YAY, for a fun party weekend! My college room mate, Julie, and her son, Carter came for the weekend! It was so great to have them here. Brayden and Carter got along amazingly well, until somebody touched someone the wrong way, then they had to be angry for a few minutes....then friends again! Talk about emotional roller coasters. They did a great job overall! :) And as always, it's always so fun to see Julie. We were telling our kids how we used to live together, and it seemed crazy that we only lived to together for two years! (Julie transferred to UW our junior year). It seems like we have known each other forever and have always been connected, funny to think we were only together for two years....but they were an inseparable two years! She is also an SLP so it's always fun to talk about our clients, and she always has good ideas for my little ones.
This is Carter, zooming by on his bike. 
Carter, Dani and Ellie. Saturday night we got a baby-sitter and Kent, Julie and I went to the White House Grill for dinner (love it)! It was so nice to be able to sit and chat and catch up for a couple of hours without interruptions.....after dinner and a few party errands we were back home by 7:30 to put the kids to bed. Once they all were in bed it was on to cake decorating. WHOA! This was a much bigger task than I was planning for. I baked the cakes during the day, and I decided to make TWO cakes, since Ellie wanted pink and Dani wanted yellow. I had four layers total, then decided the cakes would be too flat so I added one more layer to each of them. Three layers for my three year olds....
This wasn't exactly what I had in mind. It was a disaster from the beginning, the layers kind of plopped out of the pans and broke and crumbled to pieces. No worries, that's what frosting is for..
This is Julie's project, it turned out way better than mine...
4 cans of frosting later, between both of us, + I had to MAKE my own, to help piece some final holes together, this is the masterpiece:
You can't tell from this pic. (Julie has much better ones) but it is so lumpy, and bumpy it was amazing that it stayed together until the party. At one point I finally said, "Ok, it's going in the fridge before I destroy it anymore!" Julie and I almost peed our pants laughing so hard at the masterpiece, but the next day no one even cared, I am sad to say that Kent's family is used to my disasters! But it was so good, it didn't matter how awful it looked!
A girl's best friend! Julie and Carter got the girls new shoes! They were thrilled and immediately put them on with their party dresses!
Hair brushed and ready for their birthday breakfast.
Julie and Carter ready to party.
Cousin Owen ready to party.
Carter and Brayden partying!
Dani and Ellie in their new princess chairs from Grandma Phillips. They didn't get out of them for the rest of the day AND she got them chap stick! They had no interest in any other presents.
Yes, they are holding soap. That is one of the gifts we got them, it turned into a big joke. Sandy asked Kent what she should get for them, and Kent said, "Get them some soap, they don't need anything and they can always use soap!" Sandy was disgusted by this, but Ellie said, "I want pink soap!" From that day on, whenever anyone asked what she wanted for her B-day she said, "Pink soap!" By the time her B-day came, I had to get her pink soap, and Dani wanted yellow soap.
Jax beach shirts from Uncle Pete, nice clashing tights and their new shoes! Lookin' good ladies!
The masterpieces! 
Tastes good though!
AND they got new jammies/nightgown from Auntie Shelby. They have worn them every night since, and I have to pry them off of them in the mornings. They don't understand why you can't just wear them everywhere we go....I really wish we could, but people frown upon it. 
Happy Happy Birthday girls!
