Happy Birthday to Me, I Celebrated Classy!

Saturday was my 34th birthday. It was quite exciting to have my birthday on a weekend. We started off the day by going to the "Black Bear Diner" for breakfast, then Hannah had gymnastics, afterwards Hannah & I went home and took a nap together, and then we went to this fun water park in West Sacramento right near Andy & Laura's new house. I had been to the park before with Hannah & Samantha with my mom's group and we had so much fun that I planned to do this on my birthday with the girls again and Laura & Andy had their niece Lily for the the night and Tara and the twins came too. We had a lot of fun again! That night we were dropping Hannah off in Elk Grove with Adam's dad b/c she was going camping with him and her cousins to Tahoe for several days. Since we were dropping Hannah off we also left Samantha there for several hours so we could go out to dinner for my birthday. Now this is where the classy part comes in...originally we were suppose to go to McCormicks & Schimicks, which is a nice restaurant in Sacramento. So we had packed nice clothes that we were going to change into at Adam's dad's wife house. We had reservations at 8pm but had to push them back to 8:30pm b/c we were running late. When we made the call to change the reservations they let us know they close at 9pm...what???!!! On a Saturday night???!! That is crazy. We didn't feel like driving all the way to downtown Sac from Elk Grove to be rushed through dinner. So we decided to go see a 9:05pm movie.."The Proposal" (great movie...go see it) and thought we will grab something to eat on the way there. Well we did not leave the house until 8:45pm and realized that we did not have time to go get something to eat. We were both starving and so when we got to the theater we got movie theater hot dogs in our fancy clothes...so classy. I have never had a movie theater hot dog and I was so scared to eat it but I was so hungry that I just sucked it up and ate it. It felt so weird being dressed up , eating a hot dog at the movies...I don't think I will soon forget that birthday meal. Here are some pictures of the water park we were at on my b-day:



Samantha loves splashing in the water:


I love this picture b/c poor Abby is curled up in ball on her towel with long sleeves just freezing and next to her is Hannah sprawled out on her towel soakin' up the sun:



A cool "artistic" shot of Hannah & Lily:


Adam getting dumped with water...I am so proud of myself that I captured this shot:



And since it has been soooooo long since I posted last here are some updated pictures of the last month and things that happened:

For Father's Day I decided to get a picture of the girls and put it in a frame. I didn't realize how much effort it would take to get ONE good shot of the two of them. After many many pictures and positions here is the winner:



Cute, huh?

More pics from Father's Day:

One of my favorites..


Daddy & his girls:



Samantha found her feet:



Samantha started day care at Hannah's school on July 1st (and has had 2 ear infections already!) and Hannah was more than happy to bring her to the infant room on her first day:



We went to visit my friend Jill in Novato and her daughter, Reese, who is 6 enjoyed playing with Hannah and they both enjoyed dressing up as princesses. Reese even did Hannah's make up...Adam was "thrilled".



I found out it is dangerous to leave stickers in a 3 1/2 year olds room when she refuses to take a nap...this is how she spent her "rest" time:



Samantha went skinny dipping with Ryan (Hannah's friend Sydney's younger brother):



...and went in for her first kiss:



Hannah and I went on a "date" and I took her to see her first movie at the free family theater fun fest in Sac. It was a free movie and we saw "Horton Hears a Who". Hannah was nervous at some parts but in the end enjoyed it a lot and I enjoyed our "date". Here she is in the theater...she could not take her eyes of the commercials that run before the movie long enough to look at the camera while I took this picture:



We've gone to the pool a lot and here are Hannah and Samantha sunbathing:



Finally, since Hannah is gone through Wednesday camping Samantha and I went back down to Novato to visit Jill & cool off. Jill lives a little further out in the country and has some really nice trails right near her home. So I took the back pack carrier for Samantha and we went hiking today with Jill. Samantha LOVED it! She kept laughing and squealing up there and simply just enjoying the ride. It was a great workout for me b/c we went up a good hill and Samantha and the carrier together put some good weight on my back. I am already sore right now from the and it hasn't even been 12 hours! Here we are just before we took off.