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Today’s Scenic Saturday photos are party scenery! We celebrated Rose and Virginia’s birthday here at our house today (their house isn’t big enough for our party!). Everyone had a great time! Felice took a bunch of photos of the kids, so I took photos of the “stuff.”

Felice did a great job planning this party. The girls wanted an Indiana Jones theme, so they had Indiana Jones decorations, costumes, all the party favors (mostly handmade by Felice – sorry I don’t have photos of those – I didn’t get a chance!) were IJ themed…they even got to watch part of the original movie! They all loved it!

Even though I did almost nothing to prepare for this party, I’m exhausted!

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We celebrated Austin’s birthday today. I can’t believe this little man is 11 years old already. He was just 2! He’s such a sweetheart. He loves to help people, is cuddly and huggy, and finds humor in everything. I love you, Austin Ray!

Here are a few of my favorite shots from the afternoon…

Wishing.

This one cracked me up.

There are a few more photos of the party on my family blog.

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Happy birthday to me a day early! My sweet husband had a bunch of my online friends shower me with birthday gifts! I got to open present after present after present today! Zowie! What a wonderful surprise! Here’s a peek at one photo…

Here’s a link to the album on Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=55697&id=1128907594&l=ddc063268c

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It’s day 100! I’m so pleased that I have made it all the way to day 100 and I haven’t forgotten a single day! This project (and this year!) are passing so quickly!Today we celebrated Nathan’s 7th birthday. I can’t believe my first birth baby is 7! Seven years ago right now I was in labor and just hoping this baby would come OUT! He was turned sideways and making me much more miserable than he had to. But all that misery was well worth it. Nathan is an amazing, funny, clever, adorable kid (no bias here). It was a 14-year wait to have my first birth baby, and it’s incredible to think that it’s already been 7 years since then! Happy birthday, Beanboy. I love you!

1. Nathan didn’t appreciate our version of the birthday song.
2. This beanbag toss game was hard! The holes are so small!
3. I loved how the row of goodie boxes looked.
4. The tire roll was a challenge for the smaller kids, but they all had fun.
5. This game was the Tire Toss – the kids tried to toss their beanbags through the tire as it passed by them. Only 3 or 4 made it.
6. Nathan got some great gifts, including Madagascar Kartz for the Wii.
7. Yummy chocolate cake with Boston Cream filling.
8. Happy Speed Racer Birthday Nathan!

(This fun storyboard template is from CoffeeShop.)

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Today was a very busy day. We spent the morning getting the house cleaned up (well, sorta) and then spent the afternoon having a birthday party for Dale. Apparently it all went well…everyone seemed to have a great time, and I didn’t have to duct tape anyone to a chair. Success!

This last shot shows the Light Saber/Balloon Champions of the World!! These two kept their balloon in the air longer than anyone else! Whoohoo!

Day 349

We finally got to celebrate Andrew’s birthday today! We went to Qwivals again. The kids really love going there, but I think we’ll do all at-home parties next year, just for something different. Here are a few snaps from the party.

I had a hard time enjoying the beginning of the party – Caleb is sick today and couldn’t go. He stayed home with Fancy. When I left he was sobbing his little heart out and saying, “I want to go to Qwivals!” It was terrible! But he soon fell asleep again, and was fine when we got home.

Here’s a snapshot that I thought might amuse a few of my regular readers/viewers…
 
Does Ken ever get to use his own chair?

Oh, and one more of me and my miserable little man this afternoon…

Day 303

Today was my youngest daughter’s birthday. It’s been a very busy day, so you just get snaps from Kristi’s party. Two parties in 4 days will wear a mommy out! I’m headed to bed!

Happy, happy birthday Punkindoodle! I can’t believe you are 8 years old already!

(Oh, the t-shirt says “Crowns are always in style.”)

Day 300

Zowie Howie! I made it to day 300!!

