Ole!

Last night we had a few friends over to celebrate Cinco de Mayo. We had Enchiladas Barbacoas, chips and salsa, spanish rice, black beans, guacamole, quesadillas, and sopapilla cheesecake squares...with a few dos equis and blue agave with grapefruit and elderflower drinks mixed in...yummy!

Landon LOVED having 4 other kids to run around and play with during the evening. Phillip and I commented on how we were actually able to relax and enjoy our dinner with the adults, because Landon was safely occupied with his friends - who all are older than he is, and very good at watching after each other.

The kids laughed, and laughed, and laughed some more, sat down so nicely together and ate dinner, ran around outside, and enjoyed dessert in the yard. One of the children, Leo (remember him from the contemplative lake picture of he and Landon both staring out over the water?) was having so much fun that he didn't want to go home!

He told his parents "I want to stay at Candice's house (poor Phillip gets no credit - even though he pays for the house!). His parents thought that he would quickly change his mind when he realized that the rest of his family was leaving, so they said "Ok, you can stay here tonight". To which Leo unexpectedly ran over to Landon and excitedly said "I'm staying at your house tonight!!!"

At this point Landon hopped off the slide, ran over to the adults and started jumping up and down, talking a mile a minute - presumably planning activities for his first sleepover! Ashley (Leo's Mom) and I were almost tearing up over how sweet the two boys were and were heartbroken to tell Leo that he couldn't actually stay the night, being only 2 years old after all. They were so cute that I told Ashley, "he can stay the night...he can sleep in Landon's big boy bed". As it ended up though, after a few talks about how much the rest of Leo's family would miss him if he stayed at our house, he happily went home with his parents and older brother and sister...

So that was our Cinco de Mayo - love those holidays in the Lewis household! Of course, no self-respecting Cinco de Mayo party would be complete without moustaches (pronounced moos-tatchez) of course...