Party Like it's 2009

This last weekend was a busy one. We had two birthday parties for Gavin and Kaylee. The Bowman family came over on Saturday, and the Simmons family came over on Sunday. As you might have guessed from the cute background, the theme this year was puppies. I'm kind of running out of party themes that aren't gender specific, and at some point I'm going to have to get a little more creative.
The advantage to having the parties a day apart is that I could keep all the same decorations up from one day to the next. The disadvantage was that I was pretty pooped by the end of the second one, and I'm pretty sure my kids are still coming down from the sugar high they got from having cake and ice cream twice in a row.

Bear Lake

Thursday afternoon I headed up to Bear Lake with some friends. We stayed there until yesterday afternoon. The water was so clear and blue. There were only a handful of other people at the beach and at the condos we stayed at so it was very peaceful. One of the days I even took a nap! We walked on the beach and collected some pretty cool sea shells. We had lots of snacks and some really good meals. I'm really hoping that the banana and granola bar that I ate will cancel all of the naughty stuff out. We'll see...

Booger Ghost?

My daughter came down with a cold last night. Thankfully colds rarely slow her down, they are just a minor inconvenience. Anyway, she came out of the bathroom with a big smile on her face and said "I just made a booger ghost!" When I asked her what the heck that was, she explained to me that if you put a kleenex over your finger and stick it up your nose, you pull out a booger ghost! So now you know that every time you have done that, you didn't just make your tissue snotty, you made a real booger ghost. Who knew?