Birthday Happiness and Friends Moving Away Sadness

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...OK, that was a corny way to start out a blog post, but that is how this week has felt. It is birthday week in our house. Nathan's birthday is today and Jack's is Wednesday. We are usually exhausted by the time both birthdays are over-then in less than two weeks we have Father's Day and Josh's birthday. We will NOT be having anymore babies in June.

So, today is Nathan's birthday but it was already day 3 of birthday celebrating. We had one party Thursday night with our friends who were moving away (more on that later) and wouldn't be around for the birthdays. Then we had Nathan's friend birthday party on Saturday evening. It really went well. We had ten little kiddos in our house (well, that doesn't count Dallen since he didn't eat cake or anything) and considering we had that many kids and cake, glitter glue, stickers, ice cream, koolaid, pizza, etc. I am surprised how well it went. It could have been a disaster. The birthday party theme was Imagination because Nathan is big on that and I knew that if we picked a theme even a week or two in advance he might have changed what he was interested in by the time his party rolled around. So this way if Monster trucks were his passion of the moment or rockets or dinosaurs or rocks or anything else, I could be prepared because the theme was so flexible. We had all of his friends dress up in costumes for the party. Nathan decided the day before that he was being a superhero which was great because the costume was nice and easy!! The cake was a rocket which turned out great if I do say so myself. We did a "creative imagination" project-they decorated little birdhouses and we played pin the tail on the astronaut donkey. Here are some pictures:

Here is the rocket cake and the birthday boy about to blow out the candles

This is Josh's masterpiece. Nathan wanted to do pin the tail on the donkey so Josh created an Astronaut donkey (and had a little bit too much fun thinking about puns about donkeys that are astronauts but I will leave you to figure that out on your own):

The whole gang of kids:

Some of the kids in their costumes:And Jack the Train Conductor:Then today for his birthday he got to go to breakfast with dad, then open presents, then Grandma P. came to visit for the day and we went to the park for a picnic lunch (he had Subway pizza-his choice) and then just hung out. We played games and had cake just the 5 of us tonight-although again poor Dallen got no cake.

Now we get a day off to rest and then launch into the Jack festivities. His bday is Wednesday and party is Thursday. I will blog about those next time.


As for the sadness part of our lives, our best best friends just moved away! Wah!!! Ok, so we are moving away too in just like 6 weeks or something but in the meantime I miss my friend Nanci so much. Nathan is best friends with her son Trey and she also has a son Jack's age so we did everything together! Oh and she is pregnant with boy number 3-Dallen's future friend. (Oh and we do like the dad Ryan too!) :) And now they are gone and I feel totally lost and lonely. Luckily they went to California, although they are in the Bay Area so they will be about 7 hours away from us, but at least we will see them sometimes. I am finding out that it really stinks when your friend who you did everything with and talked to everyday moves away. I don't even know what to do with myself now. Guess I should start packing maybe. Ho hum. Guess life will go on. I guess it is good that I have so much birthday stuff to see to this week!