Our Liddybug

 Once there was a little girl, named Lydia Grace, who was turning one.  She had a lady bug themed party and had a blast.  (Really got into that cake)!  Only this little girl didn't stay little.  She grew and grew and grew.  She still liked lady bugs and decided since she had no memories of her first birthday, she wanted to have another lady bug themed party.  And so it was planned...

 The birthday girl with 10 fabulous friends, 1 splendid sister, and 1 cute cousin!

 Grandma K was the party plannin' queen.  She had such fun decorations and games planned.  Aunt Amy was in town and made things run very smoothly with her help.  Thanks to two pretty cool peeps!

 There was the "guess how many lady bug M&M's were in the jar" game.  A true labor of love was that Grandma painstakingly painted the lady bugs on each M&M!  Some one in relation to Lyd may have eaten most of them had a few.

 Pin the Lady Bug on the wall game.

 Then, there was a hot potato type of game where lady bugs were passed around.

 Sorry Mom...couldn't resist.  Here Grandma is demonstrating the next game, where one was supposed to hop to designated area with lady bug between the knees.

 And finally, there was a game where the girls had to throw a lady bug threw a swinging hula hoop.  All had fun, but I think...

 Anna-girl had the most fun watching!

 Time for cake...Lyd had a fun time directing her singing party guests in their musical endeavor.

 Most of the menfolk wanted nothing to do with this scene and had celebrated on an earlier occasion with Lyd.  Uncle Matt decided to take his chances and brave the wave of squeals and girly delight (might have had something to do with the fact that he wasn't going to leave his beautimus, due-any-day wife).  We were glad to have him!  Then this guy showed up and we weren't too sure.

Ok...it was Daddy in disguise.  He showed up to wow the crowd with his hula hoop skills!

The End

Where To Begin

I've been a slacker in terms of blogging, I know.  Summer has been full. Vacation Bible School, swim team practice and meets, days at the pool, basketball camp for Jake, trips to Indy to visit family, skating, creeking, a family trip to Columbus last weekend...these are a few of the things we have been doing.  And alas...the kids have one day left.  Jake and Lydia start school Tuesday and Claire starts kindergarten on Friday.  They are all excited.  Claire was disappointed when she found out she wouldn't be eating lunch at school, but quickly regained her happiness when I told her I would pack her lunch in her Hello Kitty lunchbox every morning and she'd eat out of it at home.  Oh, how the simple things bring pleasure to a 5 year old.  The Olympics have been fun to watch as a family, but I'm glad they are done since the late nights don't mix well with getting up early for school.

While we've certainly had our fun over the summer, I was not so great about pics.  Have a few to share later on, but I def need to be more on top of bringing my camera along.  And I still have Lydia's 9th b-day pics to post.  Poor girl...I really did slack on that one.

One thing before this tired girl heads to bed...
Please pray for my nephew, Jonathon.  Yesterday, he took a spill off his scooter and injured himself pretty badly.  He suffered a broken wrist and damage to his two front teeth.  He sees an orthopedic tomorrow, but I am sure he and his family would appreciate the prayer.