Happy Birthday Tana!!!

Tana is a girl from work(the red head in the blue dress). Her family wasn't going to do anything for her birthday, so I decided that I needed some Princess Party throwing practice. Tana and her friends came dressed as princesses and I dressed Avah up as belle. Avah had a ton of fun talking to Snow White. We had dinner outside, broke open a castle shaped pinata, and then went inside to watch a princess movie, and eat cake.
I think It went pretty good. I thought dinner tasted great. I made chicken Alfredo, salad, and garlic bread. The only problem we had with the pinata is all the candy I now have left over.

This is the fun cake I made. It looks a lot better than it tasted. There was just too much frosting and candy. If you ate a big piece you would definitely get sick. It was a lot of fun though, and great practice for when I let Avah have a party.
(I really hope Tana had fun as it was all for her. She is such a sweet and funny girl.)

Oh by the way Andy is going to join the Army. He needs to do some college to be able to start where he wants to, but he will have that done in a semester. I'll blog more as it develops I'm sure.

Our 2010 trip to the Zoo

Hey, all, Andy here. Hope you like the updates to the blog. The old one reminded me of old people, (no offense) and I like the new design. And the name change of our blog to plain old Hilton Family cuz, lets face it, we aint ever gonna live at a chateau.

Anyway, so today we went to the zoo. I like the zoo. Especially when it's not crowded. We showed up almost right when it opened, around 9, and had a good time looking at monkeys, penguins, tigers, and the baby elephant. We even went to the bird show they have and Avah really liked the big hawks flying right over people's heads. The birds grazed peoples hair and they were only a few feet from where we were sitting, so not too close to freak out the kids, but close enough to see really well.

Of course, no trip is complete without a ride on the carousel. They went twice. I was gonna let Avah go three times and Sarah just one, but it's so much easier to have em both on at the same time. (plus favoritism issues) I snuck some pictures of Rachel too. (rather forced her to pose) She was a good sport, so I didn't torment her too much. We left around noon, (it was getting hot) and Sarah was out like a light as soon as we started driving home. It was a lot of fun.