Birthdays and Ballet Recitals

Our family had a busy weekend celebrating our newphew's first birthday and our niece's first ballet recital. My brother-in-law's house was filled with family, birthday cake, balloons, presents, flowers and tutus. Jonah and Kayla wore each other out running, swinging and playing in the sandbox. Christian who just started walking tried tirelessly to keep up with the older two and the youngest well, Meredith got passed around to a lot of different hands that day and she her first meltdown on Saturday night right as everyone started getting ready for bed at midnight. A little drive around town with Daddy seemed to calm her down and I think we finally passed out fell asleep in one of the reclining chairs around 3am only to be woken up by four little ones at 7am that morning. Ah, the joys of being a parent!