Birthdays!

and we just keep on party-ing!!!!

 Our traditional picture of the birthday people-before we went out to have dinner at Chili's and had molten lava cake for dessert and the waiters sang to us!

 Daddy and Ashley with her birthday rose!  A tradition that Grandpa Larry always did for Emily and Jodi on their birthdays that Greg has carried on.

 Ashley was curious about the presents!

 Opening one from the Gregorys-a cute bag, a doll with pink hair that Ashley has named Christina, and some new books

 Ashley has decided that Christina is better than all of her other dolls to sleep with because she is so soft and is planning to bring her with us this summer for home leave!

 From Jake, Emily, and their girls-a new green dress-up dress that looks a lot like Tinkerbell

 a yellow little pony

 and some more books

 from us-a Minnie Mouse shirt

 new Leap pad games

 another new dress-up dress that she would probably wear in China if we let her-I suggested maybe she wait for United Nations day at school next year-you don't have to dress up in something from your home country!

The new dress twirls really great!

 Greg and I also gave her a lego kit with Olivia and her treehouse.  We had to build it right away!

 Scott and Ryan had been gone all day, celebrating with 2 brothers they are friends with who had had their first communion.  So Scott opened his gifts when they got home.

from Emily, Jake and the girls-a Geronimo Stilton book and a kit to build a model whale shark!

 from Jodi, Chris, Katie, Ian, and Maggie a book about comic book heroes and a Captain America kit to build

 

 Legos and his scuba class were the gifts from Greg and I this year

 The birthday girls on Sunday after church

 Ashley showing off her new VERY purple dress and new Sunday shoes with bows on them.  I found this dress at the American Women's Club bazaar for 600 pesos about $14