Pump It Up

Recently I feel like I haven't had much to share with everyone! But than I look through my phone and realize 'well I could group this together' or 'I barely have any pictures for this,' but I figured, why not share! A week or two ago, the Rohe's and myself traveled on down south towards Bethesda, MD for a family friends birthday celebration! My sister and brother in law met Silvi back in the day and have remained friends since. Silvi and Kevin's daughter Kate was turning five and have a bash at Pump It Up! Pump It Up is basically a giant warehouse with about ten enormous inflatable moon bounces, obstacle courses etc. Let me tell you, Hannah loves these things and little did we know, Natalie would too.

Girl has some serious flexibility! 

Napping on the way down, she must have known she needed to be well rested. 

 We arrived around 1 o'clock, had to sign some waivers and watch a safety video. Natalie was pretty much already in her glory, she could crawl instead of being in her car seat.

The party was for about three hours. In one room, you got to bounce for 45 minutes with three different bouncy houses. The first room was the 'glow in the dark' room. Each child was given a different color light up necklace and then lead on their way. Hannah was in Heaven!! Natalie also was! I think Shawn was a little hesitate about taking her in these houses with rowdy children running around. But after finally taking her in and seeing the pure joy and smile on that child's face, I'm pretty certain Shawn and Ben as well were happy to see their daughter interacting with peers.

The lights came on, the employees whistled, it was time to move onto the next room with you guessed it, more bouncy houses! This one was even better! The houses were bigger and just more awesome!! I really enjoyed one obstacle course, I had to enter, climb up, and go down the slide. Easy right? Wrong! This thing was high, I have a fear of heights. But the ending feeling of sliding down the slide was amazing, I went airborne and figured out why there was netting for more than half of the slide.

Lights came on, whistles blew, time for pizza and cake!

She doesn't exactly like the cake, she likes the SUGAR! 

Silvi's '20th' birthday (Okay, she's not really 20 ;) ) happened a week before this party and since most of the family was here, Kevin had a little surprise for Silvi! A cake for her and for Kate!

Natalie adoring Cousin Max! 

Kate, Max and Silvi! 

Kevin picks out one heck of a cake! It's my new favorite and I expect it for my birthday, chocolate cake with strawberries inside and chocolate covered strawberries on the top! Silvi must have remembered how much I love chocolate covered strawberries, she graciously shared one with me!

You know it had to be one good party if both kids fells asleep on the way home!

For Shawn's recap of the party, click here! It's a tear jerker!