One of my best friends Suzy takes professional pictures. She is awesome. 
Isn't she gorgeous. She is so photogenic. More pictures to come.
Welcome to the life of the Cookies

If you don't know what it is, it's the Monster symbol. Pretty cool. What do you think?

Austin opening his presents.
This is called Bakugan, Austin and his friends are obsessed with them. Every time we looked for them at the store, they were all gone. So we lucked out to find a pack of 6.
So when we went to order his cake he chose a transformer cake, the gal that was helping us, asked Austin what he wanted it to say, he chose " Happy Birthday From Optimus Prime." Pretty cool. We ate pizza and cake then headed out doors. It was really cold so we went from outside to the inside pretty fast. Ben got the extra ticket, so he took the kids everywhere, and I got to sit back and make sure we didn't lose anyone.
So again from 3 p.m. to about 9 p.m. long party, but I think he had a blast. Until next year.




Alex helping Austin get completely cover in shaving cream.

Tessa getting even at Austin, for throwing it in her hair.

So because of my brilliant idea, not only do I have to clean up hate paint mess, I also had to clean this mess up. Word of advise, if you need the kids out of your hair while you are painting, get them a movie or playing a board game. Or do it when the kids are at school.