Happy Birthday Ghea!!

On May 6th, we got to celebrate Ghea's 79th birthday! We brought her lunch, and Eli and I made her some red velvet cupcakes, her favorite! Of course Eli was more than happy to sing, "Happy Birthday," and help blow out the candles!

Eli loves his Ghea!

Sharing her goodies with her two favorite boys!

3 very happy campers!!

Today, we celebrated her birthday with the rest of the family:

Miles soaking up all the attention from Kiki and Zach

As you can see, Eli enjoyed his pizza!

Ghea getting help with the candles from Justin and Janiah (great-great grandkids) and Eli!

It took a second try to blow them all out!

Miles enjoying the fun with Aunt Kathy

The notorious candle licker!

Happy Birthday Ghea!! We all love you!!

Happy Easter!! Round 3

For the last leg of our Easter adventure, we went to Uncle Hani and Aunt Shirley's house. After only seconds in the door, Uncle Hani decided it would be a fantastic idea to give the boys a dozen colored eggs...

Uncle Hani then proceeded to show them how to smash them together...

notice cousin Sean in the background laughing, lol!

What can I say, like father, like son!

Miles was NOT happy when there weren't any eggs left to break
Don't worry...he eventually got over it!

Eli's next stop, Aunt Haifa's lap! He knew he could get some cake out of her...

he also knew he could get some coffee out of her! He's one smart cookie! ;)

Aunt Shirley and Eli

Uncle Hani and Avery

Miles and Hayden...they're clearly talking fashion here!

Uncle Hani and Eli

Miles and Mommy

and finally...Miles and Daddy, all tuckered out!

We had a wonderful Easter, and we're so happy we were able to share it with all of our family!

Happy Birthday and Congrats Aunt Lynn!!

Today we had a double celebration...my Aunt Lynn's birthday AND her retirement! We rented a room at a local rec center so all the kids could run around like crazy...and they did! I took over 100 pictures, so here are a bunch of them, lol!

Eli ready for the party to begin.

Grammy, Grace and Ben

Miles and his Ghea

I love this picture!!

The Castora's: Chrissy, Zach, Paige and Jared

Peej making his entrance

Gran, Papa Steve, Grammy, Miles and Eli

Mommy and Miles

Matt and cousin Jesse

Some of the boys...and Paige:

Joseph, Michael, Justin, Matt, Ben, Jon

Paige and Zach

Aunt Lynn with some of the kiddos blowing out her candles

Uncle Ben holding Grace and Julianna

The ladies with all of our kids!

Chrissy with Grace, and Paige with Miles

Daddy, Uncle Matt, Papa Steve and Eli

Gran with her favorite granddaughter...ME! (j/k...kind of)

Gran with all of her daughters:

Aunt Chrissy/Kiki, Theresa (aka my mom, and Grammy) Gran/Ghea, Aunt Lynn/Noni and Aunt Kathy

Aunt Lynn opening her presents!

We hope you had a wonderful birthday Aunt Lynn!! We love you and hope you enjoy your retirement!!

Our visitors from Mars...

Chrissy and Zach came in town today, and stopped by my mom's to see the boys and Grace! Eli loved having Zach to play with, and we always love our visits with the Castora Crew!!

Listening to music

Checking out Zach's cast...poor guy! At least we got to sign it!
Kiki and Grace

Eli wanted some baby loves too!

Dancing with Kiki

Can't forget Miles!

Miles wanted to give Grace a kiss

Sweet babies!

For once, Miles looks huge!