This past weekend we loaded up the car (lightly this time!) and headed down to Houston for our Nephew/Cousin's first birthday party. We got there late Friday (just before 11 PM) so aside from a random picture of someone's Nike, nothing super exciting to share about Friday...other than it meant we got to get a decent night sleep and prepare for a full day of fun ahead...
...once everyone was up and at them Saturday morning, we headed over to the birthday boys house, not to play but to pick up his sister. Loli and I figured it would be (a) nice for the party throwers to be one kidless while trying to get ready and (b) the girl cousins would really like the extra time together. After a few bounces on the trampoline while the dad's switched the carseats, we headed out to get donuts and then to the splash pad.
Loli brought us to the CUTEST donut shop. Only problem was that it wasn't really a donut shop...rather it was a French bakery/café. Um, yum! The girls thought so too...and thankfully too as it was not a cheap breakfast by any means! 5 pasteries, 3 milks, 1 tea and 1 coffee set Loli back almost $30...ouch! However, the girls were fans (everything was gone) and I was definitely a fan of this sign in the café...
After a few bites, the girls just couldn't resist the splash pad or the very large green space. It was two hours of pure happiness!
At times, they even had the splash pad all to themselves!!
And of course even with water fun, no morning in our family is complete without some combination of gymnastics and ninja practicing!
After everyone looked like raisins, the girls asked to go to the park. However, despite having fun, they only lasted a short time as it was HOT. Thus, we scrapped our plans of grab lunch and going to another park, and instead grabbed some lunchables and headed home, thinking that all three would fall asleep on the drive. We couldn't have been more wrong. Talk about second wind. Thankfully, were able to get in an hour of some much needed quiet time.
And then it was off to the party...a Super Hero party! The favors were absolutely adorable...super hero capes made out of white t-shirts and a bunch of fabric markers so the kids could each customize their own.
There were also a ton of water activities and of course cake. Cake for the birthday boy...(think he was a fan?!?!)
And cake for everyone else.
After the party had pretty much wrapped up, we headed out to get the girls some pizza and hopefully into bed at a decent time. Somewhere during dinner, Pops taught Little Miss how to ambush the mint basket. Think she's a quick learner?
Sunday morning we woke up, packed up the car, hung out a bit and then headed home -- where we had to cram in a full weekend's worth of errands into just a few hours. One errand that the girls look forward to each week is helping the Husband with his garden. This weekend was no exception.
And then it was time for dinner and off to bed, which shockingly wasn't much of a struggle. But what was a struggle was waking both of them up the next morning. I think these pics below were both taken at 8 AM Monday...so much for getting to the office early to start the week!!
Think they had fun?
What about you, how was your weekend (and yes, I realize that this question is a few days late!)?
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