Charlotte's 5th Birthday Party

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Charlotte had her first ever birthday party this past saturday. She was SO excited and happy to have one and has been looking forward to it for weeks! She invited a few friends, mainly from school, to come. She wanted a Tinkerbell party and to dress up (thankfully we already had a tink costume from last Halloween!). Since she had boys come too, we had to think fast! They could come as Lost Boys/Pirates. Phew! So we had fairies and pirates. What a combination :)

It was a lot of work and a BIG THANKS to Jen, Mel and the Stoddards. We wouldn't have been able to throw this party without you!!! Anywho, wewere so happy to throw this party for Charlotte. It was priceless to see her face.

At the party, we colored pictures and made cereal necklaces, passed the parcel, hit a pinata, ate lunch, opened presents and had birthday cake. You can see in the video clip, she is also singing when she is being sung Happy Birthday. We had to sing it twice too!!! I'm so proud of this girl. I can't believe she's 5 years old now. To see where she was and where she is today is a miracle. I love my Missy moo!!

Tinkerbell Cake

Warning: blurry pics below. Sorry for my useless photo taking skills and CAMERA. ARGH. Oh well, you get the gist of the pictures, right?



My favorite thing on the cake were the mini mushrooms. so cute!!

So I haven't blogged for ages. I've got a couple of good excuses. I have a lot to catch up on as well. I think once Charlotte's birthday is over with, I'll definitely start trying to catch up on this blog. But I wanted to share the cake I made for charlotte's birthday party. I'm making another one, but just one tiered, simple cake. You have to have a cake ON your birthday!! She was so cute at her party. It was her first one. I hope she felt good. She deserved it.

She wanted a Tinkerbell Birthday cake for months. I searched on the internet and had ideas in mind on what to do. Oddly, it isn't really what I imagined it (due to lack of flower cutters and my crazy head) but I think it has turned out really awesome. So proud of it.

Kate's 4 months old now.

The kids love this thing. Especially when Kate gets in it.

Can't believe she's big enough for the exersaucer!!

Having her first taste of rice cereal!

I can't believe how fast time is going again! Four months old now. She's still a bit of a stinker. LOVES to be held. But she sleeps really great at night. She sucks on her hands and still only rolls from tummy to back. She had her first taste of rice cereal yesterday and really liked it. She now weight 14lbs 4oz so on the 58% and is 28 cm tall! Which means she's on the 94% for height! Isn't that awesome? Jack was tall like that too when he was a baby! But no matter how fussy this one is, I just love her to pieces. She's got the greatest smile and thinks you're the best thing in the world especially when you make her laugh. The kids still go crazy for her and I just love she's part of our family.

Charlotte's first day of school and first day on the bus!

Charlotte officially started her school again last Monday, August 30th! But she was sick that day. So didn't end up going. So August 31st was the day :) She was SOOO excited to go back and to see all her friends. They had half days last week which she wasn't too upset about. We bought her a new outfit and of course she picked out her Tinkerbell backpack. It is so cute and she loves it so much!

I love the little skirt on this backpack!! She's so loving it too :)

She's such a crack up :)

Today was the first day of all day school (8:30-3) and the day she gets to take her lunch! And the first day the school bus comes! Usually the school buses are like this:

But since Charlotte's school is "private" and just recently joined forces with the Utah School for the Deaf and Blind they use private transportation services. I told Charlotte her bus was a white school van and she seemed a bit disappointed because she was expecting the cute, typical yellow school bus but then again she was just excited to ride the "bus" to school with her friends!

Each bus has only 3 kids in the two buses so she only got half of her friends but you should have seen her smile! She LOVED it. And she got a brand new car seat because she's not big enough to sit on the seat without one. It was hard to have her go. I'm not kidding you. Typical mom thing plus you hear about scary stories on the news. I was so worried. I know those things won't happen but it still is scary to put your child's life in someone else's hands. But taking the bus will ease the miles on the car, gas and time. Quite a wonderful blessing for us.

Here's my retarded camera. It just took this picture this way and I'm so disappointed. :(

Waiting for the bus!

I'm so proud of this girl. I love you, Charlotte.

