Birthday Week

Lucky for Emerson he was able to have 3 birthday parties this year.  Below are some pictures to share.  We love you so much Emerson you bring us more happiness than you could ever imagine.  Thank you for always being my "cuddle bug."

Emerson requested homemade pizza and rootbeer for his birthday.

I don't know who was more excited, Lily or Emerson.

can you tell he's excited...

He also wanted to go bowling...fun, fun, fun!

Birthday Party in Murphys.  We had so much fun celebrating his actual birthday with Cousins, Aunts and Uncles, and Grandparents.

Third birthday celebration in Thousand Oaks.  Thank you everyone for your thoughtfulness.

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Lily's Birthday Week...

What a fun filled birthday week!!!  It all began with Grandma and Papa “M,” being here the week of Thanksgiving, we had so much fun!   Lily was able to open presents and she even blew out candles on a piece of pumpkin pie topped off with frosting and sprinkles.  Since this was her first year in school we thought it would be fun to have party and since her good friend’s birthday was just a few days before Lily’s we decided to have a joint birthday, pizza party.  On the day of the party Grandma and Papa Tasha flew in from CA and we put them right to work.  We had lots of fun and ate too much birthday cake.  Below are some fun photos to share….

Lily's birthday invitation

Fun thanksgiving birthday.

Ready for the party

Silly Emerson wanted a picture too

Yummy Cake

Pretty Princess with her birthday cake

Not sure why Emerson looks like he's boxing....

Having lots of fun with balloons

Piñata full of Play dough, Band-Aids, glitter glue, and of course candy

Busy making Pizzas

As you can see we made pizzas during the party

Time to Eat!

Nice friend from church and school



We were lucky to have a soldier at the party who made the kids balloons ALL night long. 



Fun playing musical chairs



Blowing out candles



Happy eating birthday cake



some exciting new gifts

Emerson and Lily with new pajamas

making jewelry with Grandma from Lily's new birthday gift

Results from Jewelry making

opening Birthday gifts

Birthday at the mall, after school Lily wanted to go to the mall and read books at the bookstore and go to the park.

At the Mall

Eating lunch with Lily at her school on her actual Birthday.  We all had the school "Holiday" lunch. 

Mona (mom,grandma) and Elise

Poor Bryce was STILL at church while everyone else took a nice Sunday walk along the Savannah River.

Lily being silly little goose

Grandma and Papa with kidos.

Emerson posing for the camera



Emerson happy to be inside the warm car.  Grandma and Papa gave him this costume and he wanted to wear it everywhere we went.



Princess Lily in her new jammies waving bye to Daddy on his way to church.



Happy Halloween!

Thankfully, Fort Gordon had trick-or-treating on Friday since we didn’t want to go on Sunday.  This made the Halloween celebration extra long, but fun.  On Friday, Daddy took the kids trick-or-treating around our neighborhood.  Afterwards we indulged ourselves with the yummy Maygren tradition of doughnuts and apple cider….and boy was it good!  Saturday we had fun making Grandma Jean popcorn balls and caramel apples and have been enjoying them ever since.  Saturday evening we got another candy fix (like we really needed it) by trunk or treating at our old church building.  Sunday we ended our celebration by having dinner by our carved pumpkin - candle light.  All and all we had lots of fun and now have way to much candy in the house.