Parker's Harry Potter Birthday Party

Parker with his friends: Carter Steere, Tanner Golightly, Kyleigh Posvar, Kinley Hess, and Ethan Becker.  Parker begged for a Harry Potter themed birthday party this year.  He's on book 5 of the series right now. We made his friends their own Hogwarts invitations and they each had to pass through platform 9 3/4 to get inside our house.

Once inside we sorted everyone into Houses with the app from my iPhone.  The only one sorted into Slytherin House was Elijah.  How ironic. :)  Afterward we painted the wands that chose the child and had a potions class. 

Seriously I was at a loss for his cake this year.  So there is the golden snitch Harry caught with his mouth his first year as Seeker and a put together Harry Potter lego set.  Lame, I know, but it tasted good.

Making his wish...

My poor asthmatic kid.  It took three blows to extinguish his eight candles.

His friends then toasted him with their "butterbeer" and then started devouring their cake and ice cream.  While Melissa, Rebecca (she flew in the night before) and I dished up our cake we heard Parker propose a toast.  Everyone raised their goblets and then he said, "To the best friends a kid could ever have...cheers!"

Oh no he didn't!

Oh...   yes...   he...  did....  This boy loves my makeup bag.

I feel like this one could be a mug shot.  Actually, he did a good job on the one eye.  Look at those eyelashes.

"Please momma... I'm so sawry!"

In other news...my daughter and sister are WEIRD!

Summer Sport Camps

Alexia did a week long volleyball camp this summer and Parker went to a basketball camp.  They both really loved them.  No pictures of Lexi playing, but there were awards and a slam dunk exhibition the last day of Parker's camp.  The guy in the picture with Parker is Zabian Dowdell and he plays for the Phoenix Suns.

 

 

Jack and Parker on their last day of camp.

Last Day of School 2011

No more pencils! No more books!  No more teachers' dirty looks!  (And yes, I'm aware you can see her ribs through her shirt.  I really do feed my kids.)

The kids get to wear whatever they want on the last day of school.  That's another cause for celebration.

They quickly moved from celebrating to showing off their muscles.

I'm so excited for summer vacation too!  Time to sleep in, catch up on chores, and then do some fun things with the kiddos.  The picture below is from last years last day of school.  Man it goes by too fast.

We Like Visitors!

Darren's brother Nolan had a work conference in Scottsdale for a few days.  They called us Thursday night and said they were headed over to see us.  We ordered up some pizza, then busted out the stuff to make s'mores again.

My kids love their cousins.  They soaked up the love from Liv and Clara.

Thanks for stopping by guys!  It was so fun to have you for an evening!

Isn't he yummy?

I could totally eat him for breakfast!  Those cheeks are delish!