Holly's Birthday Times Two

Saturday night Mitch & I took the boys to spend the night with Gigi and Granddad so that we could go out with Holly and Chris to celebrate Holly's birthday. We started the evening with dinner at Cabo's - Holly's and my favorite restaurant to go on our Mom's Night Out, so we thought that Mitch and Chris should get a chance to sample the yummy food we always enjoy without them lol. After dinner we headed to Strikes bowling, but since the place was packed with high school kids hanging out on a Saturday night, the wait was over an hour long, so we instead headed to older Rocklin and hit up the old bowling alley there. I honestly don't even know what the place is called, but "older bowling alley" works just fine. It had a good vibe - as Mitch said, "This place is middle school. It's not old and rundown enough to be old school, but not fancy and new like Strikes, so it's 'middle school.'" I bowled my highest game ever - a whoppin' 137 - so I was happy. We ended the night back at Holly & Chris' watching "Superbad," which is sadly the first non-kid movie that we have seen in a VERY long time. We had a lot of fun, and we really appreciated the babysitting favor since Gigi was feeling a little under the weather but kept the boys anyway. Thanks, Mom!



Holly, Chris and I at the bowling alley



The b-day girl and her hubby

Mitch & I enjoying our night out

Monday was Holly's actual birthday, and since she didn't have any plans, the boys and I invited her and Hattie over for pizza lunch and cupcakes. It was an absolutely perfect day: gorgeous and sunny, the kids were behaving properly and everyone was enjoying each other's company. Sawyer was especially intrigued with Hattie's pigtails and hair ribbons this time around, and he kept snuggling up next to her to play with her hair.

Everyone was having too much fun playing outside to put the kids down for naps, so by the time evening started to creep up on us the kids were pretty worn out. I noticed that they were all laying down together in the clubhouse together laughing and talking. Sawyer was pointing out all of Hattie's body parts from head to toe telling her how much he loves her: "...I love your hair, and your feet, and your legs, and your hands, and your booty..." SO funny! Both boys really love having her around, and they had an exceptionally good time yesterday. The lack of nap actually had both of them asking for bathtime early, and they went down for bed easily and without any struggles. Sutton (aka Mr. Early to Rise) actually slept until 8:15 this morning!

Saw & Hat all snuggled up together under the patio table. He was telling her "Hattie, I'm just loving you" right after Holly took this picture.

As Holly said, "He's either her boyfriend now or her gay hair stylist" LOL!

Sutton couldn't wait to get his hands on the cupckaes

The exceptionally messy and goopy cupcakes actually required a change of clothing and a good bathroom scrub-down for all the kids! They were having fun though!