremy remembered this and when he saw on Facebook that a local company was upgrading their bounce houses and had several for sale, he told Shawn about it. Shawn checked it out and now owns a bounce house! As you can see from the picture, this is not a small one, but a large one complete with a slide along with the actual bounce house.

Shawn, Melissa and Awstin picked up the house one Sunday afternoon and brought it to our place to set it up for the first time. Awstin jumped and hopped around in excitement and the adults were pretty excited too! At that time Steve's mother was staying with us for a few days and so she and I went out to watch the action. Shawn put a blower to it to pump it up but it wasn't quite powerful enough to get enough air into the castle peaks so they hung down and the whole thing just couldn't quite stand up to full capacity. Awstin didn't mind. He slid down the slide anyway, but I was half afraid the house would collapse on him.

Shawn and Steve were able to find a second blower to put on it and it puffed up to its proper size and Melissa and Awstin were soon bouncing away. Josh & Julissa and Jeremy & Megan stopped in to admire it as well (sorry, I didn't get Jeremy and Megan on the picture). 

Jay & Kristen's children were anxious to play in the house so a couple of Sundays later they came for the evening and Shawn put it up again and all the grandchildren had a great time bouncing and sliding. I'll even tell you a secret. Kristen and I actually got in the house too  (if you see how small the opening is you will know that is a major accomplishment for a 57 year old woman and a 7 month pregnant woman). Obviously I didn't take or let anyone take pictures of that! Anyway, we stayed in the bounce house for quite awhile with the children and had a great time. When we were finished we slid down the slide to exit and we both survived!

We decided that when Awstin goes to school he will be the most popular kid in the class. Who doesn't want to be friends with someone who has their own personal bounce house!