Some Serious Bragging About to Happen

Jenna and I took a trip to San Diego for my brother, Scoot's girl's birthday party. Scoot and Jen planned this darling Minnie Mouse party for their girls first and second birthdays. It was so fun, and I must say, I have the cutest nieces and nephew...and I have the photos to prove it. 

Our attempt at a family photo with my siblings and their children....just impossible

Happy birthday, Ashtyn & Shiloh! {P.S. Do you like the banner I made?}

 Ready yourself for a parade of cuteness:

Shiloh, 2

Ashtyn, 1

Chloe, 3 

Cooper, 2

Jenna, 2

Kylie, 7

I made some subway art for the party and and Jen blew them up crazy big so that it was you saw first thing when you walk in to the house. 

How cute are the balloons and table cloth draping from the ceiling? 

The next day we went with the Quarders to a fund raiser for my friend, Cindy Bagaso Farmer's son, who I have know since I was 3. Nathan, who is 13 years old, needed to go Mott's Children's Hospital in Michigan for another vascular surgery on February 16th, just 4 months after his last surfer. Nathan has a difficult time controlling his blood pressure, and the doctors have determined he has a narrowing of his aorta artery. 

Nathan has already endured several surgeries including kidney removal, aorta to aorta by-pass, renal artery, kidney reimplementation, and several others. The fund raiser helped with the cost of travel expenses as his last surgery kept them in Michigan for over 6 weeks. If you feel like donating to the cause, an account has been set up at Chase Bank. Please feel free to contact me for account information. 

Cindy, Nathan, and Jimmy were already in Michigan, but we did get a little time with Cindy's mom, which was so fun! They had face painting, a raffle, a silent auction and delicious food, along with a bunch of activities for older kids. So we ended up playing at the local playground. 

On our last day in town, we joined Jen and the girls and fabulous little pub in South Park that has a great little play area for the kids and they had so much fun together. Jenna and Shiloh are so cute together and it was great to get a little one on one time with Jen. 

Cuties.

I thought I would include one picture of her royal cuteness sleeping.

With some final good-bye loves from cute, cute Chloe and Cooper, we were off. It was a great trip and once again Sara and Chris were fabulous hosts. Thank you for always being so good to us, sister!