Happy 9th Birthday Sammy!

Do all moms say this on every one of their kids birthdays? 

"Where has the time gone?"

I still can't believe that my "Sam Sam" is 9 years old today!

My baby has grown up to be such a fun, funny, bright light in our family.  Life is NEVER boring when Sammy is around.  This Birthday was all about Bionicles and Lego Space Police!  He only wanted to have his party at Chuck E. Cheese Who Hoo! So off we all went to Chuck E. Cheese at 10:00am this morning! . . .Good Times!

Sam and Lucy waking up this morning

to the annual "birthday decorated bedroom" and present!

at Chucky's with his hat and Medal on!

Lucy, Sam and Max

Sam surrounded by his Best Buddies!

Chucky came out and did a little show for us,

We all got really into it!  I was crying laughing at one point watching all of our awesome friends screaming and cheering for Chucky right along with Sam. . . so funny!

Lucy and Papa

Once again, Grammy and Papa came to the rescue with Grammy's homemade (from scratch) cupcakes.  Thank You Grammy and Papa!

The whole gang with Chucky!!!!

I got a picture of all of us crazy adults totally getting into the Chucky show!  We were screaming and chanting like he was a rock star!  Chucky was eating it up!

Christmas Card Picture?

. . . with Chucky?

Mmmmmmm . . . .

The best part about havng a party at Chuck E Cheese at 10:00am on a Sunday morning is that you get the whole place to yourself!  You may be asking yourself why we chose 10:00am?  Well, Lucy got invited to another birthday party at 1:00 and Max's playoff football game got scheduled for 1:00 too!  Our family schedule is so busy, we have trouble finding a time to have a birthday party!

It actually ended up being a really fun and easy party!  Thank you so much to all of our friends who made it out to celebrate Sam's Birthday with us!

PS Max's football team, who have won all of thier games this whole season, got beat handily in their first playoff game today.  It was such a bummer to see them lose.  The good news is that they still get to play at Autzen Stadium next Saturday, its just not for the State Championship now.  Max seems Ok with this and I am just happy that there is an end to football in sight!