Italy vs America
Aiden's baseball team had an extra game this week against a local Italian baseball team.
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| It was a great game. The 2 teams were pretty equally matched but in the end they won. |
Whitney's 11!!
Whitney has been counting down to her birthday for the last 2 months. :)
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| She was up and ready for school earlier than usual. She couldn't wait to go to school on her birthday so she could wear the "birthday hat". |
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| I can't believe she is almost as tall as me at age 11! |
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| She requested pizza instead of cupcakes. Her friends seemed pretty happy about that! |
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| I did sneak in one cupcake just for the birthday girl |
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| The boys sit on one end and the girls on the other.... lol! |
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| These kids had me cracking up at recess! They kept coming up with different poses and asking me to take pictures of them. I was pretty impressed with some of the things they came up with! |
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| They're all making a 'W' for Whitney |
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| Whitney was loving all of the attention! |
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| Kayla even got into action for the party and got groomed.... she looks so pretty! |
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| After school we told Whitney we wanted to give her her birthday present early, before all the kids showed up for the party |
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| I bought my coworkers used bike because Whitney has outgrown hers. This was really just a decoy "present", but she genuinely seemed happy about it. |
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| Then we told her to ride her bike down the driveway leading her to the back of the house, where her REAL present was waiting! |
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| Jeremy and his friend spent the entire day setting this thing up. |
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| A well deserved break! lol! |
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| Whitney and her friends were sooooooo thankful and happy!!! (Kayla too! lol!) |
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| Next was setting up our "movie theater" for the party. I had to include a picture of Jeremy's MacGyver skills.... He creates a great sound system when he puts the large speaker inside the cooler. After our last outdoor movie party I accidentally fried our Blue-ray player. We had a DVD player but Whitney wanted to watch the new Jumanji and that was only available in Blue-ray, so we borrowed a Blue-ray player from one of our friends. We set everything up and tested it out and everything was working perfectly! |
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| As kids came in they had some pizza and decorated a T-Shirt while we waited for it to get dark enough for the movie |
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| The kids were very creative! |
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| Singing happy birthday while Jeremy protected the flames from blowing out on the cake |
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| So many nice presents!! |
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| All the kids were saying "start the movie already!" |
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| After we loaded it up and got through the previews we pushed play on the Blue-ray player and it would not play. Nothing we did would work. We did not have a remote and could not play a movie without it. So, we hooked up our DVD player and tried to play a different movie but the kids didn't like any of our other movies. They all voted to go inside to watch Jumanji on the TV. I couldn't believe it! After all of our hard work to set this up just to have it fail because of the remote. So sad..... |
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| The kids were all good sports about it though and we were able to watch it inside. |
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| Good night!! |
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| Breakfast of champions!! |
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| Sweet girls! Now... go home! lol! :) I hope you liked your birthday Whitney! |
