ANDRUS-R-US: Avril's Birthday Party!!

Avril's birthday party was celebrated a couple of weeks late - partly due to the fact that she was with her dad for the birthday weekend, and partly due to my procrastination at getting a venue set up. Everything seemed to be booked. Oh well. Everyone had a great time so no harm done! We had to have a late party on Saturday night and I was worried that no kids would be able to come at the later time, but wow, we had quite the turnout!! The gymnastics place actually turned out to be probably my favorite birthday party venue so far. It required very little effort on my part 😊

Avril warming up and stretching out!

My little sweetie pie sister!

The kids all warming up!

This little adorable guy especially had fun crawling all over the place!

Hmmm... which apparatus should I try next?

Avril finds a cool hide-out spot with some of her friends

Nana and her grandson

It's been a loooon time since I've been able to play on any gymnastics equipment. I was excited to try out a few moves and see if I still could do anything without injuring myself. I surprised myself at how much I could still do. I mean, no back-handsprings back tucks, but a few trampoline tricks and a bar move. Not too shabby for this old mama!! 😉
I mostly wanted to show off to my kids to say, "hey look, your mom is pretty cool!"

Caught a cute pic of Keeney just before these boys ran up to try to take over the equipment

this little guy was having a blast!

Avril wanted to show off a few of her moves too!
Awesome!

2 of the boys in Avril's class

the kids with Lyra (the piano teacher's daughter)

The kids were having so much fun playing at the gym, it was hard to get them to come in to the party room for cake and ice cream and presents! But we finally got everyone there 😊