Monday, September 13, 2010

Happy Birthday Craig (a couple weeks ago!)

See how nicely they play together!
Thanks Yaya for the peace jewelry! As you can see, "Peace Rocks!". If only everybody in the world agreed with Old Navy.

Cute hat Squof! (we call Sophie, "squofi" or "squof").


He's showing you how "freakish"ly esctatic he is! Wow! That IS freaky!



See! Look how happy he is with his new toy!!




How cute is this!!! After fighting tooth and nail for the past couple weeks it's nice to see some love!





EVERYBODY had fun on the carousel!







Who wouldn't want to go to the mall for their 33rd birthday???






Party appetizers! Check out Taylor's new specs! They're fashion specs, he thinks he wants glasses! Yaya is so indulgent of my children's crazy whims! (I'm pretty sure that's what grandparents are for!).





Check out this guys' name! We had some fun with it. Hope he wasn't listening from the dead and getting ready to hex us all!



We threw rocks in the river to console ourselves after getting turned away from the museum.





Taylor is going to be and astronaut when he grows up. Maybe he'll live in one of these!




Happy Birthday EGG!


Sophie came up with this on her own!!!

She takes after her Great Grandpa Howell. If anybody has a pic of him on his motorcycle doing this, I need it so that I can post it next to this!

A couple weeks ago (Labor Day weekend) we celebrated Craig's birthday. We were fortunate enough to convince Craig's parents AND Hailey, Steve, Jack and Griff into coming up to our house to celebrate the event! UNfortunately, it was cool and windy and rainy. No worries, I planned a trip to the Public Museum of Grand Rapids and even made sure it was open and checked on admission. Too bad for us, their power went out, and they even had a hand written note telling us, in no uncertain terms, that the museum would NOT open again even if they got power back up and running. Well, we had already promised the kids a carousel so we took poor Craig to the mall food court for his birthday. I still feel a tad guilty about this. But we had a great time. We rode the carousel and ate junky mall food court food (french fries, rootbeer floats, fried cheese curds and movie theater popcorn w/ the extra butter, all of this sounds even crazier as I type it out) and laughed ourselves silly and then went home to eat more food and even have birthday cake!
For those of you who contributed to the GPS THANK YOU!! He LOVES it!

6 comments:

Rachael said...

i LOVE Katie's hair, Taylor's glasses and the nasty mall food birthday party. Happy birthday to Craig!

Carrie Jeffrey said...

how fun! happy birthday to craig! we miss you guys!

yaya said...

It was so fun and I'm glad we were able to come up. It's nice to be closer! If your kiddos weren't so stinkin' cute, I might be able to refuse them weird things!

Steve and Hailey said...

Okay that picture of Craig and his dad is hilarious! There's one for the family album. Craig can do the best faces. I want Yaya to say that Indian name again! See you soon.

Christina said...

Happy belated birthday, Craig! (And happy birthday, Amy!) We miss the heck out of you guys.

HowellAZ said...

Great fun - how cool is it to have family close enough to be at these fun activities?!? I am mostly sad that I am not close enough to meet you guys for greasy food at the mall food court. I really enjoyed all the cute pictures - well, maybe 'cute' isn't exactly the right word for ALL the pictures, but you get my idea! :)