you're my ROCK....

A few days ago was Nana's birthday.

We were not able to visit her nor was she able to visit us.

But we will see her in a few more days. 

Until then the girls are working on a TOP SECRET project for her garden.

artist's at work

Sweetheart's imagination is soaring

lay out plans and shading options....

Princess Fifi is working on the smaller details of the bigger plan....

Cookie reminds you--
 "This is TOP SECRET! Do not reveal our surprise.......shhhh."

It's a happy day with paint on their hands and love in their hearts....

cake, ice cream and bandaids

Having many children means having many friends.

Having many friends means attending many birthday parties........

This afternoon we're at a birthday party for little Miss Jessie at Roller Skate City.

♥I love this sepia image of Princess Fifi♥
As if she stepped into a time machine to the 1950's

It was exciting to get out on the rink to skate to some of our favorite tunes.

(click here to see the last time our skates were in ACTION)

We brought our own inline skates but we were given the chance to try skating on four wheels as well.

 (the orange wheeled rental skates)

"Easy Peezy Lemon Squeezy" says Cookie and Sweetheart.

Can you spot Cookie and Sweetheart??
**hint: Cookie is center / Sweetheart is right

Bam loves to skate at me full speed
 and last second swerving off to the side
Oh Bam!!

 Princess Fifi has such graceful falls............they shall be known as "Fi-Falling"

We had a great time with tons of laughs on wheels.

                                                      Happy Birthday Jessie!!

family FUN at the family FUN center

Today we were invited to a birthday party for Cookie's little friend, Miss Jordan.

cake was yummy.......

There was punch, cake, and lots of tokens to play the games in the nickel arcade at Hinkle Family Fun Center.

The kids had fun playing various bouncy ball and balloon games to earning tickets for prizes.

WOW! Cookie won over 5,000 tickets in one arcade game....

It's definitely debatable on the message we may be sending our children when they have hopes of winning the jackpot in the arcade.....

 eh??

But it's all in fun and games right???

oh geez.....
After the party was over we decided to explore the grounds.
That's when we found laser tag!!

See that red light to the left........... that's someone trying to tag me!!!

After a dozen or so rounds of laser tag, we decided to call it an 

EPIC night out.