Family Birthday Party for Josh and Allie

We had our families over today to celebrate the birthdays of Josh and Allie.  It is so nice having my kids birthdays within a few weeks of each other so that we can do a combined family party.
I figure this works out good for the extended family too because then they just have to squish into my small house two times a year versus four times.  Someday we will have a bigger house...

Josh was so excited for the party.  Allie didn't really know what was going on.  She did notice the presents and was very interested in seeing what they were.  Megan really wanted to help Allie open her presents, but Allie really didn't want Megan's help.  This party was hard on Megan.  She really wanted it to be her birthday and her presents.  Kids gotta learn sometimes not everything is about them.

I asked Josh if he wanted cake and ice cream first or open presents first.  Silly questions, of course he wanted to open presents first.  I thought about having them take turns opening but Allie was super slow so we pretty much just let Josh go with just little rests.

Both Josh and Allie loved all of their gifts.  Our family is very generous and these kids were very spoiled as usual.   All of the presents were prefect and Tyler and Megan were excited to help play with them.

Having new toys in the house is always fun for all the kids.  They got some new magnatiles, critter toys, books, Pikachu toy, Legos, and more.  I know that all the kids will have so much fun playing with all the toys.  Luckily even Tyler isn't too old to play with the little kid toys.  It'll be sad when they are older and no longer want toys.

After presents we got the cake out and sang Happy Birthday to the birthday kids.  I tried to get a picture with Josh and Allie but Allie did not want to stand in front of the cake for some reason.
Last week at Margie's house she put a little candle in Allie's dessert and Allie did not like it at all.  She totally cried, it was a little odd.  So earlier Today Tony and I got out a little candle and we practiced blowing it out.  Allie got pretty good after a while and we thought she would do great when the time came.  But when we brought in the cake with the candles, she cried.  So after giving up on taking a picture with her and Josh I held her and she calmed down.  After she stopped crying she was able to blow out her candle and she did good.
Then it was cake and ice cream time.  I was going to make cupcakes, but after Tyler's soccer game and mowing the lawn I decided I didn't really want to make them.  So Tony went and picked up a cake at Sam's Club.  It was yummy.

After we ate we chatted for a while before people had to leave.  Then Grandma Margie and Grandpa took us all out to dinner for Josh, Allie, and Brennen's birthdays.  We decided to go to The Cracker Barrell.  The food was good and we all had a good time.
After dinner we came back home to watch the BYU vs U of U football game.  We had it recording.  It was a crazy game and we ended up loosing by one point.  What a fun day we had!  We sure love our families!!!