Birthday Celebrations

September is always a busy birthday month. Particulary the second week, with Gunnar's birthday on the 9th and Maria's on the 11. I wasn't sure if I was going to be up to partying this year or not, but I managed to pull it off.

For Gunnar's birthday (the big 35 on 09-09-09), we decided to go to Corvette Dinner. This was mostly becuase when we had gone in July, Grace was mezmorized by the servers singing and dancing happy birthday to the people sitting near us and asked if we could come back for someones birthday. It just so happened, that we had to go to Best Start that day for a follow up appointment, so we decided to go, since we were already in the neighborhood. We were joined by most of my family (minus Daniel who had to work) and Gunnar's dad. The food, shakes and most of all, the company were terrific.

The birthday boy

The birthday girl

Grace enjoying all the birthday festivities

Grandma Ta and two of her adorable grandaughters

The group, minus Michael and Dick who had already leftOn Maria's birthday, there was a sing-a-long sound of music party. If you have never been to a sing-a-long Sound of Music party, you should go (or host) one. It was even more appropriate for Maria's birthday, for obvious reasons.

My dad went all out and made an awesome program. I think Kevin might have helped a bit with the picture. How awesome is this?

Tell me you aren't humming "How do you solve a problem like Maria" now. :)
I didn't take too many pictures, as I was exhausted. But here is one of Grandpa with the cousins. I took a bunch of pictures, proving that getting three little girls to look cute in the same picture is near to impossible.

Maria Elizabeth with baby Elizabeth. Such adorable girls!