Happy Birthday Ashlyn and Austin.
Ashlyn wanted a party with her 3 best CO friends.
Mary, Madi and Clarissa
Madi moved back the day before, we were so excited!
Ashlyn's agenda:
(her choice) Unlimited Boondocks Fun, Red Mango,
smores by the fire. (under the stars :)
and end it with a sleepover.
decorate~decorate~decorate~
I decorated the house for under $10.
Love to make the house festive for the kids.
I like to keep it up their entire birthday week.
Austin is having a party in Utah with his 4 pack cousins. (in June!)
Austin is having a party in Utah with his 4 pack cousins. (in June!)
Plus he went to Utah with me last week to see his buddies :)
He came along with us gals to Boondocks with Ry and Jake.
They had a blast together.
My hubby is one of the kids when it comes to this stuff.
Ry loves hanging with his boys.
The girls came over right after school on Friday.
We ate pizza and breadsticks and headed straight to Boondocks!
The girls were so excited to go play.
The agenda:
The agenda:
2 rounds of Laser Tag, water boat rides, slick track, Race car track (twice),
18 holes of miniature golf, and then use all their tokens!
The girls l o v e d the water ride.
They got soaking wet!
It was such a pretty night! warm, blue skies :)
(notice Delicate Arch in the pic above! Love it. Utah fun)
The girls just floated around and sprayed eachother!
oh so cold.
But that did stop them! (to be a kid again:)
Look at this pic! They are WET! soaking wet.
The boys especially liked the golf course. It was a fab-u-lous!
Jake running over the waterfall.
Mace has a great left hand swing and almost beat everyone :)
18 holes of fun.
There were many water attractions and fun things to make the golfing tricky.
The boys did the slick track and race track over and over.
They all loved the Laser Tag too.
Then they used their tokens and got over 500 tickets.
Jackpot.
The girls bought Ashlyn more gift w all the tickets. cute.
what a fun night.
We stayed from 6:00 to almost 11:00 at night!
Good thing Red Mango didn't close till midnight.
We were off for the best yogurt ever!
We LOVE Red Mango.
ohhhhh so delicious! (and healthy!)
The girls came back to the house and put their jammies on and then they started laughing and laughing. I don't think they ever stopped.
We could hear them downstairs laughing and playing around.
Their bedtime: 5:30 a.m. (!)
Good thing Ry and I were so exhausted from the big day that we hit the
pillow around 1:00 a.m. and slept the whole night.
I woke up at 6:45, ran my 10 miles and then Ry and I took
Jake to his last soccer game.
They won! wahoo!
Then I came home (the girls STILL sleeping...at 10:30)
woke them up for nutella whip cream waffles!
the best ever.
Austin and Jake had football at 11:00 and 12:00 (won semi's!) so we had
to hurry so we could to their games.
I fed the girls and off we went.
(ash opening her gifts)
Ashlyn gave each girl a "party favor"
A silver heart shaped necklace.
She loves these gals. And I, as a mother, am so grateful
Ashlyn has such cute friends.
Good good friends. They are always so kind to eachother.
They share the same moral and values and they
just enjoy to be together.
That night we had a huge welcome home party
for Mary and her family!
family bbq and games.
It rained us out! No fun. So we hit a movie instead and planned the big party for the following weekend.
What a great birthday week we had.
I sure hope the twins felt loved.
Ry and I gave Ashlyn a Kindle and gave Austin an ipod touch.
We took them to Cafe Rio for their favorite lunch.
We did our own cake and icecream and game night too.
12 is such a big year! goodness.
They are going to Young Women and Young Men's this week!
wow.
I love it.
Happy Birthday you two!
Sure love you!
xo!
