Birthdays

All my babies are born in June!

We celebrated Marley and Ella's birthdays last week with a combined roller-skating party at Magic Elm Skateland. Here the girls are opening a gift before the party from our family friend, Deb. They got new plates with their pictures on them! How cool! And totally usable. They have been used everyday for at least one meal.

Ella's group of friends pose for a photo before hitting the rink. Unfortunately, my rink photo's did not turn out because of the bad lighting and the fact that I still haven't learned to change the settings on my new camera so action shots are hard to get. The kids just kept moving on those skates. Everyone was a blurr.

Ella's princess cake with 7 candles.

Marley's beach cake with 9 candles.
One party but two themes!
And two sets of friends.

Here are Marley's friends all smiles because they are ready to dig into that cake.

The girls agreed to have the joint party to make life a little easier on their mother who is 9 months pregnant. This was not their first choice but when the day was over, they both agreed that it was a great party. I highly recommend this place for parties. The party was easy, affordable and fun!
And we got free tickets to go back some day soon.
Oh, and we only sent one kid home with an ice pack on her head. Poor Anna took a bad spill on the hard concrete. She never once cried even as the goose egg kept growning on her forehead.