The Cubs' Fourth Birthday Party

Long lost entry from April.....

The Cubs celebrated their fourth birthday jumping, jumping, jumping at Jump for Fun. They have awesome bounce houses, and best of all, it is indoors, air conditioned, and CONTAINED. A must when entertaining a herd of toddlers. Fun was had by all. Here are a few pics...

The guests of honor:


Lots of friends:


Cupcake Face


Load them up with sugar and send them home. I'm sure all the parents loved me! :)

A picture says....

Since a picture says a thousand words....then I should have to write a lot less! Woo hoo!! Here are some more pictures from earlier this year.

Our little neighborhood Easter egg hunt.:




Grandpa Bear installed a putting green for the cubs' fourth birthday.






New bikes!!





Easter morning.




Friend's birthday party at Chuck-E-Cheese.

I don't even know what I've missed!

Wow, it's bad when you are so far behind in blogging that you don't even know what you've forgotten to blog about. I'm sure Steve will read this and present me with a long list of things I forgot. His memory is better than mine.

I think I'll start with the present and try to work my way backwards. We had a very enjoyable Fourth of July weekend. Our friends, Kristi and JJ, came to visit. We enjoyed a nice lunch with them. They had tickets to the Rangers game on Sunday evening, so we went to Heather and Greg's house across the street to watch the fireworks. They have 3 year old twin boys so it was fun watching the kiddos play together. Zach loved the fireworks. Emily was a little afraid of them. We were really close and they were pretty loud. She had her head buried in her hands or in Daddy's shoulder most of the time. Cubs were super exhausted on Monday. Emily even asked to go "night-night" early. WHAT????

Don't drink the water here. That's what I'm going to tell everyone who visits. In addition to Heather and Greg's twins, another set of 3 year olds is moving in 4 houses down from us, and another set is due just around the corner from us. That's four sets of twins practically within arms length of each other. It is going to be fun watching the cubs grow up with so many kiddos in our age group around.

I found a summer preschool for the cubs. You have no idea how momentous this announcement is. I thought I could handle the summer, but it was quickly evident that I was way in over my head. They were cranky, I was cranky. Cub Central was CRANKY. So now they go on Tuesdays and Thursdays and I think they are really enjoying it. I know I am. Even if I do nothing at all but sit at home and absorb the silence. It only lasts six weeks but I think it is our saving grace. I don't think we could have made it through the summer without it. Mom can only paint so many times in one day. That is Emily's current favorite activity. Paint, paint, paint. She loves it. She can sit at the table and paint for 30 minutes. I am not complaining about this! I think this is AWESOME! My complaint is that her twin counterpart can only paint for 30 seconds. So for over 29 minutes I have to listen to whining and moaning and complaining. I would love for him to do his own activity but he is a little attached to Mommy right now and for obvious reasons I can't leave Emily alone with the paint. I already have a newly decorated chair cover. So there is this constant need to be going in two directions at once. I can't seem to please them both, so summer Preschool to the rescue.

Grandma and Grandpa Bear were here two weekends ago (even though it feels like two months ago). They volunteered to cubsit while Steve and I took a mini-vacation. It was the first time Steve and I had been away from the cubs together. We stayed two nights at the Four Seasons in Las Colinas. We stayed in a villa right off the 18th green. Steve was acting like a little boy on Christmas morning. He got to play two rounds of golf while I made good use of the spa. I even took a few naps and enjoyed reading a book poolside. It was amazing. I only called to check up on the cubs a few times. I thought I did pretty well.

We purchased a cedar play set for the cubs, complete with swings, a slide, a rock wall, and a fort. Grandpa Bear came a day early to help us install it. We are now waiting on a few replacement parts (some were damaged in shipping). I can't wait to get it completed. The swings are up and the cubs love them, but I know the slide will be the biggest hit.

I celebrated my birthday with four of the best girls ever. I had a blast at Brio's! Five girls, four bottles of wine, and the best $2.99 appetizers EVER! Their appetizer special was from 3-7pm and 9-11pm, and yes, we were there to cover both of them. We then topped the night off at the Cheesecake Factory. Yummy!

