Party at the Schoolhouse

My family can find any reason to throw a gathering, but this past Friday we had two very good reasons to celebrate! Two of our three children have summer birthdays; John Martin turned 1 on June 30th and Paige will be 3 on Tuesday {July 14th}.

So, we headed to the schoolhouse for pizza, birthday cake, presents and fun.

This is the kindest "almost" three-year old I know; tender, sweet, caring, compasionate, and cute as a little button.

We didn't tell her she was having a birthday party, you can imagine her excitement.

She also didn't know there would be cake or presents or birthday hats. Neither did her sister.

There were several "good sports" who donned hats for the occassion.

Equally as exciting as the hats were the candles {all of them... Morgan was in charge of adding them to the cake so we ended with many more than we actually needed}.

John Martin squeeled like a little pig {and made a face like one too} when we presented him with his birthday candle!

And the poor little man got his feelings hurt when we took the cake away to cut it... or maybe he noticed the candle was pink and the frosting was purple!

He got his cake and Cousin calmed him down!

After the cake and ice cream George took the kids out to play in the corn. I couldn't find them anywhere and then a little head popped up!

I think we may plant our entire back yard in corn, it's been very entertaining for the kids! Although, I'm certain, ours wouldn't look anything like this.

Then we came in to open presents...

JM's fish bubble came from Ashley Eiler of Blessed Be the Name & Favorite Laundry children's clothing lines. It might be the sweetest thing he owns and just wait 'til you see what the girls got {I'll show you soon... we brought them with us}! I examined the construction with my "hawk eyes" and they are so well made, lined, and absolutely beautifully constructed!!

After the kids opened presents we went outside to play wiffle ball and roll around in the freshly mowed grass.

Our weekend has been so wonderful and included an trip to the Dairy D...

plus much more that I'll report on soon!