save the day!

a villain left us a note abotu how he had captured the superheroes and handed them off to dr. doom in his helicopter. when we ran over there we found another note that said we were too slow and he had taken them to the tallest tower which was really dr. octopus' lab.

we climbed to the top of the playground and they were already gone. we had to go down the swirly twirly drop to look for them.

dr. octopus was waiting for us at the bottom but nowthe sandman had taken the heroes and burried them.

we dug in the sand box to save spiderman, ironman, andcaptain america

next we had cupcakes in celebration of saving the day and of course in celbration of garrett's birthday.

superhero training

1. crawl through your batcave

2. fly over the city
3. use your shield to knock down the wall- seen below

4. shoot spiderwebs at a villain

Garrett decided to wear a friend's superman costume. im so glad look how cute he was!

here's some other heroes enjoying their training

outfitting the heroes

everyone got a cape when they arrived and then we went to work decorating shields- cause every good superhero needs a shield.

calling all superheroes!

Garrett had a friend party this year- superhero style. I loved planning it. He still talks about it so i think it was a success! we're going to break this up into a couple posts just for my sanity in uploading pictures- cause we all know im horrible at that :)

Birthday week

Of course these blasted pictures are in here in reverse order. oh well. better than nothing.

So im new to this two birthdays in one week thing. Its something ill learn to deal with and handle better in the future as their birthdays will always be 5 days apart. :)

Papi and Ahbi were so sweet to make birthdays a priority by coming out for a visit. Papi wasant going to be here for the whole week so we lived it up at Chuck E. Cheese- his treat.

On Garrett's actual day we had a re-do at an icecream cake- this time a more generic style for both birthdays. Gar enjoyed a cars shake and go track and 4 cars, super hero and toy story clothes and pjs, mcd's giftcard, movie and vending machine money.

On Jocie's day the morning was all hers though she had a party in WA at Maga's house. She loved her doll gear, books, purse, phone, clothes, mcds card and cookies with her vending machine money.











I so love being the mom of these two and hope to make their days happy for a long time.

sunriver

allison and ashley were the best big kid helpers for paige and garrett at this awesome bounce house we found while the boys golfed.

there was tons to do even for little jocie and brayden

sweet paigey pie

i love when jocie raises her eyebrows like this! too cute- i hope i remember this face forever

isnt brayden so handsome? im a lucky aunt

she was in heaven. wish we found a place liek this in miami

crafts by kristene! thanks so much fun- we made wood blocks with a pic of portland temple that said "im going there someday"

even grandpa helped garrett make one

we played lots of fun minute to win it games. i cant figure out howto get a hilaarious video posted here of garrett trying to shake 40 ping pong balls out of a box on his bum.

we loved the bounce house place so much we went back later that week witht daddy

we explored lavalands with the Dabbs. i learned that NASA practiced with the moon buggy thing here first before they took it up to the moon. cool

best of all we had lots of little cut ething slike this happen (jocie following brayden through the coffee table) we so LOVED bonding with extended family that we miss A LOT

grandpa and grandma judged a "Chopped" competitionwe all cooked for

fun lake day ( that i probably was a little party pooper for- sorry) Garrett on the paddle boat with hmmm.. allison, ashley, denise, and paige. geoff also enjoyed the wave runnerr thingy and i... did not. hehehe

im missing lots from this week but we sure did enjoy the time with family. thanks everyone for making it a priority.