Happy Half-Birthday

As you may remember, we celebrate "half-birthdays" around here since the girls were both born during snowstorms! Yesterday was Serena's 12 1/2 birthday celebration. With the completion of the pool deck, we "decked" it out in a water theme. You may be thinking pool water, but it was actually more of a bottled water theme. Weird, I know, but you don't know Serena. She has been obsessed with drinking water lately. She fills up a big water bottle each day at least twice. She always has to have her water with her wherever we go. The party theme is always about what the girls are obsessed with at the time, so water it is! The cake was from an old Family Fun magazine. While it's a swimmer with a snorkel, the Natalie joke around the house is "Serena is going to drown from drinking all that water"! Of course, no party is complete until someone gets thrown in the pool! Natalie jabbed Serena, which caused her to dump her bottled water on herself, so she jumped up, grabbed her sister and threw her in the pool. Nat didn't think it was cool for a big sister to get overtaken by the little one. I just laughed, little sister that I am as well, knowing that no one wants revenge more than the younger one! I warned her not to push Serena, as she may be younger, but she is super strong! So, Nat spent part of the evening being silently angry at the half-birthday girl. Serena, being the peacemaker, decided to even the score by allowing Nat to throw her in the pool too. That girl will do anything to get on her sister's good side. One day I'm sure that will get old, but they'll work it out, I'm sure. We've been doing these parties for a few years now, and while they aren't true birthday parties with guests and gifts, they have been our favorite parties so far. It has been one way we have been forcing ourselves to stop and just have some unnecessary fun while honoring one of our own! And who doesn't want a birthday gift 6 months before your birthday, right?