Friday, May 11th
Philly, Angel, and Chelsea
I was so pleased to get a phone call from Angel stating that she and Chelsea would be in
Bloomington on Friday. They were interviewing IU and touring the campus to see if it is the right school for Chelsea. I say "interviewing" because Chelsea is a very intelligent (and very beautiful) student whom will have colleges competing for her. It is clearly Chelsea's choice of where to attend college. Lucky for us, we may have another niece at IU. They drove a bit futher south to visit us. We were so glad that they did.
Angel and Chelsea got to meet some of my childcare children and Angel made a new friend.
Friday evening we had some friends over for Amaya's 12th birthday and boy did we get her good!
SURPRISE!
Everyone hid behind the couch and popped up at the perfect moment to pull off a surprise birthday party. Amaya didn't have a clue that a party was waiting on her back home.
Philly turned on some Beatles music ("They Say It's Your Birthday") and the party was kicked off to a great start.
With dancing....
Cake.....
...cake...
And more cake... (Meet Milina. My cousin Angel's daughter. An Angel in both of our families.)
...and party horns, this night was a hit!
This is Scout, one of best friends, Michelle's, 21 month old sweet girl, who also happens to be one of my childcare kids. She absolutely adores Philly.
On Saturday we had another special guest visit. This guest spend the night with and join in our Mother's Day celebration!
She also got to ride on Philly's shoulders after a trip and fall accident while out on our neighborhood walk.
Chloe Marie... another childcare kiddo. I have known her mommy for years, (Angelique) another BFF!
She absolutely adores Philly! (Did I already say that earlier?;)
And I think she kinda likes me too. Philly doesn't have to discipline the children all of the time so he is much more fun.
At the very last minute I decided that we would rearrange our schedule so that we could all go to Logansport for a quick Mother's Day trip. So on Sunday we got up early and headed up to visit family.
See a familiar face? There is Angel...twice in one weekend in two different towns...yippee!
Chloe was thrilled to see a familiar face. It didn't even take her long to warm up to the unfamiliar faces.
Amaya was happy to see these three beautiful sisters (nieces), Casey, Sarah, and Emily.
Two good looking young men, Tanner (nephew) and Austin (cousin.) Notice the bunny ears?
and Ely...get'em Austin!
A couple sweet cousins Maddie and Katey.
Nick and Ely worked in some pitching practice.
And the whole purpose of our very quick trip up to Logansport and back (in one day)... Jinner, Philly's Mom! Sweet, kind, and absolutely hilarious! Got to love this women!
We hope everyone had a fabulous, family filled Mother's Day!
It just gets better every year!
Take care,
Jen, Phil, Amaya, Ely, and (of course) Baby
