Anyway, Joey's birthday is July 16 and Savanna's is August 8. Since they are only 3 weeks apart, and Savanna is still so young, we decided to combine their birthdays this year. So as a combined birthday present for the two of them, we got them a new swing set!! I didn't take a picture of it though.... Anyway, the old one was just too small. Joey had certainly out grown it, and also with my babysitting it jsut wasn't enough for the kiddos I watch. So we got a nice big wood one that can swing 5 kids at a time and it has a gang plank, rock wall, and slide. I think I enjoy it as much as the kids do!!
For the kids parties we did kind of a party weekend. On Saturday we had a party for just Joey with all his little friends. The weather cooperated beautifully!! We had a pool...
A slip-n-slide...
A bounce house... (thanks Cheryl!!)
a pinata,
Ice cream cake...
(this is the kids patiently waiting for cake...)
And of course the new swing set! I think all the kids had a BLAST and Joey really loved his party!! This was the first 'friends' party I put on for him, so I was a little nervous, but it went really well!! For the record, the kids that came were Jack (one of my friend's sons), Reagan (who was Joey's little 'girlfriend' in preschool! lol!), Carlie (a girl I babysit), Kaili, Ethan, Jonah, Quinten, Caden, Evan and Nathan.
And then on Sunday we had a 'family' party for both Joey and Savanna combined. It was kind of nice to only have one party for the two of them! All the commotion done at once! Anyway, we had a wonderful dinner of hot dogs and homemade macaroni and cheese and I made some more ice cream cake for it! Plus we still had all the fun outside stuff.
Here is Joey blowing out his candle...
And Savanna...
Both of the kids got some seriously COOL presents and toys! I'm not including all those pictures, but they both loved everything they got and I had a huge project to organize them all! I swear these kids are sooo spoiled and loved by our families!! Here is one present picture I had to include. My sister got her this bug and Savanna just LOVED it!! She kept giving it kisses and wouldn't put it down, even to open her other presents! What a goof.
And here's my cutie hiding under the present table. She's thinking hmm.... If I look cute enough no one will notice me stealing the toys!
This is my sister Amanda, my mom, and my sister Julie. I don't think Julie meant to 'display' the hot dog, but there it is!! he he. I love these women.
This is my sister Julie with her boyfriend Shawn and his daughter Calysta.
This is Garrett, Kraig, Meemaw, and Linda - 4 of Joey's favorite people!!