I guess it's time to let Steve tell me everything I left out. I'll make myself a list and cover it in the next post. Next month. That seems to be the posting pattern now. I laughed when I noticed that I posted 118 entries in 2008 and 170 entries in 2009. No chance for that this year....only 39 entries so far and it's already July. Urgh.

The cubs turn three!!

On April 28th, the cubs turned 3!!

Frosting face.:

A lot of playing, not much eating.:


It's so hard to believe that the cubs are three. I look back in amazement, and I can't believe how small they were, and how far they have come. They are our precious little miracle cubs!!

We had a small celebration with Grandma and Grandpa Bear. The cubs aren't big cake eaters, so cupcakes were perfect. They were fascinated with the candles and enjoyed all the extra attention.

Happy birthday CUBS!!!

Happy Birthday, Grandma Bear!!!

Cub Central is sending birthday wishes to Grandma Bear! We love you very much and can't wait to see you in a few weeks!! Hope you have a wonderful day!!

Birthday wishes!

April is a very popular month for birthdays!

Grandma Shirley celebrated her birthday on April 3rd and Uncle Craig celebrated his on April 4th. The 4th was also my grandfather's 89th birthday!! We are belated with our blog wishes, but we did get to send our wishes by phone. We sure wish we were closer and could see everyone more often....but all of you are certainly in our thoughts...on your birthdays and always!

Happy Birthday to Great-Grandma Betty

Yesterday was Great-Grandma Betty's birthday and we hope she had a wonderful day!! We don't get to see her very often but we are sending lots of Cub Love and well wishes!

We had to go to the archives to find this picture of Zach playing with Great-Grandma Betty. Zach still loves a good game of peek-a-boo!

Happy Birthday, Grandpa Bear!!

Everyone here at Cub Central wants to wish Grandpa Bear a Happy Birthday! We love him very much and we can't wait for him to visit soon so we can go kite flying together again. We hope he had a wonderful day today!!!

Happy Birthday, Auntie Leslie!

I was trying to update the blog chronologically but realized that it may be a while before I make it through the week. A week's worth of good pictures takes forever to upload. So I am jumping ahead to Saturday (Sept.12), which was Auntie Leslie's birthday! Everyone at Cub Central wishes Auntie Leslie (a very belated!) Happy Birthday!! We hope you had a fabulous day!!


















Another picture from the archives, a hint that someone needs to come visit so we can get some more recent photos. ha ha!

Happy Birthday, Grandpa John!

Today is Grandpa John's birthday and we are sending tons of hugs and kisses his way. We had to dig in the archives for photos since we haven't gotten to see Grandma Shirley and Grandpa John since last November, but we are really looking forward to their visit in just a few weeks! Happy Birthday, Grandpa John!

Happy Birthday, Daddy!!

Today is Daddy's birthday. Even though he spent it working, we still hope he had a wonderful day!! We are planning on spending some quality family time together this weekend to celebrate your big day. We love you!!

Lots of pictures with a little commentary.

Thank you to everyone for all of the awesome birthday gifts. Our cubs are well-loved!! Here are just a few of the birthday pictures.

They weren't big fans of the cupcakes. Don't worry, they didn't go to waste, Mom and Dad took care of them.:



Holding all of her outfits from Great-Grandma Betty and Tom. Included are the cutest swimsuits....perfect to go with the fun outdoor sprinkler they received from Grandma and Grandpa Bear.


Elmo phone and CD player from Grandma Shirley and Grandpa John:


Emily is all about the phone:


Caught red-handed trying to break into the Sand and Sea play table that Uncle Craig and Auntie Leslie sent. We can't wait for the weather to clear up so we can play.:


Zach is trying to distract me so I won't notice that Emily is still trying to break into the box.

Starting our own band.

Grandma and Grandpa Bear brought musical gifts so the cubs could start their own band.

Books first:


Checking out the new keyboard...:


...and the electronic drum set:


Enjoying the simple life. What could be better than a huge box? It's fort making time.:

Golf anyone??

The cubs each received their first set of golf clubs from Grandpa John and Grandma Shirley for their birthday.

Dad loves it and can't wait to take them out on the course.

Mom just has one word to say about all of this: "FORE!!!"