Ice Skating

We attended an ice skating birthday party for one of our friends. What a great idea! It's all of 5 minutes away from our house and I have never thought of holding a birthday party there. Ice skating is great for all ages. While Steve and Jake skate on a pretty regular basis (Sunday is cheap skate for $4 including the rentals), this was Andy's first go at the whole "walking on ice" thing. True to Andy's personality, Mr. Independent, after one lap with dad he was ready to do this on his own. The kid has no fear... any takers on who that reminds you of??
Andy loved the skating did. For his first time, he didn't do too shabby. However, Steve's back was killing him and he could only do a couple of laps at a time before taking a rest. I think he's going to be feeling it tomorrow. I think it'll be another year before Steve ventures to take Andy back out on the ice on a regular basis.

Andy's birthday bash...

in short was awesome. Aside from being overly tired from all the cooking and cleaning the night before and morning of, Andy had a pretty fantastic party. We had a great turn out for the party at Pump It Up. I had co-workers with smaller children that came and had a lot of fun. I think I have turned their parents off of Chuck E Cheese and onto Pump It Up. Once you go there, you don't go back. It's pretty cool! Afterwards it was off to home we went where Andy went down diligently for a nap (good boy!). And about 5pm (and much sweat equity in between), other folks arrived from party #2. Steve and I made 3 lasagnas, 3 pasta sauces, 2 salads, garlic bread, a fabulous artichoke parmesan dip... you get the point. All home made! It was good eating. Did I mention we also had more cake? :)

Another year older... I hate seeing my babies get older.

Happy Birthday!

Happy 3rd Birthday, Andy-Drew!!

Middle of November... already??

I'm not sure where the time is going and why it's going so fast. Feels like Halloween was yesterday, not 2 weeks ago! I would love to say I'm looking forward to Thanksgiving because of the family and the dinner and so on and so forth. What I'm really looking forward to is rest from work and the daily grind.

Not to help matters, but we are planning Mr. Andrew's big 3 birthday party coming up this Saturday. And it can't be a simple, "come over have some cake"... nope a typical Michelle production. We are starting the afternoon off at Pump It Up an indoor inflatable jumping castle, slide, obstacle course, etc place. A wonderful thing to have here in Washington as our rain has set in for the year. Followed by that 2 hour of absolute joy is a pasta dinner (not the same people) here at the house. Which means/requires a tremendous amount of repair and cleaning. Andy has taken our towel racks as either a monkey bar or rock climbing device... I can't determine which. Either way, they are no longer hanging completely on the wall. And really, no matter what the week is the days between Sunday and Saturday (yep, the working days) our house looks completely ransacked by sticky finger bandits.

We'll be blogging it up come Sunday (or whenever we recover) to give you guys a glimpse of Andy's birthday.