Birthday Month at the Guymon House

Wow! Between sick kids and birthdays, this month has just flown by! I now hope we are on the mend and resolve to no longer be a blogging slacker. :)

Anyway, January has been birthday month at out place. Both Bryan and Grace have celebrated their birthdays! Grace turned 2 and Bryan is, well.... old. :) (j/k love - I'll be there, too, before you know it!). I thought I would share some pictures from our celebrations. I had them all in order but I really think that blogger uploads them backwards. Does anyone else have this problem?!? So then I tried to put them in backwards so they would upload the way I wanted, but now they are just backwards and inside out and all messed up. Maybe it's me and I need help - a very real possibility.... anyhoo.....

Grace's Birthday:

Here we are at the *END* of the day about to eat the 'MeowMeow" cake. This was so funny. I had told Grace about a week before her birthday that I would make her a cat shaped cake, so for the next week whenever anyone mentioned her birthday all she would say is meowmeowmeowmeow..... about like that! She is soo obsessed, but it is really cute!

This is what we gave her:
It's a Fisher Price twist and twirl princess palace, or something to that effect.
Anyway, she really likes it!

And here she is with her adorable grin!
We just love this face!


Opening presents, which she loves!
We really could have just wrapped empty boxes and given her some
balloons and she would have been just as happy!


Here is the famed Kitty Cake:

And here we are at the beginning of the day when Joshua insisted that we had to have party hats for the big day.... so we pulled out the scrapbook supplies and went to work!

Party hats or Dunce caps, I'm really not sure which!?!

The kids did enjoy wearing them though, so that's what counts, right?

And here is how the day started off, with Mickey Mouse pancakes made by Daddy, the pancake-making-machine!

Bryan's Birthday:
Gee, some how there is not nearly as many pictures....

Here is Bryan modeling the TT basketball shorts we gave him, which was Joshua's idea. He remembered that the Elder's Quorum b-ball "season" was about to start and insisted that Daddy needed some new shorts - good idea Joshua!

Don't worry, his wife didn't let him leave the house in this fashionable combo! :)

And here he is with his presents:

I hope that both Bryan and Grace enjoyed their special days and that they know how much they mean to me! Bryan has brought so many wonderful things into my life in the last five years and I can't imagine (nor do I want to) life without him! Grace makes me smile everyday and I just can't get enough of her!

Aren't we so blessed!?!