Birthdays

Well, we have made it through the birthday season for our family. Cristian turned two on May 28 and Gabriela turned six on June 1. We had a small family dinner party to celebrate on Cristian's birthday, although I don't think that he had a clue about what was going on. Then on Sat. May 31 Gabriela had a birthday party with some of her friends in the neighborhood. She invited ten kids and five of them were able to come. We had a big water fight party. She got a new slip and slide and the kids played on that. We had a competition to see who could slide the fartherest and Emma Tueller won that. I also bought a bunch of water guns for the kids to play with. I hung an old bike tire up on the fence and the kids had to shoot at it as if it were a target and the kid who hit the bulls eye won a prize for that. After that, the kids just played together in the water. I think that they had a good time and to end the party Gabriela opened her presents and the kids had cupcakes. I'd say it was a pretty successful first friend party for Gabriela.On Sunday we had one more party. This was a party for the family and grandma Kathy, grandpa Brucey, Jacob, Melissa, Benji, Zach, Nate, Celeste, Alex, Tifani, and Dempsey all came to this party. We also celebrated Jake's birthday as he turned 30 on the 25th of May. Once again it was a lot of fun. We had dinner, opened presents, and ate cake and ice cream. Too bad that Nate and grandma Kathy were not feeling good. But it was fun anyway. Now I don't have to think about birthday's for several months. Yeah! I wish that I had pictures of the party to post, but Erwin took the camera with him to California so there were no pictures:( Oh well.