Hurricanes, and school, and parties....oh my!

We got our share of hurricane Hannah today. Lotsa rain and then a bit of wind this evening. It put a slight damper on the day, but not much. We celebrated Joshua's birthday today. Dan has to leave tomorrow for 2 weeks of training and he'll be gone for Joshy's real birthday. Plus Joshua wanted a surprise party and a lego theme. Tough to do when we just moved here. It worked out okay.

My Uncle Steve and Aunt Kathy were in the area and dropped by. And I was able to invite a boy from Joshua's Sunday School and his regular school class to come over. Dan took Josh and Callie to Mt Vernon while I got everything ready. So the party was a surprise and they had a great time. I had purchased a bounce house (50% off on Amazon!!!) and I set it up in the basement. It was too wet even on the screened in porch. The bounce house was their replacement for all the stuff we sold at the garage sale before we left NC.

So, in no particular order, we have some pictures.....

I got punching balloons for the party. They were a big hit- literaly and figuratively. Check out Delaney's face! And yes, those are 2 boxes I have to deal with still. I think they are full of shoes I need to sort through.

This is how bad I am- I only had 6 single candles, and a #6. No #7; no 7th candle. The kid is turning 7! Yet there are only 6 on his cake. Its a lego cake, by the way. And he thought it was perfectly fine to have a candle on each lego thing, and a #6 in the center. He was also okay with his sisters assisting in the blowing out of them.

The bounce house in the basement! Sesame Street was not my first choice of theme. And it has a ball pit- also not on my first choice list. 50% off puts it on my list! It was a good size and could accomodate 4 kids at once, although Joshua and Marian both got bonked by flying apendages. It inflates in 2 minutes and deflates nearly as fast. I'm happy with it so far.

Oh yeah, here is the shot from the first day of school. You can see their bus stop in the very back right hand of the top. I snapped this shot and was ready to walk them down, when the bus pulled up and they bolted for it. So no sweet getting-on-the-bus shot. Still, they are cutie-patooties, aren't they?!

And I appologise, I really should go to bed at a reasonable hour and not try to prolong my night by blogging when my brain has already left for the evening. Please excuse typos and random, incoherent thoughts here.