Remember These Little Girls?

Remember these little girls? These are the babies of our China travel group - our infamous red couch photos taken in August of 2007. Briana is the one on the far left. We are going to be seeing these little girls (minus one) this weekend. We haven't seen them since we left China.

I am so excited. I'll be posting details on Monday. :D Have a great weekend!

The Fourth Party Of The Year

The fourth birthday party we attended on Sunday was a gymnastics party for Bri's friends Laney and Hailey (they are sisters and both turned 4)! It was at the gymnastics center that Bri attends, so she was very at home at this fun party!  

Bri's friend Mary Lin...

The parachute is the best part...

Getting ready for cake...

The birthday girl Hailey...

The other birthday girl Laney...

Bri and pal ML...

Holding hands with Laney...

Swinging on the rope...

ML hanging out...

Here are a few videos from the party...

The first is the kids "popping the bubbles" of the parachute. The second is of Briana's "move." All the kids were asked to show their favorite move. And the third is the kids getting wrapped up in a package by the parachute. It gets a bit blurry at the end (sorry). And yes, at the end of the video Briana begins to shout "Can I do that again?"...

The Third Party Of The Year

We attended another AMAZING birthday party on Saturday. This is the third birthday party we've attended this year. This time it was a cheer party for Briana's friend Emily Grace who turned 5 years old. Briana was of course dressed in her Notre Dame outfit...

Bri greeting the birthday girl...

Go Jackets!!!

The girls learned a routine...

Some exercises...

Bri and her friend Katie...

When the cheerleaders asked someone to volunteer to be lifted first, of course Briana jumped up. Fearless...

That was awesome. Let's go again...

Miss Emily Grace...

Here are two videos of Briana being lifted. In the second, she goes all the way up. No fear!!!





Woo Hoo!!!!

She was wearing Notre Dame but yelling "Go Jackets!"...

Hugs for the birthday girl...

Mmmm, frosting...

Do we have to go home? Boo...

And a funny ending to the party. All the four and five year olds were dancing to Justin Bieber. Hilarious and very cute...

Winter Break - Family Science Night

Friday night was Family Science Night with Curious George at the science museum near our house. We met my sister, brother-in-law and nephew there. Bri had so much fun seeing Curious George, playing with her cousin N and visiting the observatory...

Here is Miss B looking into the huge telescope...

The museum was more crowded that night than I had ever seen it. It was a very popular event. The wait was pretty long to go into the observatory (my sister and family opted out of the observatory - N would have never been able to wait that long because it was getting late), but it was really cool to see the observatory inside. The night was perfectly clear and you could see all the stars.

So Briana had one sleepover, three busy play dates and one family science night from Sunday to Friday. Then over the weekend, she attended two birthday parties. I told you winter break was busy.

Birthday parties pictures to come...