Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Birthday Party and a BBQ!

This week has been pretty fun for the Ticknor Tribe so far! 
 
My baby sister Molly turned 4 on Sunday! (not much of a baby anymore)
I can't believe she's already so big :(
 
We bought a Costco cake (the best kind) and bought some colored icing to write "Happy Birthday Molly"
 
She really didn't care about the cake that much though; she kept eyeing the gifts and saying "can we do presents now?" 
 
With all the kids crowding around Molly watching her open her gifts, it was hard for Caleb to see.  So big brother Greg came to the rescue!  
 
Molly was pretty excited when the time for presents finally came!  She got a new Bitty Baby, some outfits for it, a Bitty Baby car seat, and also a coloring book from Emma...
 
She really loves her new baby!  She carries her around all the time!
 
Another thing that we did this past Monday was to help out with a BBQ the friends we are staying with were having!  We grilled hot dogs and hamburgers, roasted three turkeys, and had numerous kinds of salads...
Emma was glad that she got to reconnect with a girl she met in the nursery at church (none of our kids go to the nursery, but the church was in need of workers last week, so Emma and I volunteered)
  They where inseparable all evening! If you saw one, the other was not far behind...
 
One of the families that were coming thought it would be fun to bring a bounce house for the kids to play in!
 
They really enjoyed it! they played non-stop for hours with the other kids there.  We had a few minor injures (head bonks, etc...) but nothing so bad that they didn't get over it in five minutes and get right back in! LOL!
(Love the fact that Molly is in midair in this picture!)
 
I think we estimated that there were around 50 people that came; some people from church, and some just friends...

Well...other then that, that's pretty much all that's happened with us.  We are thinking about heading out to one of our favorite camping places out in the boonies in a week or so!  We only ever get there once a year, sometimes not even that.  Definitely going to do a blog on that, maybe two or three!!! 
 
Till next time~