Grammy's Birthday!

We celebrated Grammy's birthday at the Lafayette Reservoir with a family walk and lunch at Gott's in Walnut Creek...

Hannah's 10th Birthday!

Hannah is double digits!  We celebrated with a tea party! Hannah thoughtfully chose tea cups for her girlfriends from Mimi's collection and we created a menu based on all her favorite tea party treats!  The girls played games-Emmy and Julia volunteered their beautiful faces for a make-up application contest.  It was hilarious until I realized Emmy had nail polish being painted on her face! 😳 They watched a movie and did cheer stunts and begged for a sleepover!  Best kind of birthday party is when nobody wants to go home!  

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Officially 10!!

We got crafty and made traditional British fascinators.

Pretty sure the girls were engorged by the time they went home haha!

Fresh-faced Emmy!

They make this look beautiful!

                                           

Lots of laughter!

We played two truths and a lie on the way home!

Arnold Getaway

 The Sackies had a change in their travel plans to Ohio over Christmas so they decided to make a trip to Arnold and invited us along!  We came just after a massive snow storm as were blessed with an abundance of fresh powder!  We played in the snow outside of our cabin as well as a snow park. It was a blast!!

It's all fun and games until someone gets nailed in the throat!

                                       

My igloo, a safe haven for those who need to recover from snowball trauma.

Airborne!

Curled up in their little "homes" in the bank.