My life as a mom of two!

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My grandma turned 79 today and I/we got to spend the day with her.  Not every 31 year old woman has a grandma who turns 79 let alone gets to spend the day with her.  So, today was my lucky day!

The last two birthdays I've taken my grandma to get a facial.  Kind of nice to be away from the kids and spend time with just her and me.  However, this year I took a different approach.  I let my kids decide how we'd spend the day. 



Yep, they chose Chuck E Cheese.  Grandma didn't care.  She loved playing games, winning tickets and watching the kids have a blast.  She even earned a gorgeous birthday ring. 









This is what we came back to after purchasing more tokens.  Christian climbed up there, obviously not tall enough to reach the pedals.  So Victoria is using her hands to get him to go higher.  There isn't even a token in this ride.
That's Team Work!



Official Chuck E Cheese Birthday Shot

After about two hours of playing we headed out to lunch.  I wanted to go to the Broadway Pizza.  Apparently they have gone out of business.  So we headed across the street to Buffalo Wild Wings, great choice!!!  They weren't busy and we were treated like royalty.  Apparently when a 4'11" 79 year old woman walks in carrying birthday balloons, people notice.  We had a great time eating and hanging out.





Lovin' the popcorn shrimp!



Chuck E Cheese cotton candy for dessert!  Doesn't get much better!





                  The manager followed us out of the building so I could be in the picture too!
                                    Wow, I've never looked like a giant in a photo ever!
                                  Hmmm, I should hang out with these three more often;-)





On the way home Christian was wearing his wing hat upside down so it looked like side burns. 
Seriously, could we have more balloons in this car?  

Happy birthday Grandma!  We're glad we could celebrate with you!

We've lived here for over five years now. We bought this house just weeks after we paid cash for our very gorgeous wedding.  Needless to say, we were quite strapped when we actually moved in.  We had the house re-carpeted the first week but bought the cheapest stuff money could buy at Home Depot.  Needless to say, it didn't wear well. 




We've been talking about replacing it for a couple years.  Finally I set a date,  July 5th new carpet would be installed. 

But it's never easy around here.

Instead, Mark wanted to rip out the old and refinish the original hard wood underneath.  I was against the idea because carpet is in a couple of hours and we're back to normal.  Refinishing floors takes, hmmmm, I didn't really know, but I'm not so patient in situations like that.  So I gave him 48 hours.  The kids and I moved to Auntie Sandy's for the weekend.  While Mark was working hard we were playing hard.




So the kids and I left on Friday at 4:00.  When we came home on Sunday afternoon this is what we found.




Sure enough, he was right.  There we some very pretty floors hiding under there!
Good call honey!  I love our new floors! 

One of Victoria's favorite past times is playing mommy.  She wants nothing to do with my beloved Cabbage Patch Doll Caroline, but she sure loves her stuffies.  Every stuffy has it's own name and personality.  Some love to sleep with her and some earn time outs.  Her she is with all her children.  She was yelling, "Come quick and grab the camera while they're all holding still!" 



From left to right we have:
Victoria the mommy, teddy, piggy 2, piggy 1, chickie, Baby (her all time favorite), ted, & brownie.

I love her imagination!