"Happy! Happy!"

Since our girls have birthdays a mere 3 weeks apart, and while Maya is old enough to refuse elbow pasta in favor of rotini and crocs in favor of sneakers, she still doesn't care about sharing things like birthdays with her big sister.

In response to all this birthday celebration, Maya walks around the house, shaking her crazy head of blond curls, throwing her arms in the air saying "Happy! Happy!"

And so it was that on a warm November Saturday, we were lucky enough to have some of the people we love most in the world (minus several who were out of town) come and celebrate our girls turning 2 and 5.

We gave out individual bottles of hand sanitizer to keep sickness at bay and set off to plunge germ-free little hands into bowls of pretzels, chips and popcorn.

Maya and Anna, as usual, looking like a couple of old ladies.

Charissa and Emerson.

Brevie chilling away from the fray on Grampy's shoulders.



Love this pic of Sam and Emilie.

The Smiths. I said, "I love this picture of them." Ella replied, "I love this picture of Matt." I'm beginning to think that both our girls have a crush on Matt. Too bad girls, he's all Ange's.

Even Coconut enjoyed the festivities.

But really the best part? To which Ella said, "This is the best present I've ever gotten!" Nope, not a pony. A bounce house!! A gift from the girls' grandparents for them to keep (and to make every parent's dream of a padded room that much closer!) and set up in our bedroom for the occasion. As we stuffed our end tables in the closet and smooshed our bed up against the wall, I thought, "Who does this?" Ummm.... we do....

Such fun...