On Saturday we celebrated the twins' first birthday with our family. We had a blast and so did the kids. It all started really on Friday...John and I ran around doing errands, ordering sandwiches and balloons, getting last minute wrapping paper, and cleaning the house (which lasted right up until the first guests arrived Saturday morning). The party was to start at 12:30 on Saturday, just after the kids got up from their nap and ate lunch, but since all our family drove from out of town, people started arriving early. Which was fine...I put them to work. I had my mom frosting the cupcakes, my BIL wrapping gifts and Betty (my step-MIL doing dishes) all so I could get dressed and out of my apron. Once everyone arrived, we all enjoyed lunch and then got busy opening gifts. My nephew, Noah, helped pass out gifts and by the end of it all kids were joining in the fun. At least at this age, no one cares if your cousins help you open gifts. Although they did care that they tried to play with one of their gifts...a bounce and spin zebra. Abby and Jake started crying with Ethan and Paige wanted their turn at sitting on the zebra. But they quickly got over that when Grandma BB gave them a ride around the house in their new wagon! We actually did really good on toys too...we asked for a lot of summer stuff like a pool for the backyard, some floats, swim suits, etc, since we have a ton of toys at the moment. I can't wait for it to warm up so we can take them swimming now!!! We'll have to break in the wagon this week too. I think it's supposed to rain Monday & Tuesday, but hopefully Wednesday will be nice and we can take it out for a test drive.
We ended the party with cupcakes since they would be messy and I opted for green icing. We were a little past nap time so the kids were almost asleep by this point (especially Jake). They gobbled up their cupcake and really did pretty good not to get covered in icing. After cupcakes, we tried to put them down, but they were really wound up so it took them a good hour of fussing to fall asleep. But they finally did.
Check out some of the birthday photos on the left!
We ended the party with cupcakes since they would be messy and I opted for green icing. We were a little past nap time so the kids were almost asleep by this point (especially Jake). They gobbled up their cupcake and really did pretty good not to get covered in icing. After cupcakes, we tried to put them down, but they were really wound up so it took them a good hour of fussing to fall asleep. But they finally did.
Check out some of the birthday photos on the left!
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