Grandkid Quilt

For my moms birthday this year, I made a quilt & we had each grandchild slap on a hand print.
We are only missing one. Little Collin was born October 9th, & lives too far away to have gotten it done before the birthday.

Cassidy Birthday

Happy Birthday to my Cassidy

She chose a Princess Birthday.

Grandpa also joined in.I don't know how much longer I will be able to have Chournos family parties at my house-- this family is getting big!

Cassidy had all her girl cousins sleep over- Yup, that was a long night filled with cake & pop. We tried tiring them out with a little "Duck Duck Goose"
It was such a beautiful night! We took pictures of all the girls next to the princess of their choosing.
The colors of the sunset were amazing!
Trying to fit everyone in the family room.
The next day we took those who stayed the night along with my sister & mom to the sweets candy factory tour in SLC. It was pretty cool. They don't do much with chocolate, so we will be taking a tour of Mrs. Cavanoughs next.
Stockton picked some delicious sour balls. Cassidy got Orange sticks because it was her b-day. She chose wedding mints for her treat. Because it was a birthday party, all the kids were given a free bag of taffy. I am not usually a fan of taffy, but they had a caramel one that I bought a pound of.

All the kids with their goodies!

A snippet of duck duck goose.

Stocktons Birthday

So Excited!

He wanted a mario cake.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TRENT

It's official. I am now the parent of a teenager!

Sure am glad he cut his hair.

Love ya Trent!

The official piñata breaker.

Such a man

He knows how to handle a wheeler.

AZ 2008. Look at that form.

He must like this shirt. Of all the pictures I went through, I posted 2 of him wearing this shirt.

All the other pictures, he was either wearing a Rainey Homes T-shirt, or Patriots attire.

Happy 13th Birthday Trent.

Your Family loves you!

Mom & Dad B-day dinner

A kid free dinner with the family to celebrate Mom & Pop's Birthdays.

I thought I had ordered this (What Nic got)

This is what I ended up with- A mushroom jack Fajita, a perfectly delicious mistake.

Me, my sister and my mom.

Monte & Clint

The guests of Honor.

We got 2 of these for the table- would you believe we had a hard time finishing off 2 plates of ice cream & brownies between 13 people.

Everyone that came minus Clint- He is taking the picture.

Cassidy's Birthday

Cassidy dressing up the neighbor.
Ava decided to cool off in a tub of water.

Nothing like hanging with family.

It was pretty windy, we had a hard time keeping the candles lit.

Kids doing the tie-dye Hope every ones turned out cute!.

Cassidy's cake- Step by Step

Why we had to hand carve it--

the molded bear cake didn't work out.

Ta Da, thanks for your help Kim!

Cakes

Ryder & Lenny had a surprise party on Saturday, and I was lucky enough to make the cake! No, no sarcasm, I offered to. I haven't made any cakes for a while, and was looking forward to it.

I made little dance silhouettes out of frosting, a challenge for me. 9 dance positions for her 9th birthday.

I made little dancers out of fondant- I wanted to put faces and hair on them, but time was of the essence.

Ryders I was most proud of, a baseball diamond. No problems here. ahhh, nothing like a fine finished product.

So.... I got to the party, dropped the kids off to park elsewhere. Trent took in the baseball cake. Me, I grabbed the gift's & the dancer cake..oops, oohhh. %&!$# ... It was salvageable, I fumbled with it in my car & it bumped the front seat. Grrrr. the positive, I didn't spend time on the faces- would have made it even harder for me to see it damaged. Really it was a corner of the cake-- yes I know it is a round cake, but still, if you were to divide it into 4ths, 1/4th of it was damaged. I felt bad, but at least there was still cake. Had I dropped it on the road, I would have had an 8 year old moment, and cried about it. Instead I took a deep breath, & took my walk of shame to the house, shoulders sunk, you'd think I was about to be grounded for lying to my parents the way I felt. Then the kids didn't make much notice of it, & were calling who got to eat what dancer.-- Okay, not so bad then. & Plenty of cake. Didn't miss the scuffed part.