Birthday Weekend

Friday, September 12th was Jim's and my Mom's birthdays. To celebrate for Jim, we went to dinner at Chevy's and then we came home and opened gifts and had cake. Jacob got to pick out his gift for Daddy - and signed his Spongebob card from him and Levi. Jacob wanted to give Daddy the wallet - and handed Jim the gift bag and told him "here's your wallet, Daddy!" So much for the surprise!!!We had gotten rid of all of our matches when we moved - so Jim had to go next door to the neighbor to borrow some matches - for lighting his own cake! We sang and he got to blow out candles - and then we gorged ourselves on carrot cake - Jim's favorite.

Then we just hung out and had a good time - while Levi crawled around with underwear on his head......he is silly :)

Then on Sunday we went to my brother Joey's and wife Ofelia's house to have a bbq. They have a cool new pool with a great covered patio and playground area for the kids.

Levi loved the water. He would have stayed in there forever. But - he started getting a lil chilly.

Jacob wasn't as excited to get in the water. He wanted to do it in his own time.....on his own terms. He would rather play with the light saber......

We hung out by the chips and dips.....really - there were several kinds.......:)

Uncle Joey is holding the lil swimmer Levi now. Antonio just turned 5 and is a fish in the water - he dives off the end, does cannonballs, and swims all over.

Cousin Salma loves "baby Levi." She is 2 1/2 and didn't want to go swimming either - but she followed Levi around everywhere. They had fun!

The kids were rolling the ball back and forth. They were playing really well together.

We had a fire extinguisher ready - just in case :) My mom blowing out the candles on the chocolatey chocolate cake - with chocolate chips and shaved chocolate on top. More diet cake!