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Kid's party at Bounce U

Yesterday we had Timmy's "friend" party at Bounce U. I was not wild about this preferring to just have family parties with a few friends, but Timmy has been asking ALL YEAR LONG! He even asked Santa! So here we go-we decided to go with a budget party-hey we're not made of money here and it was a good deal-since we brought our own cupcakes, napkins, plates, & goodie bags it was quite reasonable! The kids bounced for an hour-30 minutes in each room and then they had cupcakes and games for an additional 30 minutes. We could invite up to 15 kids-this is what irked me most! We invited 13- (Timmy & Austin were the additional 2) but only 7 RSVP's! One was a no, but 6 did say they were coming. I even asked my sister & brother to come with their kids.......hmmmmmm...they never responded either. Of course, they were last minute invites, so we'll let that part go.... verall Timmy did say it was the BEST party ever!

Bounce U pictures...cont.

Timmy's Six!

Timmy's 6th birthday was on Saturday. On Sunday he said "I'm six-take my training wheels off, please". Keep in mind that he was actually able to ride without them last year, but would only do so on Austin's tiny bike (a beginner style that has no brakes) so you get the idea...Now he has definitely grown-the seat should actually be raised, but we'll hold off on that for a few days till he's confident!

Happy Easter!

This year for Easter we stayed close to home. Ray was working and Austin had a few tests we needed to have completed to make sure he's healthy. He's been having some trouble since the pneumonia, but he's doing well.

The Easter Bunny arrived with the usual assortment of chocolate bunnies, tootsie rolls, starburst jelly beans and books...yes folks, books! The kids also got lacrosse sticks, which they will need a lot of practice with, and ARE NOT allowed to play with IN the house (ask Timmy, his went into "time out" after only a few hours!). The kids also had an egg hunt-more like a race!

On a side note-I couldn't find ANY peanut butter eggs.......anywhere! What is Easter without them? So I found an easy recipe for peanut butter eggs- just icing, peanut butter, some mixing & shaping(mine looked like a blob-who cares!), freeze overnight and drizzle with melted chocolate the next day. I used chocolate icing (they recommend vanilla, but we had chocolate whipped icing in the pantry and when will I ever use it?). I also put mine into cupcake liners (Disney Cars-'cause that's what I had in the pantry-yet again!) Well........they came out GREAT! Tasted just like the kind you buy......maybe even better! Sorry no pics of these-they came out like a blob, remember?

The Crazy(& slightly disturbed) chippendales....

This is disturbing (not really), and sort of hysterical too! We are the dancing Chippendales.....& yup, I'm a guy in this video! Hey my kids were female elves in an Irish jig for St. Pat's day so I guess this is their revenge!