Happy Birthday to the Heap Babies!

August is both of my children's birthdays so this yearwe decided that they were a good age to let them have a party together. A few months before the party we talked about themes and let the kids decide. As soon as we said Pirate and Princess Party they knew that was it. We'd do pirates for the boys and princesses for the girls. Now immediately I had a vision in my head. And I knew that vision would be a lot of work for mom. We made a castle and a pirate ship. We made tutus and wands for the girls and bought tiaras. The boys got pirate vests, eye patches, bandanas, and swords. I also found these really cute cake pop ideas online and of course had to do it. But the day of their party made all of that hard word totally worth it.

We had their party in grandma and granpa's backyard. We let them invite a few friends from school. They were so excited come party day. I think this is one of their favorite birthdays yet. The huge thank you I got from both of my babies after this party was over was the best thing ever. Happy birthday Elena & Landon!

Landon's a Dancing Fool

So I've posted before about how much my son loves to dance. Well tonight we were on the sofa watching "So You Think You Can Dance". All of a sudden Landon jumps up and starts jigging. There was this tribal type song on. He was basically trying to match this guy on tv move for move. I was laughing so freaking hard I couldn't stop. When it was over I rewound the tivo and played it again thinking certainly he wouldn't be able to do it again. Well he did. I ran to the bathroom and made Barrett get out of the shower so he could come watch too. I bet Landon must have done this for at least half an hour with me rewinding the same dance over and over again. By the time I actually thought to get out the camera and video him, he was starting to watch more than dance and try to do some of the harder stuff the guy was doing on the tv. When he woke up this morning the first thing he asked for was the dancing show to be put back on. I realize most of you will not think this is nearly as funny as I did but I couldn't stop laughing. He was certainly entertaining us.

Carnival Pics

These are the pictures we purchased from Carnival. They took a boatload but we settled on only a couple. The first is from us leaving New Orleans. The second is us on a casual night. The third is the kids. And the last one is all of us on the first formal night. We all wore mauve and black in some way to match all of the others.