Birthdays Parties!

I just needed to post a pic of baby girl :)

Me, Jacks and Vegas.



My big kid Joe

Jadah trying to skate

Joe gettin in a bit of practice before hitting the big kid rink

The bday girl Khiara and Jadah

Joe and his cousin Mija

Jacks and his cousin Jadah

Wow. I'm such a slacker! I've been meaning to post this forever. I'm pretty darn caught in the holidays this year! I usually am, unless I'm pregnant and in which case I don't dig it at all! Speaking of, 2009 has been a really crazy year for me - full of glorious moments and accomplishments. Mainly, 2009 is the first time since 2003 that I haven't spent all/some of the year pregnant or giving birth. For those of you playing the home version: 2003- pregnant with Joe, 2004 - had Joe, 2005 - got pregnant again (miscarriage), 2006 - pregnant with Jacks, 2007 - gave birth to Jacks in March and was pregnant again in December, 2008 - had Juliana. But, I digress/ramble.

This past week we had a ton of fun with birthdays of people we love! Khiara (family friends) turned 7 and Heather (sister in law) turned 29! 29 I said!! I didn't grab any pics of Heather's celebration, but it was fun. My brother Mike knew he'd be out of town on that day to India for work so he set up for me to take two of the kids and my other brother Paul to take two of the kids so she'd have a nice, quiet, relaxing day. Every Mom's dream, right? Best. Present. Ever! We made birthday with my kids, and their awesome cousins, before we dropped them back off around dinner. We had cake and presents with her and Paul's family, which was really nice! Darn me for not having my camera!

So, for Khiara...

Her birthday was midweek and she had a small get together at Dave and Busters. We didn't have anything to do that night so I thought, why not? We had fun (even though it was frickin freezing out) and I swear the next time I go to Vegas (if I ever decide to gamble that is) I'm TOTALLY taking my Jacks with me. Lucky kid. He kept hitting jackpots on every game, was beating me in some and at the end of the night had 1200 tickets. He's 2. Amazing.

Then on Saturday she had her roller skating party! So much fun!! None of my kids had been yet, but Aunt Stacy kept Juliana and I took her 2 year old Jadah. No way I could have helped the boys from breaking their necks with Juliana there. And she would have been so hacked to not be on the skates like the "big kids." Joe did awesome and within minutes he was out of the kiddie ring. Jacks did very well too, and wanted to go to the bigger rink but again...he's 2. Jadah? Well...she tried. before we left I took some video of them dancing to some electronica song and Jacks pulled out his best break dancing and Jadah rocked the robot. They are so funny, especially together.

K, I know I should have done like 3 seperate posts here, but I'm a single mom with three kids and a mortgage. Don't judge me!

*I wonder how much longer that "excuse" will work for me LOL*