The Perkins Place: August 2011

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

The big FIVE (part 2)

Anna wanted a Dora and Diego cake

Grandma Holding

Abs loved the frosting

PRESENT TIME!!!

Nina and Virginia came up for her party

I look at this picture of Big Chris sitting on the lawn with all the kids and sing "one of these kids is not like the other, one of these kids is doing his own thing..."

Yep. I went down the slide in my clothes.
It was kinda fun!

Autumn-time

Virginia & Anna

Going down the slide

Josh. You're TOO cool!

Birthday present from Mom & Dad

The gang
Sabrina, Alex, Kaylee, Haylee, Lauren, Ashlyn, Anna & Virginia

Avva & Alle

Ms. V & Nina

Might I add Virginia you are look really gooooood!

Angie & Courtney K

Grandma & Autumn-time

Thanks everyone who came to Anna's party and helped make turning 5 such a hit!!

The BIG DAY has arrived!!
Anna turned FIVE!!

Chris surprised Anna with a bouncy house/water slide combo for her birthday party. She was so excited for it! All she could say was "Thank you Dad, thank you!"

Waiting for her friends

Some of the PART-AY
Haylee, Ashlyn, Avva, Lauren, Alle & Anna

Angie & Big Chris
(with Nina petting Bear!)

Not quite sure what happened to your shirt there Ang!!

Abs hanging out in the poolAshlyn and the birthday girl

And after EVERYONE left, Chris and I had fun on the slide too!

...I ABSOLUTELY REFUSE to post a picture of me in my bathing suit so Perk's picture is all you get!

Later in the evening Uncle Mike stopped by to visit with Anna.
As always, he spoiled her rotten!

She loves him!

More pics to come...

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Birthday Celebration Part 1

Somehow my child got in ingrained in her head that birthday's in the Perkins home are not just a day celebration, but rather a WEEK LONG festival, full of activities and catering to your every whim.

Now where could she have gotten such an idea?

DON'T LOOK AT ME!

This is 100% pure Chris Perkins right there. Even at 37 he thinks his birthday lasts a full week. So of course children learn from their parents and...

...Que CHUCK E CHEESE!

The week leading up to Anna's birthday all she could talk about was going to Chuck E Cheese. I've never taken her, so how on earth she got the idea in her head that it was a fun place to go to, I'll never know. Wait. She saw a commercial for it. Just like those stupid Fuzzy Noodle pipe cleaners she HAD to have last Christmas, she sees C.E.C. on TV and for 3 days nonstop on the commute to and from work, she breaks me down. Little by little.

It's an odd thing how a 4yr old can wear you down like that. The next thing I knew I was sitting in the parking lot of C.E.C!

So deciding that I was not going to sit there alone as my children ran wild like something out of the Lord of the Flies, I called for reinforcement. Their Dad?? Oh, no! I was calling in reinforcement for ME! Emotional Reinforcement! VIRGINIA!!