Some Family Fun

On Friday night, since it was Bree's official birthday we had some family time. We took the girls to Incredible Pizza to eat dinner and play some games. Since it was their birthdays last week they got to spin the birthday wheel at IP. They both won a free attraction, they could choose from putt putt, bowling or go-carts. They both wanted to drive the go-carts, but seeing that they weren't tall enough they had to settle with riding as Chris and I drove. Of course the race turned a little competitive...... but the best did win...as you can see.

Katie got a ribbon that said First Place...she was so excited.

Bree was just excited to be experiencing her first go-cart ride...she had a grin on her face the whole time.

After dinner and games we went to the stores so the girls could spend some of their birthday money they got. It was a great birthday week with the girls and I do believe they loved it all as well.

Somebody's 3 Today???

Happy 3rd Birthday Munchkin!!!! We love you!

Today is Bree's big day. She is turning 3...as hard as that is to believe for me. I still see her as the little baby to me. I guess it is hard to realize that the baby days are gone and I know I have a toddler on her way to becoming a little girl. So a little bragging time on Bree...again if you don't already know Bree is a very special little girl. She is full of life and LOVES to be silly and play. She has a giggle that will make you laugh no matter what mood you are in. She is such a sweetie too. She loves to come up to you and say " give you a kiss" she puckers up and will give you a kiss and a hug. She also loves to cuddle, which I am so thankful for. Every night I still get to rock her. I value that little bit of time I get with her each night to spend with her and love on her. She loves her big sister and looks up to her so much. She loves to color...she has a little table at home and pretty much any given time you can find here there coloring. Dora is her favorite thing right now....I always say if Dora was a real person Bree might be a stalker. :) I am so thankful for her and the privilege to be her mom. The picture above is Bree in her birthday outfit for the day. She seemed so excited about Katie getting an outfit for her birthday that I went back and got Bree something special for her to wear on her day.

Cuties in Tutu's

I had to put this on here, because not only are these tutu's wonderful but they were made especially for Katie and Bree by their Aunt Joy. The girls loved them. A big thanks to Aunt Joy for doing such a wonderful job on them and for finding them time to make them. We love you Aunt Joy!

Let's Party

Last night we had a joint birthday party for Katie and Bree. It was at Party Time, they have a an indoor play area and an inflatable for the kids to play on. We have been to two other birthday parties here and it is very clean and nice place, plus it is reasonable priced for a kids birthday party. We had a wonderful time with the girls. Katie and Bree both were so excited the whole time and were very gracious host. Neither of them had melt downs which I was totally planning on. Bree was really making me smile because all evening long Bree just had a smile on her face. She just seem so excited to be having her first real birthday party with her friends. It was so precious. So now for some pictures. More are posted on picasa, too many to put on here.



We let Katie and Bree pick out what they wanted for their decoration and cake. Katie had Littlest Pet Shop and Bree stuck with ole faithful Dora. I asked Reasors to split the decorations on the cake. I thought the cake looked awesome. Both of the girls loved it.

A few of the decorations we put up, balloons and such.

The girls giving each other birthday hugs. They both really impressed me on sharing their birthday party. I have some amazing little girls.

Time to eat some pizza!!!

Look at Katie's facial expression here....she just saw her Ms. Laurie walk through the door. It was priceless. She didn't know that I invited her to the party. Ms. Laurie was one of their favorite teachers at their old school. Katie and Bree haven't seen her since they left at the end of January.

Katie with her Ms. Laurie....I just can't say enough about how wonderful she is and how much Katie and Bree love her.
Bree talking with her Ms. Laurie.... I love how they both call her their Ms. Laurie as if they own her.

Bree blowing out her candles.

Katie blowing out her candles

The beautiful birthday girl

I love this photo...She looks like she wasn't supposed to be eating her cake. She wore her dora b-day hat all night.

There are more pics on Picasa and below is a link to the video we took from the party, well some of it. I had to edit it but it is still kind of long, about 14 minutes. Everyone is more than welcome to view it, but the grandparents may be the only ones who really appreciate it.

http://www.onetruemedia.com/otm_site/view_shared?p=a6f0321c24ec929bf6a73f&skin_id=701

Who's 5 Now? This Cutie Is.

