Our Very Own Tinker Bell

If you haven't guessed by now, Selah is a bit Tinker Bell obsessed. GiGi and PopPop gave her this adorable costume for her birthday. When she put it on last night, I just had to do a little impromptu photo session....

Selah is 2 cute!!

Selah turned 2 on Tuesday!! I can't believe what a big girl she has become! She is a joy and a blessing to all of us!!

Birthday Celebrations!!!

While in Central Texas, we had birthday celebrations for Selah's 2nd Birthday! It has become a Serna Family Tradition to celebrate birthdays at Casa Ole - so Friday night we headed over for some yummy Tex-Mex and Serna time!

Here is the Cousin Table:

Selah LOVES it when we are at a restaurant and the servers come out to sing to the Birthday person - so we had to have them do it for her - Look how excited she is!!

Such a big dessert for such a little girl!

MMMMMmmmmmm!!!

The next day we had a little Tinker Bell party at GiGi's house. The cake was a joint effort - I made the gluten-free chocolate cake, GiGi decorated it, and Rachel served it! It was soooo
yummy!!

The pinata was so much fun - it is a pull-string pinata. Good thing, I think if we started beating Tinker Bell with a stick, Selah would be mortified!!

Gift Time~!

Some of the guests...

Finally the cake she had been eyeing since breakfast!

A week with GiGi and PopPop...

The kids and I spent last week with GiGi and PopPop in Belton, Texas. We had so much fun! Some highlights included a play date with the Evan's children, lots of time with GiGi, PopPop, Memaw and Papaw, Uncle John and Aunt Louise, and Selah's first big screen movie - Toy Story 3D!

This is a picture of Selah and Gabe joining PopPop in his weekend paper reading - they are using thier 3D glasses as reading glasses!

This is Papaw, Uncle John and Justin. These 3 have served in 3 different wars, in 3 different branches of the military - Air Force, Navy and Army. Justin and his sister Katy (my cousins) were able to make it down for a visit and lunch - and while they were there, we were able to shower Katy with a few gifts for the blessing she will be getting in August - a baby girl!!

Bunk Beds!!!

In preparation of our newest baby, we bought bunk beds. For the first time, Gabe and Selah will be sharing a room. They LOVE their new beds and play so well in thier room together. I am working on some VeggieTales decoartions per their request. Here they are enjoying thier bunks!!

Story Time with the Clowns

As part of the Library Summer Reading Program, two of the Ringling Bros. clowns came to entertain us! What fun! Both kids were laughing hysterically the entire time!!

This was Selah's favorite part - she was laughing so hard, she started turning red!

It is story time after all - so Monday the clown read "C is for Clowns".

A duet - Slappy on the concertina and Monday on the saw....

As you can see from Gabe's HUGE smile - we had a great time - thanks to Southwest Regional Library and Slappy and Monday!

Summer Reading Program

The kids and I have been attending story time at our local library nearly every Wednesday for the past several months. During the summer, the library is hosting a Summer Reading Program. All we had to do was commit to read everyday for two weeks! Easy! We finished our two week Wednesday! Way to go Serna kids!!

Here they are with their certificates of completion.

They each also were able to choose any book from the children's section to put a label in saying they completed the program. (The glances to the right are due to me trying to take pictures while the tv is on....maybe I should have turned off PBS kids!)

Selah chose her current fav, Chicka, Chicka, Boom, Boom - or as she calls it "Boom-Boom book"

Gabe choose a Magic Tree House book. We have already read 2 of these and he is hooked! Great introduction to "chapter books".

They also recieved tickets to the circus and the Museum of Science and Natural History - maybe features in future blog posts?!?! So fun! I love that my kiddos have both developed a love for books and for reading. I hope they continue to love to read throughout their lives.