Samantha and Katherine's Birthdays

Here are some pictures from Samantha's and Katherine's birthday celebrations. We had a great time with family who came out to help us celebrate.

We had a beach theme for Samantha's birthday since she had been talking about the beach for some time. She really enjoys our beach weeks in the summer and had been asking if we could go again. So we made her a sandcastle cake and played beach themed games. We play with moon sand, hid shells around the living room for the kids to find and played Seashell Memory. For Seashell Memory, I glued pictures of us at the beach underneath seashells and they matched them up just like in Memory.

Here is Samantha telling us how old she is - holding up 4 fingers. Notice she's dressed all in purple - from head to toe. It's her most favorite color!

Opening presents and the chaos in the living room:

Katherine loves books! Here's grandma reading to her.

A devoured cake! (I'm wishing I had some right now!)

And Samantha and Mike playing her new Cranium Jr. game.

We celebrated Katherine's birthday too that day but on a smaller scale for her because our focus was mainly for Samantha, it being closer to Samantha's birthday. A couple weeks later we had a small family celebration for Katherine and made her a yummy chocolate cake and opened presents.