HAPPY BIRTHDAY RESSA!!

On the 18th Ressa turned 5! Hard to believe that our little bean will be heading off to kindergarten next September. She think being 5 is the coolest thing ever.



On the day of her birthday we did lunch at Chic-fil-A with Nate, picked up the earings and sunglasses she was wanting, made birthday brownies, and had a quick celebration with our friend "uncle Palmer" who was in town. Then it was off to Brad's house for a BBQ.



I know what you are thinking... could we get a bigger candle? I had bought candles at the store, and then left without them so we improvised.



The 22th is Ressa's best friend's birthday. We called her to wish her a happy birthday and to finalize plans for the joint birthday party we were doing at Cheryl's house.

On the 24th we threw a party for the girls. They had picked "icecream" as their theme so we ran with it. I picked up pizzas and made "icecream cone cup cakes". Cheryl picked up a pinata, balloons, and put together an icecream sundea/banana split station for the kids.























I didn't frost the cupcakes. We let the kids decorate their own with frosting and spinkles of all kinds. They had a blast!!





























Cheryl helped the kids make their icecream treats. As expected a few of them got a bit carried away on toppings.





















Luke was the lucky one to break the pinata. He was definatley the most agressive hitter there. Something that was to be expected in a sea of girls!












Eventually party time turned into a snail hunting expedition. Everybody got in on the action!

CYANNE TURNS 10!!

Cyanne celebrated her 10th birthday in style. She, Foster, Nate, Brad and Abel all went skiing at Big Bear. They had a great time! Cyanne loves skiing and Foster took a lesson. He seemed to enjoy his lesson, but is not terribly excited to go again.












After skiing we did a spaghetti and meatball dinner. Cyanne's request.




We followed that up with lemmon cake accented with chocolate chips. She seems to have had a great birthday.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOYS!!

Yesterday was the boys birthday. Foster turned 8 and Ammon turned 2. We didn't plan any big thing, but did get each of them a little something and had a few friends over... mostly those we could pull together in only 2 hours. The boys didn't seem to mind. Foster gets a sleepover next weekend... a prospect he is VERY excited about.




















My poor cakes. Foster wanted a "cool" cake. The kids had gotten him some mini Transformers so we used them on the cake. I have decided though that my frosting making skills are limited at best. Kristin, I think I need help!! I didn't get it to set up, and ended up with WAY too much frosting! I was trying to write happy birthday in orange on Foster's and when I had to start over twice he said, "Its okay mom. I don't need it and would rather another mountain on top". Thanks babe!










Ammon got his own mini cake to dive into. He did really well... ate half of it. What followed was an extreme sugar crash.



















Foster got Indy for his birthday, thanks Jenn, and then the kids got him transformers and we threw in a couple new ties. All in all I think he loved it!















Ammon has been trying to get into Foster's legos for the last 8 months or so. This usually results in screaming when he realizes he can't get the lid off the bin they are in. When the older kids play with him he does pretty well. Sometimes I find one in his hand or mouth that didn't get put in the bin when the older kids were done. It has been an issue. Anyway, we got him some nice big legos for his birthday. At first he didn't understand the wrapping paper. Once he figured out it was okay to rip it he had a blast. He slept holding onto one brick, and hasn't put them away yet. We scored on his gift!