Today is Caleb's 4th birthday, so we had a party! I only took about 200 photos...and I narrowed those down to 25. My slideshow will only take up about 50 seconds of your life, but be warned anyway. Lots of photos.

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Thank you, Nana, for a great party!

Day 265

Only 100 days to go! I can’t believe I have stayed with this project all this time!

Today we celebrated Rose and Virginia’s birthday at Qwivals. This was their first birthday party ever.

Before we got started with all the fun stuff I took pictures of the girls and the family together…

This was my favorite shot of the two of them.

Here’s a shot of the adorable family. I don’t get Tracy in my sights too often, so I was happy for this opportunity.

I’ll have many, many more photos from the party on family blog. 

Day 218

I didn’t take this photo today, but I wanted to put Austin in the limelight for his birthday, and he’s at a baseball game. So I’m using a photo from several months ago that I just re-edited using Picnik. This photo is special to me because it was the first one I got of him with a true smile. His facial muscles didn’t know how to smile, and he had to learn in speech therapy. He was 9 years old before I got a photo of him with a sincere smile on his face. Today he is 10 years old. I can’t believe he’s already 10!! He’s such a sweet boy.

Day 209

(This is a very long post for my 365 because I just used the same one I posted on my family blog.) It has been busy, busy, busy around Scrivnerburg today!

The day started with Andrew concocting a new recipe…would you like some Fried Honey Dinosaurs?

Dale came up with an invention today – not a new thing for him, but I thought this one was pretty clever. One of these days he will be able to make some money off his inventions! This particular one is a new way to fill a water balloon…
 
The first photo is just to show what the contraption is (water bottle with a water balloon nozzle attached). The second shot shows him successfully filling the balloon without getting everything wet. Please also note the lovely grass behind him. Isn’t that wonderful!?!?

Tomorrow is Fancy’s 16th birthday, so we’re celebrating it today. Ken and I sent Fancy and three of her friends on a treasure hunt around town that ended at Fiesta En Jalisco for dinner. It took us a lot longer to prepare the excursion than it took them to finish it!

After dinner, Fancy and her friends came back to the house to celebrate with the rest of the family and extended family.

Here are most of the grownups who attended (I was busy taking the photo)…
 

Fancy opened her gifts…

(This necklace was a gift from Grandma – she had received it for her 16th birthday.)

(Fancy loves art, so this was a great gift for her.)

And then she and her friends went down to the basement (dark, dark basement – sorry for the grainy photos) to watch movies.

But it wasn’t all fun and games in Scrivnerburg today. Caleb had a crash-and-burn on the sidewalk today, and scraped his knee up pretty badly. It has been a terrible trauma for him.

This injury didn’t occur today (it actually happened 2 days ago), but I finally got a shot that really shows Austin’s poor eye. He and a friend collided on the playground, and it looks like Austin got the wrong end of the collision.

(I’m amused as I look at these last two photos – Caleb and Austin look like blood brothers, but they’re not. God knew what he was doing when He put this family together!)

So there you have it. A very busy day in Scrivnerburg!

Day 174

My sweetie had a surprise birthday party for me today! Yay! We had friends and family over for cake, presents, and fun! Thank you, Kenny, for doing such a wonderful thing for me! The group we had over was just perfect! (Although I wish I had cleaned my house a bit.)

Here are a few photos from the party…

Isn’t this great idea for a birthday cake? Me at 4 and me at 40. I love it!

My darling with his black bow – we wore black armbands to mourn the passing of my youth. (Ken just wore his strangely.)

My mom and my friend’s son enjoying their cake and ice cream.

A photography book!	Hand-blown glass ornaments
A lovely photo frame	This beautiful ring is from my darling husband.

Day 166

We celebrated my Naterbean’s birthday today. We had fun at Qwivals! There are a bunch of entertaining options there, and the kids (of all ages) enjoy it every time. (lotsa photos today!)

If I had to pick just one, this would be it. But I didn’t have to pick because this is my blog!