Happy Birthday Nana!

Happy Birthday Nana! 

Here is the second half of our day, spent at my Uncle Marc's for swimming and food. It was a very wonderful afternoon of family, food and fun!

Here is my Papa, with Mark, Rich and my Mama.

My Aunt Kim with my sister.

The kiddies swimming!

Getting warm!

Here are my Nana and Papa with their five kids:

from left to right - Chip, Kim, my Mama, April and Marc.

These five kids have had lots of kids themselves, my cousins, some of whom are my very best friends! And now some of those kids have had kiddies of their own. 

My Papa and Nana are the best top of our family tree!

 I adore this family, we have the greatest time, so much laughter and love! 

Happy Birthday Nana!

Happy Birthday Mark!

Happy Birthday to Mark! My husband and my Nana share the same b-day, so in the am, we as a small fam had breakfast at our favorite spot, The Coffee Shop. In the pm, we headed over to my uncle Marc's house for dinner and swimming. (Post to follow.)

The men in my life.

My sweet girls.

Mama and Papa Rich

Pretty Ruiz Girls!

And the celebrations continue . . .

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HANNAH! 

We were able to celebrate Hannah's birthday at a full size gym! The instructors took the kids and the parents went upstairs to watch from the balcony. (This didn't please Ella too much as you'll see later.)

Here are the kiddos lined up - and Ella not facing in the right direction or paying attention. :)

Following the instructor to the next place to play!

Here is Ella crying and brother trying to console her, to no avail. I had to go down TWICE to get her! She said she was frustrated (wrong use of the word) and she missed me. At least I know she loves me!

Future gymnasts . . .

Happy Birthday Hanz!

Kar and Ella longing to go back down - well maybe just Kar. He really wants me to sign him up for gymnastics! Is that better or worse than when I signed him up for dance class?

My dear friend, Candace (Hannnah's mama) and her fab hubby, Brad, in our background.

Miss you.

Happy Birthday Ava!

Our birthday celebration month continues with little Ava Beans! She turned TWO! We had a nice birthday party at a park with a bounce house (it's the thing to do). :) 

Mimi and Ava

Kar and Ava up above.

My love . . . xoxo!

Aaahhhh! Babies! My gorgeous friend, Kristin made it out to Gilbert with her two newborn twins, Olivia and Sebastian. They are too amazing for words and I was so happy to see them!

Uncle Marky with baby Jon Nordling.

Of course there was a pinata - I only showcased a picture of Isabella hitting the pinata because she did WORK on it! Holy cow, she was going at it crazy like! It was so cute! 

Ella and Bella

Grandpa Steve and Kar

My Nana and baby Jon

Ava ditched her skirt and was playing in her new high heels. Awesome outfit, Beans!

Me and my babies - not babies anymore, I guess, but still all mine!

We love birthday and parties and this month has been so fun with all of the celebrations! We are so lucky  to have so many friends and family that have a birthday this month. Happy Birthday, xoxo!

Jaspyr's Third Birthday Party

Happy Birthday, Jaspyr! We celebrated Jaspyr's third birthday at a park with a fun bounce house and great food. Jaspyr is my kids' sitter's (Shanna) daughter. I hate calling Shanna a "sitter" because she is so much more than that. She is like a second mom to my munchkins and I could not do my life without her. I am so grateful for her! Anyways, we all gathered on Saturday to play and eat and to celebrate Jaspyr! Crazy, sweet, little, Jaspyr, Happy Birthday!

Karsten in the bounce house . . .

Ella and Jaspyr in the bounce house!

Happy Birthday!

Mmmmm . . . .

Mimi and Ava

Shanna and Jaspyr

Happy Birthday Gracie and Ella!

Happy Birthday to my sweet, sweet girls! Well, I only actually gave birth to one , but the other is just as special to me. Here are the girls as newborns; Gracie is on the left and Ella is on the right. I can't believe we just celebrated their FOURTH birthday! But we did and we ROCKED it OUT! See below!


Marky transformed the backyard into a stage!


I made guitars out of boxes and paint stick stirers, painted them and attached rubber bands as strings. (Thank you to Aunt Mimi for helping me with that!)






Here come the rock stars!












Aunt Jessie and Little Ava


My best buddy . . .


Check out these tats!


The rock star princesses!


Grammie knows how to ROCK!


Beautiful girls . . .


And MY Nana and Papa were there to celebrate also! I was so happy they could come!


My Mama and Rich


Gorgeous Jessica


Uncle Mark and Ava, they are best buddies!


Here the kids are decorating the guitars with jewels and stickers. So much fun!





Make a wish!


Mark and I asked Kar if he wanted to paint his fingernails. At first he yelled "NO", but then I showed him pictures of guys on the internet with painted nails (like Dave Navarro and Steven Tyler) :) So he said yes after that. I thought he looked very edgy.


Ha! Ava tried on every piece of Ella's new dress up clothes! Such a ham!


All in all, it was a wonderful day. I love setting up these parties, these girls are everything to me and I want them to have the best birthday ever!