Celebrating James

I love when the holidays kick into full gear. We start with Halloween, then Penelope's birthday in November, the Christmas festivities and then in January we get to celebrate James! Yay! James is one of the most giving, selfless people I know. This applies to so many things: his time, money, energy and sometimes even "giving in" when he doesn't have too- (like those notorious arguments we can all get into ladies!) LOL His priority is his family, so much so that I never want him to feel overlooked. So for his birthday I planned a weekend in LA for us. His mom watched the baby and I surprised him with a night in a beautiful suite at the London in West Hollywood. Our friends Tony and Cynthia joined us for dinner at the Gordon Ramsay restaurant (James loves Gordon Ramsay) and our friends Tony and Yvonne hung out with us the next day at the pool. Of course his birthday didn't stop there. My parents celebrated him the week before with dinner at their house, and tonight some family and friends met up at Arnoldi's for Italian food and bocci ball. I love you baby bear. You are the light of my life. I don't know what I would do without you. Thank you for being so caring, loving, fun, and for just being YOU!

Happy Birthday, I love you!

James and his little brother Patrick playing bocci ball at Arnoldi's

Penelope had fun watching them play

James and BFF Tony lounging-sooo embarrassing

Ok I guess I can't talk at some point they convinced me to get on too!

right after we checked in on Saturday.
I loved the rooftop pool because the views of LA were amazing,
we were literally laying there staying at the LA skyline

me and my girl Cindy

Tony's birthday was the next day!
55! You would never guess it!
You look gooood Tony :)

Birthday Boys at Dinner

kickin it by the fire after dinner

Hanging out at my parents house on January 8th for the Saints Game and a little crawfish etouffee for James's bday

All the little monkeys...

Last Sunday was the party of all parties... a one year old ultimate birthday at My Gym. Graham Millington was the lucky little boy with the parents who love him soooo much they thought of this great idea. All the kids had a BLAST! Penelope was in heaven, and afterward EVERYONE was tired- parents and kids. I got some really cute pics so lets get this party started!

Penelope taking it all in before she dives right in!

the birthday boy with BFF Kenzie, how cute are they?!

Penelope and Alana- total girls through and through

hey, they match!

Penelope is now obsessed with slides after her park date with Graham

shaking the parachute

thanks Ms Cherise! Yay!!!

beach balls hanging from strings, genius

Sammie sporting his haircut, how handsome

Kalista having a ball!

Kenzie loved rolling around on this mat!

lobster lady is gonna get you!!!

Sam walks now, yay!

awwww how tweet

Kelby never knows if he wanna gives kisses or pull hair, its a toss up.

Laurel

the race to the top!

every kids dream, a ball pit!

Felix was just chillin in there! LOL

These were moving pillars, pretty cool

another moving object they had to crawl in, tricky tricky!

and yes they even had a train!

cake time! Here comes the birthday boy making his grand entrance in his cool blue car

Oh yeah that's goooood

and if that wasn't enough, now bubbles?! Yeah

we're not done yet Penelope, you get to ride the rocket ship zip line,
she doesn't quite know what to think of this one

oooh now she's got it!

Yay! Happy Birthday Mister Graham Millington
We sure do love hanging out with you and your mommy
We are very proud of you.
xoxoxoxo