Parties!

But first... I just wanted to sneak in a couple photos of my cute kids!...

A couple of weeks ago we went to a birthday party for Grace's bestest bed: Anderson. He turned 3 and had a Cars birthday party, which was so well put together by his parents!! I was very impressed. One of our friends helped make fondant Maters and Lightnings to put on top of the cupcakes. ADORABLE!

The Redd family with their cute birthday boy and "Baby Grace"! We just love them. :)

They held the party at a park with a fun playground so the kids could just play and play to their hearts' content. Then they strung up a homemade Lightning McQueen piñata and all the kids got a couple turns going at it. Grace had lots of fun trying.
It wasn't breaking easily, so they finally let the kids just attack it and get the goodies inside. Grace was way too passive to get into the throng of 3+ year olds to get anything. I tried to get her involved but she was perfectly fine watching.
Four years ago when all of us who are graduating this year moved here, these three kiddos were the ONLY kids born at the time: Leila, Reagan, and Brig.

Then... 4 years later... here is our group of kids (plus a few friends, and missing a couple babies). Crazy right?! Talk about "multiplying and replenishing". ;)

Top row: Paisley, Jonas, Reagan, Chad, Grace, Abby, Leila, Will, Max, Logan K.

Bottom Row: Addie, Holden, Beckham, Eliza, Zeke, Anderson, Brig, Jaren, Greydon

Grace and her buddy, Anderson.

A couple hours after Anderson's party, we met up again at another park to celebrate our friend Jordan's birthday. He will be graduating with Ryan in Pediatrics as well and we are grateful for the Larsens and their friendship. It was SUUUUPER windy that evening, and Grace was starting in on another fever (the 3rd one that week), so we didn't stay long. We were able to get a photo of the ladies at the party. :)

Casie, Robyn, Rachele, Jamie, Melanie, Claudia

Alisha, Emily, Paige, Erica