As usual, I find myself way behind on keeping my blog up-to-date.  I just can't seem to find the time
 and when I do have the time I just don't want to blog.














But I'm starting to feel guilty for not mentioning Sweet Pea's birthday more than a week later.   Birthdays around here are usually pretty low-key and involve just family.  (I'm not a big fan of friend birthday parties) Grandma and Grandpa V. come up and we have birthday child's dinner of choice, which is usually pizza and sometimes a fun family activity.  All in all a great day.

 A sad good bye.  A few weeks ago we had a family move away that we were good friends with.  We went to the same church and lived around the corner (kinda).  All of our kids were friends with other. Liv and R. were extremely close and it has been very hard on her.  Anyway, before they left we had a party for them.  I don't think I've ever had so many people in my house at one time.  Here's above picture has most of the kids in it and then there were the adults on the other side of the room.   A significant loss to our family.

This was how the girls spent the last 30 minutes of the party.  It was so sad! =(

It was even worse the next day when they actually left.

Friends.

No explanation needed.