Toy Story Cake

This past week, I've been crazy busy. Along with the usual crazy days with 3 kids, I had family visiting and I made a birthday cake for a little boy for his birthday on Saturday (well, celebrated it saturday!). But I remember I said I don't make cakes except for family, anymore. That's still true. I made an exception when Nicki, who's a hairstylist and styles my hair, offered to trade work for work. I'm not stupid. I said yeah!!! Brody loves Toy Story-- she told me what she wanted and here's the result. Although I have never done Fondant lettering before and I'm not pleased about it -- I did my best!!! I hope you like it. The cakes were yellow/chocolate marble cake with buttercream icing and the top moon/planet thing was rice krispie treats to get the desired shape! I made everything except for the characters, of course. So cool and fun!!! and time consuming :) But I LOVE my hair so I think I got the better end of the deal ;). Thanks, Nicki!

Hooray for Kate!

Big news about Kate TODAY. She rolled over for the first time this evening! I set her on her tummy on Charlotte's bed and she rolled over from tummy to back so quickly! I decided to test her again on the floor just in case the bed was helping her and she did it again! I then got the 3rd roll over on camera but can't upload videos anymore on blogger so I did it to Facebook. Unfortunately, it's not working there either but oh well. I tried. She loves to grab her toes and roll to the side so I'm sure it won't take long for her to figure out how to roll from back to tummy. She's a laugher and a smiler and loves loves LOVES to be held. She's just like her friend Katelynn who loves to hold material. She loves her blankets so I better get crackin' and make a taggy blanket for her. She's a fantastic sleeper (knock on wood!) and we can generally lay her down, all snug in a burrito still and she'll fall asleep on her own. NICE! I hope it lasts. She's so cute. And we love her to pieces.

Trip to the Hogle Zoo!

Li'l Zuri! SO cute!! It just turned 1! Well, it was cute until it went up to it's mother (who just went to the bathroom in both capacities) and decided to try some of it...

This tiger was AMAZING!!! Came and sat right in front of us.

This gorilla was hilarious! He ended up laying on the ground and kept looking at me like, what? what's your problem weirdo. ha ha ha.

Wade had a committee meeting with his Mission President at the end of July so we decided to make a trip down there together and go to the Hogle Zoo since the house they were meeting at was like 45 seconds away from the zoo! It was so much fun and I know both of the kids absolutely loved it. It was stinkin' hot that day and I was sooooo happy to stand in front of those ginormous misting fans. They're pretty smart people to do that, you know. We definitely need to do this more often.

P.s. Kate was there too. Just in case you were thinking where the heck she was!

Jackism

So yesterday Wade gave Jack a bath. While he was in the tub, he was on his stomach. Does a big fart. Jumps up and says BURP! ha ha ha. In fact, he farted again today and called it a Burp. HA HA. Just had to share. Sorry if you're grossed out now ;)

Jack's 2nd birthday!

We just celebrated Jack's 2nd birthday on the 23rd. We had a fun, simple day. I can't believe he's 2 already. He is such a joy and we love him so much. He's got quite the personality and makes you laugh so much. I'm so thankful he came to us. We are so blessed to have him.

The day started out with him being shown his presents. HE LOVED THEM ALL!!! He got a bike, helicopter, bubbles, measuring tape and a few presents from Grandma and Grandpa i.e. hat, shirt, money (used some of it for a Handy Manny toy), stickers, etc. He had a blast. We ate Chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast, McDonald's for Lunch and Jack's Brick Oven pizza and of course cake and ice cream. And we did our tradition of watching a movie (once the others are in bed) of their choice. He had a great day. We just love Jack so much and will do anything for him.

Jack has this thing about screwdrivers (the tool ha ha). And of course every other tool that's out there. So we decided it would be cool to do a screwdriver cake. And he knew what it was instantly! I thought it first started to look like a sword when making it. Now it looks more like a screwdriver...sort of. he he


This picture CRACKS ME UP. I don't know what he was thinking but it made us laugh.

Happy birthday, my Jack-a-roo. You make us so happy!!

I hate my toes but...

Girls camp was all last week and each day we tried to go up for a few hours. Hard to go up the whole time when you nurse a baby and have little ones but it was SO fun going. When we went up on Thursday, the girls were giving pedicures. So Charlotte had hers done and then she wanted to do my toes. So this is all Charlotte. She's an artist! he he. It was so fun to let her do it. It's a pretty color...dark green!!! :)