Bryce's party and Mike

As some of you know by reading Allison's blog, Josh's older brother Mike and his wife Beatriz are here visiting from Georgia. They arrived on Saturday and will be here until Friday. We are so glad that they have come for a visit and have fallen in love with Beatriz. If you'd like to see some pictures of Mike and our family activities go check out Allison's blog. In order for me to post pics, I have to blog from Josh's laptop where all of our pictures live..and I'm too lazy. Due to the fact that most of the family activities seem to be "spur of the moment" as opposed to planned out and some of them are not "three-two-year-olds" friendly, we have not been able to participate in everything. "Spur of the moment" is hard to pull off with 5 kids. And yes, I'm sad and complaining about that. I guess that's another thing to consider when "planning" on having triplets.

At any rate, on Sunday night we had everyone over for Bryce's 8th birthday party. Technically his birthday is not until the 13th, but we are going to be out of town next Saturday and wanted to plan it when Mike and Beatriz were here. So Sunday night my family and Josh's family came over for fun time of being together, eating and playing in the water. Bryce decided that for his birthday he wanted to get a pool...a big pool. So we asked everyone to chip in for the pool and we bought it prior to the party. All the kids had a blast playing in the pool. Again, for pictures see Allison's blog. Again, I am lazy.

Bryce chose to order a cake from costco rather than have me make one. I was okay with this. One less thing to do. In fact, the party really could have been sponsored by costco. "All" we did was get the house and yard cleaned up. Because Bryce is such a special child, he did not want the standard 'Happy Birthday' written on his cake. What he wanted was, 'Enough talk, Let's Fight." I think it's from some x-box game they've been playing. We compromised on 'Enough talk, Let's Party'. Also because I'm a super great mom, I forgot the candles. Josh decided to encourage the "future photographer" that is coming out in Bryce and ordering him a new digital camera for his birthday. He loves it. And I love all the pictures that now exist of me. You know, the ones with wet hair, no make up, and angled from a 8 year old height. I've never felt so gorgeous.