Delaneys 10th Birthday Dinner!

Tonight we went out for Delaney's birthday dinner....she chose Red Robin.  We had a great meal with a great waiter who made her a rose.

We made her sit all through dinner with her gifts in front of her.  Finally we let her rip into them, and they were mama wrapped specials, meaning tons of tape and wrapped over and over in tissue paper.

She got headphones, 2 ipod covers and a nano!!

Here is the awesome sundae they made for her!!  My baby girl is double digits!!

Happy 10th Birthday Delaney!! January 19th, 2000

Happy 10th Birthday baby girl!! 10 years ago today you decided to wait till just after 1 AM to make sure your birthday would never be forgotten, you were born on Mom and Dad's anniversary!  You are turning into quite the little young lady, even if you dont like pink anymore!

Here you are at 5 days old.

Here's Delaney at age 2! This is the time she got ahold of the scissors and created a stylish bang job!

Delaney at 4!

Here she is at 6, right after a school program about apples.

Delaney at 8, we had a High School Musical Sleepover that year!

Here is Delaney at 9 years and 11 months and 12 days.  Her most recent pic!

We are having a party at Peter Piper Pizza on Friday, and she doesnt know shes getting her own Ipod at her birthday dinner.  She choose Red Robin!!

The wonderful sound of music!!

Codys band teacher had choosen him to switch to the baritone as his band didnt have one. She thought he would do great, and he has picked it right up. Within 10 minutes he sounds better on this than he did on the trombone, and man is it a much nicer sound!!

Playing some racquetball!

So after living here for over a year, we thought we would take advantage of some of the cool stuff available to us other than just the pool.  This morning we ventured down to the clubhouse to play some racquetball.  The kids brought home some awesome grades yesterday and it was a nice reward!  It was the first time any of us had played and by the end the kids were catching on pretty nicely.  Definitely something we need to do again in the near future!!  Enjoy the pics!

Phoenix ZooLights!!

Normally we do ZooLights before Christmas, but that didnt happen this year.  Here we are on New Years Day!!  The Bartz Crew, Da Smiths minus Jason, and Nana all ventured out into the not that chilly night to see all the pretty lights!

The evening started with some food and balloons(thanks Nana) at Texas Roadhouse.  I cant believe I dont have pics of all the balloon animals!

This is one of the first trees you see when you walk in!! b-e-a-utiful!

Here is my monkey with a monkey at the zoo!

Some gorgeous light displays!

I love this pic of the moon I took!

Another shot of all the kids!

And here is the group pic as we were leaving!  A great evening had by all. Thanks for joining us guys!