Pool Party!

Edwin is turning two on the 4th of July, and given the holiday and that I'm about to have this baby, I decided to celebrate his birthday with his friends earlier. It was mainly to get all of Edwin's friends together before people moved (including us) and went on vacation.


The party was absolutely awesome! I'm not much of a host, I become somewhat stressed about everyone having a good time, so I was a little worried to go through with the party. When the party actually started I was so happy it was so successful with little to no effort from me, the water did all the etertaining.


I made a "Stanford bus" cake because Edwin LOVES the Stanford bus. We now ride the Stanford bus often, mostly in the evening with the whole family. Usually after dinner Edwin says "bus" and then grabs both Grant and my hand and leads us to our door and then out to the bus stop in front of our house. When Edwin sees the bus coming he gets so excited and exclaims "bus, bus." It's pretty darn cute.


My cake decorating skills are less than par, but it was fun building the cake and making it the "Edwin #2 bus."



It seemed like everyone had such a good time. We had two little kid pools, one with a slide going into it, and a sprinkler.


This is Edwin with two of his very close friends Ava, who just went back to Australia for the summer to see her family with her mom of course, and Anabelle, who is Edwin's next door neighbor. They are very special to Edwin.

Pinata time!


Edwin loves balls, so we got him a football pinata. The pinata was hanging throughout the party, so kids could come wack it with their hands, to get as many turns as they wanted, and these kids are pretty young so I wasn't worried about it breaking before we got to it.


Thank you to everyone who came to the party! We had a blast!

Late Prediction

Well, my doctor said today that he thinks I will deliver a couple days late. Wahoo! LOL! That's alright though I feel this baby will come exactly when he's meant to come, and that gives me just a bit longer "just Edwin and Mommy time." He's to be due on the 17th of June, we'll see when he actually comes; go ahead and make your guess.

Our family time has been filled with adventures, unfortunately adventures I haven't captured on this blog, but one thing that our family did do, is family pictures. My sister and bro-in-law came to visit from Utah, and my sister took the family pictures. We took these pictures in one of the Redwood forests in the area. I hope you enjoy!

Edwin is almost two now, he will be July 4th, and he is having a party with a pinata (yay) this Friday. We're doing it early because we don't want to do it after the baby comes.


Grant is going to be a Master (chuckle, chuckle) officially on June 13, from Stanford University. He will be receiving his Masters in Policy, Organization, and Leadership Studies (I had to call him to get this title, I still don't know it) this masters is in regard to education, specifically for Grant in Higher Education. The 9 months he was working to become a Master was the same 9 months I was working on creating a little human.