Bluejeans and Lace: We are Blessed!

We are so blessed to live in this world that God has given us. Today will be a quiet Easter for us. A little unusual. Typically there are little ones running around and lots of food being cooked and enjoyed. This year, we celebrated a week early. I have two grand children with birthdays and their party was this weekend.

It was a pirate party! There were gadzillions of kids... You see my daughter Danielle and her husband Mark have a LOT of friends and about 5 years ago, they all decided to start having children. At one point I think there were at least a dozen families that were pregnant. Just kidding. But it seemed like a dozen. And now when there is a kid's party, those little rug rats are everywhere. Every party has a theme. Last year, we had Spiderman and the Princess:

The Princess Cake

The Spiderman Cake

Spiderman Bouncy House

Spiderman Pinata

Taylor enjoying her Princess Cake

Uncle Cody was SUPPOSED to dress up too, but chickened out at the last minute, but that didn't stop Aiden from dressing up and shooting his webs everywhere. I think he made some of the smaller ones a little nervous.

This year it was Pirates. Yes there was a bouncy house and ... hmmmm ... I forgot to get a picture of it. But I did get the Pinata. :)

Sweet pirate vs Mean pirate :)

So Grandaddy says "stick me with that big ole knife ya got there little pirate". Aiden thought it was hilarious and ran off. Grandaddy said "that knife was a littttttle sharper than I thought it was". :)

Taylor had as much fun playing with the pirate props as Aiden.

Aarrghhh Matie!

There's that Pinata!

I did get the inside of the bouncy house.

Everyone waiting to take a whack.

Tay Tay doing her thang.

and we have candy. Thank you Lord for our blessings.... please let them take it all home with them. Amen.

cooling off....

Blowing out the candles.

Even Uncle Cody and Aunt Melanie came. Little Jake had fun looking at everything and then he was out. Next year, he will be running around with his cousins.

So, my point is that with the birthdays and all that come with them, we decided to have our Easter celebration last weekend. What fun!

Sneaking into that candy....