Mama Anne and I made the executive decision to have the Kate and Aston’s birthday celebration together. It just made sense since they are a day a part (Aston on the 18th and Kate on the 19th) and they share the same group of buds. We chose Thomas the Train as the theme…not all that original but something they both love and we can look back at and say “yeah they were way into Thomas and Friends when they were 2”. The location was Carmel Park which was perfect because it had lots of shady areas, picnic tables and age appropriate playground equipment. We all thought it was a super success. Both Dad’s attended, it didn’t rain, no accidents, many friends were in attendance and we were all there for a good 3 hours. Please see Kate’s blog for additional amazing photos.
~The Pre-Game Show: The day before Kate came over to help Aston prepare for their big day. They whipped together some cupcakes (Aston was the stirrer and Kate was the taste-tester) and they decorated the goody bags with stamps, stickers and original art. Most of the “original art” was done by Kate…even the art on Mei Mei’s head:)~
~The Big Day: This was the table before the clan got a hold of it~
~The Friendly Faces: in attendance was Kate, Aston, Caeden, Jordan, Zoe, Maise, Lilly, Connor and 5 baby brothers/sisters~
~Kate wore the engineer's hat like a champ…aston…not so much…wanted to wear it on his own terms~
~Aston pointing out the model helicopter to the girls that a man was flying in the adjacent baseball field…we then of course had to check it out~
~We brought large Thomas coloring sheets and taped them around in various locations. Look how focused Kate is…always amazes me…had a photo of Aston eating a crayon…that was the closest he got to the craft project~
~Kate taking off her shoes as always and Aston and Kate hijacked some little girl’s bike~
~Getting Kate’s approval on his new gift from Connor…”What do you think Kate is this a good one?”~
~The Rebels: these 3 bandits escaped and ran, with Aston leading, all the way across the football field…what rascals~
Side Note: This was the first time I used the D90…please bear with as I get this all figured out…:) I am also now using Windows Live Writer which I love but I am still trying to get the hang of the formatting and such.
3 comments:
wow. you're so good to include all these. so many to talk about. love the last one of the three of them. just cool. mei with mark makes me laugh. cute hat comparison. cute of kate looking through gate. love parent shots (lilly running to kate, bru and kate walking). it's funny how different our lenses get the shot like the one of her on door is really cool perspective i think and i just can get that. love that you included the pre-game show, except it makes me cringe to see kate sucking down that raw egg. super post. i don't feel like we need to bear with you. don't see you falling short on any of it!!
Kate, I'm telling you, you have a real talent with photography.
Too cute! All of your pics look fabulous; I have to agree with Kate that we don't need to "bear with you"...Thanks for such a great time! Zoe is definitely going to miss all of her pals!
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