5 years ago today Katie came into this world to bless our family. She is truly a gift from God that we cherish each day and I thank Him for choosing Chris and I to be her parents. Katie is an amazing little girl, if you don't already know that about her. She is smart, sweet, compassionate towards others, loving, helpful, and the girl is into clothes and make-up. She loves to put together her own outfits. Some of them make me cringe a little, but I have learned to just let it go and let her wear what makes her feel good. Who knows maybe one day she will be on Project Runway designing her own clothes. She is very picky about what she wears. It is very rare that I can pick out clothes for her without her with me, but for her birthday I did pick her out an outfit to wear on her birthday, I just had my fingers crossed she would love it. So this morning I went in to wake her up, she wasn't quite ready to get up but then she hear the russeling of the paper of her gift and she popped straight up. She opened the gift and pulled out the outfit I picked for her. She looked at me and shouted " I LOVE IT", whew big relief for me. That was either going to be mean a good beginning of the day or a bad beginning. So here she is in her birthday outfit.

Happy 5th Birthday Katie Bear. We love you!

We had a joint birthday party for Katie and Bree tonight. I will post more about that later once I get all the pics and video uploaded.

Sitter Swap

Last month my friend Stef and I talked and decided that instead of paying for babysitters when we want a date night with our hubbys that we would just swap nights on babysitting each other kids. I am not sure why we didn't think of this sooner, plus our kids love to play together. It gets so expensive by the time you pay for the sitter, and then dinner and sometimes a movie. We thought we would do this once a month or every other month. We tried it out for Valentine's Day. The other Saturday Stef watched our kids and then this past Monday Chris and I watched their kids. We had a good time. I order some pizza for dinner and the kids were kid of tired so we just watched some movie and played around the house. I got some photos of the evening.

Dinner time...yummy pizza. Chris and I got 2 medium pizzas thinking that would be plenty to have so leftovers for the next day. When the kids were done eating the four of them ate a medium pizza plus a little of the second one. We had one slice left. Good eaters that night. Katie wasn't in this pic because she was having a minor melt down and was in her room composing herself. Braeden, Bree and Lydia enjoyed the dinner.


Well you can see what kind of mood Katie was still in. The other three were having a blast.


I thought this was a sweet photo. We were watching a movie and I looked over and saw Braeden and Bree in the bean bag together. Braeden was actually holding Bree's hand at one point. Braeden is such a sweet little boy.


We had fun that night letting the kids play and it is nice to have free babysitting so you can enjoy the an evening out without going broke.

What Momma Doesn't See

I meant to put this post on her the other week, but time just got away from me. I thought this was a funny story of the girls. I was told this story of what Katie and Bree did by the girls that were at our house for DNOW weekend.

On Saturday evening I had Katie and Bree sitting at a little table beside the big table the youth girls were at for dinner. Katie and Bree had just started eating dinner. They both had cucumbers on their plate, this is one of Katie's favorites. The girls told me they saw Katie ask Bree to close her eyes and count to ten. They said Bree wasn't sure what to do, so Katie showed her what to do. Bree then closed her eyes and started counting. While her eyes were closed Katie grabbed a few of her cucumbers off of Bree's plate and put them on her plate. She told Bree to open her eyes and then said " Good job Bree you can count to ten." Bree had no idea what she had done, but I guess she had a feeling she did something because a few minutes later Katie got up from the table to go to the bathroom. When she got up Bree, who had juice to drink for dinner, decided to steal a sip of Katie's sprite. Bree went over to Katie's seat, opened the lid on her sprite bottle took a drink and them put the lid back on and then went back to her seat as if she did nothing. At this point, all the youth girls busted out laughing at how sneaky both of my girls were being. They told me what they just saw and I started laughing. It was amazing to me that they both could be so conspiring towards each other at this age. This made me wonder, what else I don't see when I am busy getting dinner ready.