Monday, October 19, 2009

Party!

So! Michael's official birthday was this past Saturday, Oct 17th and we celebrated with Michael's friends. We rented out the trampolines in the Tuileries for the kids for half an hour. The guy was 10 minutes late showing up.

The kids were READY and had settled down after attempting to break and enter into the place:
Jumping fun:
Michael lovin' his trampoline:
The kids had a FANTASTIC time. Here's my attempt to get all 9 kids on one trampoline and sitting still:
You try this too and let me know what you get! :)
After this, we took all the kids to the carousel and let them ride that. After which we walked the length of the Tuileries, which took nearly 30 minutes with 8 adults and 7 kids.

Got home, did cake. Here's Michael blowing out his candle:
Michael told me he wanted a cake with the number 5 on it. So I did that, and stuck a #3 candle on it. I think he'll be ok.

The kids were happy to chill out and watch a movie. And frankly, so was Larry:
The gorgeous colors of the Tuileries inspired me to get a family photoshoot. We went back around 1pm and the lighting was so much more different, but I did the best I could. And had photoshop help me with the rest. Here are some normal posed pictures that I like:


And we walked to the Luxembourg Gardens and I got this pic of Brian and Michael that I love.

And voila! Michael's birthday weekend done! We loved every minute of it and loved having such great friends to celebrate it with. We are just so blessed!