Since the boys' birthdays are less than two weeks apart, we foresee many joint parties in the future and 2009 was the first. We had their party at our house on Saturday, Nov. 14. It was just family, but it was fun! Nana and Papa and Aunt Erin were in attendance but Aunt Stacey was sick so she and Uncle Marc kept their germs in Chicago. Grandma and Grandpa and Aunt Angela made the drive from Peoria. Because Simon is too little to understand birthday themes, we let Harmon pick and, surprise, he picked Cars. We decorated with Cars stuff everywhere and got yummy Cars cakes from Just Baked in Twelve Oaks Mall. While we weren't in love with the Lightning McQueen cake (it looked like the decorator kept messing up and then just adding MORE frosting to cover the mistakes), we loved the two smaller cakes we got - Luigi for Harmon and Guido for Simon.Before we cut the cakes, we downed pizza, salad and breadsticks (regular and Harmon's favorite, cinnamon) from Pizza House and then headed to the basement to open all the gifts. It was like Christmas down there - these boys are so spoiled! Both boys got so many nice things - thanks to our all-too-generous families. Harmon opened all his gifts and then started in on Simon's, too. Simon got tired so we stopped with the presents and put him down for a quick nap. He actually ended up opening the rest of his gifts later in the week. After he woke up, we sang happy birthday and they both looked so sweet sitting together taking it all in (at top). I hope we can catch a photo like that every year!
Happy birthday, boys!
