Birthday Bash 2010

Saturday we had a birthday party for Jeremy and Kelsey. Jeremy's birthday is in January, so it's been a while, but summer time is so much better for a party! We reserved the Splash Pad again and invited the kids from their church classes, and other favorite friends.

It was so fun to watch them all arrive! Every time someone else would come, I would get all excited!

Kelsey was happy her best girlfriend was back from vacation in time for the party!

I made some yummy food! Too bad I didn't get any of it.
Being a hostess is busy!

The watermelon was perfect!

The chicken salad is my favorite!
We had it at our wedding reception.

Last year I made cute kabobs with strawberries, blueberries, and marshmallows. This year, ambrosia! Pretty much the same stuff, much easier! And so tasty too!!

Jeremy had a blast!

The kids had fun together.

And the adults were all excited to be there. LOL

I had some technical difficulties frosting the cupcakes so they weren't quite the awesome presentation I was hoping for.

I had frosting up to my elbows and on my swimsuit too! I was sticky for the rest of the day!

But the kids enjoyed them.

And the adults deemed them edible as well.

Speaking of technical difficulties, how many men does it take to light a match?

But it only takes one little man to blow all the candles out!

Kelsey was sung to next, and she loved it!

She decided she needed a little help from her brother to blow out the candles. No worries, he's a pro!

Mmm...birthdays are delicious!!!

Finger-lickin' good!

We were blessed with so many presents! I had asked our guests to bring their favorite books to share with us, and they delivered! We got over 75 new books for our library!! Awesome!!!

We sent everyone home with little cards that Jeremy had printed out, thanking them for coming.

Thanks to everyone for making our celebration so fantastic!

OC Fair

So every year the OC Fair rolls into town around this time and it's usually blazing hot there. It's a lot of blacktop, a lot of people, and just a lot of stuff going on. Daddy and Jeremy love it so I go with the family and then resolve to never go again. Well this year, it's been unseasonably cool around these parts and we got $1 tickets so I decided to join the family and go to the fair! We chose a Friday afternoon and invited the grandparents to come along. Friday afternoons mean $1 food tasting and $1 rides. Next year I need way more time to taste all the $1 wonders in the food section. Oh so yummy! I ended up trying...

Cinnamon Roll (my favorite!)

Chili Cheese Fries

Cheesecake drizzled with Chocolate Sauce

And other various fried things,

Onion Rings, Fried Zucchini, French Fries, Waffle Fries.

Meanwhile, Daddy and Jeremy were in line for the Crazy Coaster!

Jeremy liked it!

He got to play lots of games, which he found to be more challenging than he wanted. I was glad we weren't going home with 50 gigantic stuffed animals however. ;)

Jeremy and Daddy went on this ride that made my mama heart a little nervous!

Then we all went on a superman-type flying ride. It was fun!

And what was Kelsey doing all this time?

Twirling on stools...

Kissing her stuffed chicken Grandpa won her...

and trying to escape out of her stroller.

Grandpa and Jeremy decided it was time for ice cream!

Check out that sassypants with her tongue out!

Good thing she's so dang cute!

We went to look at exhibits and found this cute tea table set up for the kids to enjoy. They loved it!

I went to sign up for the pie-eating contest, and the emcee thought I was so fun that he picked me to be a contestant!
I was so excited!!!!

I got to wear a garbage bag, oh the wonder of it all!

Ready, set, GO!!!

The challenge was to eat 1/2 of a Knott's Berry Farm boysenberry pie in 2 minutes.

I didn't win, but I had the most fun and it sure was yummy!!!

We walked around some more, checked out Weird Al, and petted some animals.

Kelsey was so freaked out by the animals last year. She did much better this year.

Even when they tried to eat her dress. LOL

Grandpa was quite popular with all the animals as well.

Jeremy loved feeding them.

He was up close and personal.

And just as snuggly as he is with everyone.

We all started getting hungry for something besides fair food so we headed to the Spaghetti Factory in Newport Beach. There was a little wait so Jeremy entertained himself with the camera.

Look at that meatball! Everything was so delicious!!!

We had such a fun time at the fair with Grandma and Grandpa!

I just might go again! ;)