Party! Party!

Today was such a fun day.  We spent the morning getting ready for people to come over for Corey's birthday party.  We just had a small get together with Terence's Mom and Dad, my Parents, Jared, Emily, Olga and Brian.  We started off the night with dinner and then opened presents.  Connor had a really hard time with the fact that these were Corey's presents and not his.  My parents brought one that was wrapped in Spongebob paper that Connor was particularly eyeing.  By the tim Corey got around to opening his presents Connor was in full breakdown mode.  He did settle down after a while and realized that he would still get to play with the presents even if they were not especially for him. 

Corey's favorite present ended up being a little red remote control car.  Terence goe one very similar to this for Christmad and Corey loves playing with it.  He was super excited to have one of his own.

After presents we had cake.  Olga tried her hand at making a cake for the first time.  It turned out really good!  Thanks for making a great cake Olga!  Corey also blew out his candles on the second try. Not bad.

After dinner and cake things went downhill pretty quickly (what else is new).  One of the presents we got Corey was a nerf gun with replacement darts.  As everyone was sitting around talking Jared and Terence started thowing the darts at eachother.  That turned into them throwing darts at everyone else and before we knew it we were in a full on dart war.  I told Jared if he threw one more dart at me I was going to jump tackle him.  He threw the dart and I ran accross the room and knocked him over.  He said he was laughing so hard he could not defend himself but we all know I really just took him out.  That was Terence's Mom and Dad's cue to leave along with my parents.  They thanked us for dinner and left.  That is when things really got crazy.  We went for a full on old fashioned nerf war, girls against guys.  We moved the couches into the middle of the living divided into teams turned off all the lights and shut all the blinds.  For the next three hours we threw darts at eachother and had a great time doing it. 

I love having family close by and being able to spend time with them.  Thanks everyone for coming!  It was a super fun day.  And of course Happy Birthday Corey.

One more side note, one of my very good friends from my ward called me this morning to tell me she was in labor.  Exactly 2 years to the day after Corey was born she had her little boy.  9.9 lbs 20.5 inches, no name yet.  Congratulations Krista!