Happy Valentine's Day

We have a lot of November birthdays in our family. I attribute it to Valentine's Day being in February. Whitney recently celebrated her 12th pass around the sun. She has now graduated from the Primary, and is a Beehive. A week later Samantha had her 6th birthday.

Whitney invited some friends from school over for a game and movie night.

Patrick and Bean did a great job of calling the numbers for BINGO.

The game of musical chairs got a little rough, but we were able to restore order before the authorities were called.

Because the party goers were mostly female, a spontaneous rendition of 'YMCA' was inevitable.

Being the only boy invited to the party, Lucas felt that he had to come through and be the one to break open the pinata.

When Mayra broke through he shrugged his shoulders and said 'Well, of course. I softened it up for her.'

Watching the kids build their ice cream sundaes was almost enough to turn your stomach. Do you really need to make a 'suicide' and include all flavors of ice cream and all toppings?

Sunday we had a family party for both girls. As usual Kate provided an amazing spread for everyone. And yes, she did make the cupcakes, and there is one lit candle on each.

I told Whitney there is no shame in not being able to blow out all of the candles at once. After all, there were 40 of them...