Birthday and Memorial Day Weekend Celebrations

We had a fun and busy weekend!!  Get ready for LOTS of pictures!  Here is what I wake up to every morning :)

Friday, we kicked off of the weekend celebrations with Lilly's 4th birthday party.  All of my brothers and sisters and their kids came into town, along with my grandma and grandpa.  Lilly was excited to celebrate her "princess" b-day!

 Waiting for the other cousins to show up and decorating goody bags.

 Princess and the pea game to see if the girls were "real" princesses.....they were!!

 Picking "knight" swords to pop the bubbles from the bubble breathing dragon (me)

 Princess walk game

 Royal Ball freeze dance

 Playing "pin the kiss on the frog"

 Last game:  the princess scavenger hunt.  The kids followed clues throughout the house which led to a new swing set.  Mark stayed home all day building it.  I kept the blinds closed and told the kids were were pretending to be in a bear cave all day.  They didn't mind and didn't even suspect that Mark was out in the back yard!

 Excited to test out the new slide

 Papa teaching Caleb to drink punch straight from the punch dispenser!!

 Fun at dinner

 Present time!!

 Papa's present was a hit.  New outfit, complete with accessories (hat, sunglasses, necklace and sandals!!)

 Grace LOVED Grandma Great.  She just stared lovingly at her for quite a while.  We are glad Grandma and Papa Great finally got to meet her!

 Ready for cake!

 On Saturday, we headed up to the cemetery to have a memorial service for my mom and brother (where we put their ashes recently).  It was nice to all be together and just remember their lives, their impact on us, and God's Grace, knowing that we will see them again someday.

 Great grand kids (Caleb not so sure about posing)

 The "Moore" kids with Papa, and Grandma/Papa great

 Von Trap family??!!

 That evening, we had a campfire in the backyard at Papa's with hot dogs and s'mores

 I think Caleb had at least 5-6 wedges of watermelon!

 I had to share this progression of pictures (can you tell they are having fun pretending??)

 Sweet baby blues!

 Tired after a long, fun day!

 The next morning, we headed to my sister's house for a fun brunch.  Here is sweet Aspen, my brother's daughter.

 Back to Papa's house for a nap.

 And then fun in the hot tub!!

 Today was Lilly's real birthday.  She started the day with a doughnut.

 Then we headed downtown for some fun....lunch at Red Robin

 Ice cream sundae topped off the meal

 Then the carousel

 The big red wagon

 And then stopped to get a balloon crown made

 After dinner, she got a pink cupcake!!  I think it was a GOOD weekend!!