Camden's Birthday (3.45 years and 21 months)

We always knew we wanted to go to Camden's first birthday party.  We love first birthday parties.  I think they are the best and so much fun.  However Brian's work schedule did not work too great with the timing of his party.   I considered driving down early myself however with Austin's soccer on Mondays that did not seem reasonable.  So we left Wednesday around 3:30pm.  We drove for a while but Austin would need a potty break and we stopped for about an hour for dinner.  It seemed like it was taking forever to get half way there.  Finally around 10pm we made it to our cheap hotel.  Brian found this great deal of hotel and best of all it was clean!  We carried Austin and Sydney up to the room and luckily they stayed asleep.

The next morning we drove the rest of the way in.  We arrived at Melissa's however she was not too happy when Austin rang the doorbell and Camden was sleeping.  We did not stay there so Camden could sleep.  We went over to Nana's house.  That evening we all went out to dinner.  The kids were pretty good and it was nice that Austin was with Nana and Grandpa most of them time.

On Friday, it was cool in the morning so we couldn't go the pool until afternoon.  We went to the playground instead in the morning.  Austin got to drive the golf cart so he was so happy.  Then after nap we went to the pool and beach.  Austin and Sydney love the beach.  They like the sand and playing in it.  We were there for a few hours.  After dinner, Grandpa had to go put Camden to bed (Melissa and Jonathan went out to dinner) so the rest of us went for ice cream.  Sydney really enjoyed her ice cream!

On Saturday morning we went to a large playground park.  Austin loved it.  Sydney tried to do everything Austin did.  Sydney and Camden would play on the little slides too.  It was cute.  Then we went back to the beach after nap.  Again they had fun.  That evening we went on a long golf cart ride.  It was cool.  Austin and Nana had jokes that Grandpa left the refrigerator door open.  It was cute.

On Sunday was Camden's big party.  We all went to the big playground park in the morning  The weather was only in the 60's so the pool party was out. However the party was still at the pool. There was no way the kiddos were swimming in that cold of temperatures.  Brian and I decided since the birthday party was during their normal nap time and the drive is so long that we were leaving right after the party and driving home.

Melissa did an excellent job with his party.  The decorations and food was great.  Brian took some great pictures.  Camden seemed to like his party.  He was not sure what to do with his cake though. Finally he took a few bites but he wasn't impressed.  Towards the end of the party Austin and Sydney were getting cranky.  They wanted to be with Brian but he was busy with pictures and they didn't understand that.  And with the party at the pool I was a nervous wreck they would end up in the pool and we wouldn't notice because we would think someone else had them. So right after the party we got in the car and started driving home.  Sydney was asleep within 5 minutes of driving.  Austin fell asleep within a half hour.

We decided that we just wanted to get home so we drove all the way that night.  We got in around 2am.  We stopped for dinner but made the kids eat in the van.  Brian needed to go to work on Monday so we wanted to get home as early as possible.  Plus we knew the kids would be up at 6 am.  When we got home, Austin was awake.  He laid on the couch with me and finally feel back asleep.  We got a few hours of sleep before the day began again.  The kids had fun down there. They really enjoyed the beach and the golf cart.