Happy 2nd Birthday Adam

Meme and Pap arrived Friday night to stay the night.  They do not come down unless there is a party or appointment and this time it was a party on Saturday. But after Gloria came home, we had a little party for Pap to celebrate his birthday that was earlier in the week.  Baylor of course helped with the candles.  

Happy Birthday Pap!! We are glad we were able to celebrate it with  you!  

Saturday morning was the last day of swimming lessons for this session.  After swimming class we were heading to Adam's second birthday party, the real reason Meme and Pap were down.  We were going to arrive a half hour late to the party but I was not going the change his swimming class again.  He was excited to go to class and exited to have more spectators in the hallway who were excited to see him swim!  

Mr Nate was putting the boys through their paces today as he was assessing them to decide whether they passed or had to take the class again.  He swam all the way across the pool without the kick board.  He would not do the diving board but would jump off the starting blocks.  I went over to see if he would do the board and told him I jumped off the diving board the first time when I was three.  It is one of the memories burned in my brain, I can see still the teacher in the water below me.  

Amazingly he passed the class in one session!  I asked if he was sure and Mr Nate it was my discretion.  I said he was the teacher and I respect his decision, I was just in shock as he has never passed a level in one session!  Way to go my little fish.  

We headed straight over to the birthday party in time for pizza and snackies.  Baylor, who used to be on the fence on pizza and would never touch a pepperoni, has changed his tune on both.  He ate three pieces and a ton of veggies.  And while he is not much into trains anymore, he was happy to color Emily.  

Adam was partially interested in the cake, but mainly just for the Thomas on top.  

Two of Adam's great Grandmas.

One great Grandpa and his daddy.  

Adam is only two so he would get wrapped up in one gift and not interested in the next. His mom ended up opening everything for him, which is what I did at Baylor's second birthday as well.  It was a very Thomas birthday and we bought him a small travel set.  

 And as usual, the other kids just wanted to balloon fight.  Thankfully there was a partial wall between the room and doorway and they kept the balloons mostly out there.   Baylor was right in the thick of it.  

I had been working on bringing out Baylor's summer clothes and hung them out to dry in the sun while we were out partying the day away.  While I love hanging clothes out, I don't always love having to bring them in!! I don't know why, but the unhanging is not as much fun as the hanging up.  

Happy Birthday Heather

We headed to Heather's campground to celebrate Heather's birthday.  Her husband is apparently not good at planning birthday parties, or even getting her a cake at home apparently, so she did the planning and there ended up being three cakes and cupcakes for her.  I made an Angel food cake and served it on our grandma's cake plate.  

My parents were there, as was her dad and step mom and her step brothers and their families.  

We had the Angel food cake first with my sparkler candles.  Grandma and Grandpa loved Angel food cake and there was usually one at their house, on her cake plate with the metal cover.  Heather usually makes one when her dad is home but said for some reason this year she did not.  I am glad I made it then. 

Little Lucy is not so little anymore but she is still a sweet puppy girl!  

Connor, Baylor and Brigid had a good time playing together and call came around when cake was being served.  

Well, Baylor really just wanted to toast the marshmallows.  Which he is pretty good at now.  

Cake number two.  I had picked up some decorations and party whistles at the Dollar Store on the way up so it would be much more festive!  John may not be good at parties but I am!  

And the third cake was an ice cream cake.  Who does not love ice cream cake?  

Charlie wanted to make sure his mommy got her birthday lovins this year.  

He learned that move from Murphy.  

I love bringing Baylor here, he gets to play with the kids and we don't have to be helicoptering them the whole time.  This time there was a lot of family there to help with them, take them to the park and ride bikes.

Somehow I just helped with the cake.  

A Busy Day, to Say the Least. But We Made the Most of It!

Today was a busy day to say the least!!!  I had arranged with the swimming school to have Baylor attend the early class at 9:45 to 10:30 so we could still make it to Dallastown for the Aunt's Meeting.  While we were late, we still were there for plenty of time.  Baylor got to play with Eli and the boys had a good time together as usual.  They have a very long rope swing at their house and Baylor was not afraid of it this year.  

Eli had the play house cleaned up for his little cousins and Baylor and him had fun on it as well.  I had a good time talking and eating with the family!!!  

We left around the usual time but had to go straight home and get ready for a wedding.  Megan and Jamie thankfully had planned their wedding for 4 PM so we were able to do everything we had planned for the day and not miss anything.  We had to go a bit early because I had the wedding cake and needed it brought inside before everything started.  Megan was talking to me about the wedding planning last month, the week after my parents anniverary.  Since we did not get a bonus this year, they had to cut back on extras for the wedding.  A wedding cake was one of the extras.  I showed her a photo of the cake I had just made and said I could make it for her as her wedding gift.  She loved it and was fine with it being my gift to her.   

I could not get any photos of the ceremony from where we were sitting so I stole some from FB.  Shhhhh.

Addyson made a lovely flower girl.

She had bought cup cakes from Sams and that was all they were planning on serving.  This was my first tiered cake and it turned out pretty nice I thought.  She said she received a lot of compliments on it as well.  We did not stay for the cake cutting as it was getting late (long day remember) but apparently she smashed the cake in his face and he then did the same.  

The kids were given sparkling apple juice for the toast and Baylor thought that was super cool.  

We did a few clinks together.  

And Liz offered to get a photo of us together.  A toast to the bride and groom!  

Tamela and family were at our table and the kids really wanted to dance.  After the Bride and Father dance we went up there. Baylor acted all shy but he really wanted to dance with Madison.  

And he got in a few moves with the bride as well.  

He was very fascinated during a line dance and when the song was over did one of his own.  I don't know how to slow down the play back because it is really cute!  

Getting his grove on with Madison.

The club was on the river and right across the river was the steel mill that I could see out my third floor window in my old house in Steelton.  I always wondered what it looked like back there and what was on the other side!