Hannah's 4th birthday party

We had a great party at Westwood last Saturday to celebrate Hannah turning 4.  However, she was very confused as to why she wasn't 4 on Sunday since she already had her party.  By Monday morning, when she was officially 4, she was thrilled.

Here is her My Little Pony cake.

Pawpaw and Uncle Beebo

Pawpaw, Memaw and Uncle Beebo

Her decorated table with the free balloons!  Some nice man gave them to us because they would not fit in his car.  Nobody really cared that they had some Minnie Mouse balloons on there!

Me, Memaw, Uncle Beebo

The future gymnastics star on rings!

And another future star on rings...Molly!

The sweetest big brother ever.

Jacob and Tyler

All patiently listening to the "rules" at each station.

Jacob did the rings too!

Jake is REALLY good at them.

New station = more rules.

About to jump into the foam pit.

Logan

Luke

Baby Zach

Want to know what the men did during the party?  They watched the Texans playoff game on an iPad!

Pretty birthday girl!

The whole gang.

Birthday girl as Rainbow Dash (one of the My Little Pony characters).

Hannah and Brooke

The birthday star!

Getting those candles...

Harper

The whole gang again.

Logan and Cori

Hannah and Brooke

Makinley and Hannah

Charlie and Bradley

Claire and Madison

Jacob and Jake

Tyler and Jacob

Bode

~Nancy

Friday iPhone Dump #196

One of Hannah's early birthday presents was from my cousin Debra (known as Deeba to my kids) and it was 125 foot of brand new bubble wrap!!  They love popping it and loved it even more when Daddy wrapped them up in it.

We had a fun 4th birthday party for her at Westwood Gymnastics.  I'll do a separate post for all of those pictures, but afterwards we went to El Jarrito so they could sing her Happy Birthday!

Her big present from us was a new bike.  However, the helmet we bought that was supposed to fit ages 3-5 didn't even come close to fitting her.  So, she got to pick out her own helmet and picked this one.

It was so pretty outside this week that we spent a lot of time at the park.

We also kept Sassy for a few nights and, of course, Hannah LOVED it.

Rocky loves having her here too but it wears them both out.

Just a pretty girl in one of her new dresses!

And, finally, a picture of Jacob!  I'm not sure why I don't have many pictures of him this week.  I guess when it's your birthday week, you get to be in all of the pictures!

~Nancy

Friday iPhone Dump #195

Just another crazy day at Lupe Tortillas with 2 crazy kids.

Jacob and Hannah opening presents at M and Pa's house.

While at M and Pa's house, if ever you couldn't find Hannah and Molly for a second, odds are they were in M's craft room making pictures.

Wiltshire Christmas photo 2016

On Jacob's last day before heading back to school, he wanted to go to the mall to do fun stuff.  So, we did.  Here they are riding the train.

And, of course, being silly on the train.

Of all the gifts Hannah got, she wanted to bring this purse with us when we got home.  It's one of M's old purses that she let Hannah keep.  There is a baby in there!

Playing at a friend's house.

~Nancy

Friday iPhone Dump #194

Last Friday, the kids went to spend one night with Memaw and Pawpaw which allowed Momma to finish the wrapping that she needed to do for Christmas.  The only picture I got was this one that said Hannah really wanted to go on this boat...

Rocky, sleeping again!

Ready to open presents...

On Christmas Eve, Randy heard something in our living room and went to investigate.  Look what he saw...

Santa left a lot of toys but also left a Storm Trooper costume (or whatever it's called).

I haven't taken my tree down yet, but I know I will soon.  I was looking at it the other night thinking about how much I love looking at it, especially at night.  So, I took this picture to remember how pretty it is!

Randy, Hannah and Rocky went to get donuts one morning.  Rocky sat on Hannah's lap the whole time and she LOVED it.

This week we met Jill, Luke, Jake and Zack at Altitude Trampoline park.  These crazy kids jumped, non stop, for almost 2 hours.

And, of course, SILLY PICTURE!!

~Nancy

Friday Iphone Dump #193 - from 12/23/16

Last Friday, when the big kids finally got out of school for Christmas break, we headed over to our friends' house to decorate (and eat) Christmas cookies.

On Saturday, we went to Hannah's best friend's birthday party at Katy Inflatables.  Her parents were nice enough to let Jacob come too!

Jacob and Randy went to see Rogue One in the theaters.  Hannah and I skipped this one!  Jacob loves to do these scene pictures that they email to you.

Rocky sleeps in some strange positions.  Especially if he falls asleep while you are rubbing his belly.

One day this week we had lunch at the Rainforest Café since Jacob brought home some kids meals coupons.  Nobody was scared of any of the (fake) animals this time.  That's a big win for us!

Annual Groom family Christmas picture.

Last night, we went on a hayride to see the Christmas lights in one of the very decorated neighborhoods.  This was the only picture I got but it was fun!

~Nancy