Ninjago Party

I loved the invites we made.   I REALLY wish I'd looked up how to spell Spinjitzu before I'd printed them.  :-( 

We made these awesome Ninja pops.  I still have tons (any takers??)

Cute little takeout boxes and printed stickers made awesome favors.

Our Ninja cake

Printed water bottles

We played ninja, ninja, serpentine.

Pin the ninja star on Pythor.

There was a dragon pinata.

We made our own nunchucks and did lots and lots of fighting, running and ka yahing.  A great time was had by all!

Happy Birthday baby!

SEVEN!

Really?  My baby is seven already?  Time has passed so quickly.  I sure love this kid - he's funny and imaginative and sweet and smart and I'm so grateful he's mine!  Happy Birthday Shea! 

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2012

The Tulip Festival

My wonderfully sweet Aunt Julie called in early April and invited us to go to the Tulip festival at Thanksgiving Point.  We had such as wonderful day with her, Callie and Grandma Itha!  The kids LOVED running around, being wild, exploring and picking out all their favorite flowers!

I wish I'd had my camera not just my phone.  The tulips were soooo gorgeous. 

I must have liked the yellow ones the best.  :-)

I love this one of the kids talking to my sweet little Grandma.  So precious.

Easter 2012

Our first snowy Easter!  The kids thought it was cool, but I just kept thinking about all our glorious, warm LA Easter egg hunts with our wonderful friends and I was a bit sad we were alone in our snowy backyard.  But that aside, we had a lot of fun together!

The day before Easter:  

On Easter, it had warmed up, but we still hid some eggs in the snow.

Fionn's first Easter was a smashing success.  He LOVED it!  He was thrilled to be allowed to pick up colorful balls all over the yard, and he was over the moon when one split open and he discovered candy inside.  That ended the hunt and started the gorging!  :-) 

Dying Easter eggs.  

Loved these Pinterest Easter cupcakes!  Piece of cake!

The kids became obsessed this year with the Easter Bunny's size - so they left him a note.  In case you're curious - the bunny is not the size of a regular bunny, he's BIG!  :-)  (So he can carry all those baskets and treats.) And he ate all his carrots.  :-)

Happy Easter my sweet gorgeous muffins! 

Holi festival

I can't believe we took the kids to this.  My stroller, 2 months later is still disgusting and color stained.  The laundry afterward was hideous and all the bathtubs had to be seriously scrubbed.  So, with that out of the way - it was a riot!!  Clare was completely not thrilled to have color thrown on her and spent most of the time hiding under the stroller and frowning.  She got over it before we left and ended up having a lot of fun.   Shea, Chris and Fionn were in heaven the entire time.  I think we'll definitely go again.

Instagram

I'm addicted.  In a future life when I have money and time I might need to be a photographer.  It's so fun to take a picture and think that it's beautiful and really captures a moment or personality.
  

Oh what?  This one needs an explanation?  :-)  He found some cardboard and decided it had to be a rhino horn.  Love his rhino face?  I do!