Happy Birthday Owen!!!!

Wow, 4 years ago last night we were flying down the freeway to the hospital at midnight when Owen made it very well known that he was quickly on his way. And less than an hour and a half after we left home and only a few minutes after we reached the hospital, in a triage room with no doctor, and after a very short but painful labor, he practically leaped into this world. Life hasn't slowed down since. I cannot believe how fast time has flown by and that my baby is 4 years old.

This past Sunday, we had our annual bbq/birthday party to celebrate our one family summer birthday. Owen has been waiting for his birthday for months now and was beyond excited that his party was finally here. He wanted a Star Wars birthday. Since I had just done that a couple years ago for Justin and did the R2D2 cake, I wasn't sure what I was going to do for this one. Owen's favorite Star Wars characters are Boba Fett and Jango Fett and so I came up with a Boba Fett cake. I had considered carving it into an actual head, but decided to just frost the head on a flat cake. He seemed happy with that.

He didn't really have a lot of patience for all the eating and socializing. He wanted to get to the presents.

One happy boy waiting to open his presents

Seriously studying one of his presents

Then there was even a pinata courtesy of Grandpa Robert and Grandma Pom packed full of candy. At first Owen wasn't thrilled that it didn't break open on his first hit. It actually took many many hits and Grandpa slicing it open with a knife to get that thing to open.

Once it did open, there was a candy frenzy with kids packing their bags.

The 3 youngsters up to no good with their candy loot on the stairs. Grandma Judi spent a long time cleaning up tiny little red candy balls that got all over the stairs.

It's cake time! This was the part that Owen's best friend Evie couldn't wait to get too. She enthusiastically led us all in singing "Happy Birthday" to Owen.

Blowing out the candles with a little help.

So all in all, it was a fantastic party with lots of family and friends. Owen had a great time and probably in a few months will start bugging us about when his next birthday is.

On another subject, the kids have been bugging Dale and I for over a year about building them a play house. Well finally, Dale got this project started. Hannah, especially, is extremely excited about this. The question is whether Dale will get to use any of it to store tools in. He says that in 10 years, he'll finally get a shed, but for now, it will be a great place for the kids to hang out in the backyard, rain or shine. Hannah has even made her own 3D model of it out of paper complete with furnishings and decorations. She has quite the plans.

Here she is inspecting Dad's work.

I have been busily cleaning up after the party, getting Scrapdango kits ready to ship and now we have to get ready for our week long tour around Oregon that starts on Saturday. I will be so happy to get away for a week. I'll be back soon to post about that.

TTFN ~ Ta Ta For Now!