Sky's 7th birthday.

First of all, I can't believe I'm typing a 7 but, I'll get used to it, I'm sure.  Sky's birthday was a hit.  We invited some friends and their moms, to have a girls day out with us.  We met at Chili's for lunch and then headed over to the dollar movie to see Ramona and Beezus.

The girls were cute, at lunch they sat at one end and us moms at the other.  They acted so grown up, ordering their own food and chatting like little adults.  It was fun to just sit and watch them interact with each other.  After eating our yummy food and Sky getting her birthday dessert we headed over to the dollars to see the movie.  It was a great show, mixed with laughs and even some teary parts.  Here's the evidence of our great day.

Sky woke up and put together the gift bags for her friends...

Then off to Chili's we went.  Outside waiting for friends to arrive...



Getting the table ready...

Her great friends





  On to the presents

Fabulous Friday!

This summer, we've been having ourselves "Fabulous Fridays" where we do something (me and the kids) a little extra special.  I make sure they have my full attention and a lot of fun!  The last couple of Fridays have been spent at the Draper pool.  Today, it was at home.  I tried thinking of other places we could go, but I just didn't have it in me today.  I was struggling for energy.  So we stayed home, but that didn't mean it wasn't FABULOUS!!!  It started with a bike ride around the block.  The first time I've done that with all three kids riding.  The last time we went around our own block I pushed a stroller, so that should tell you... it's been awhile.  So that was new and FUN for them.  Then after, the bikes needed a "car wash" which meant squirting water so Jett was game!!!  The girls started out on board, but they quickly moved onto other things.  My boy loves the hose and any chance he can turn it on or squirt a water gun, he's on it.  So here he is going to town.  Isn't he cute?

I'm getting there...

I have finally finished making her shirt, I have made a headband to go with it and now I know how I'm going to do her hair.   My only last decision is where to take the darn pictures.  Am I sounding a little crazy?  Okay, I know I am, but when I'm the photographer, I can take my time and plan it out perfectly, right?  I remember stressing just about as much when I would take my kids into Kiddie Kandids (I cringe as I say their name).  So, for now cause this one is for a project I'm doing and because I think this cute little face of hers, is her to a tee... I'll share one.  P.S.  Thanks again Miss A !!


I also love this one of her...

Trying something new...

Brooke's third birthday was a few weeks ago and I haven't gotten around to taking her birthday pictures just yet.  I've been trying to come up with something fun, cute, different and age appropriate for her.  I haven't had any amazing ideas come my way.  To be completely honest, I am so sad about her hair, I could cry.  She was not blessed in that department, that's for sure.  To those of you who think, that is terrible to say, trust me you'd understand if you saw her hair up close and you had friends like I do with three year olds that have INCREDIBLE hair (I won't mention names, you know who you are and I'm envious).  In any case, I cringe when it comes time to do her hair.  There just isn't ANYTHING I can do.  So my mission has been to come up with a way to make her hair look as cute as she is.  Awhile back, a client of mine had four girls and their hair was in perfect ringlets.  WOW, I thought, she must have spent HOURS curling their hair for pictures.  She mentioned to me that it was incredibly simple and there was a keyosk in the Fashion Place mall that sold these curling irons.  So, remembering that, I decided to check it out.  I came home with one, if that tells you anything.  I thought she looked so cute with curls.  Something I thought I'd NEVER seen in her hair last for more than two seconds.  Today, I gave it a try... how would it look?

  I asked her so kindly, "Can I please take a picture of your curls?"  I'm sure you could guess her response from this picture!  And trust me this is all I got.  What do you think?

I Heart Faces photo contest ~Yellow~

I'll get to the rest of the YELLOW birthday pictures later, but for now... I had to enter this into this weeks contest (www.iheartfaces.com).  I mean, really?  Can I pass up an opportunity like this when Brooke's favorite, favorite color in the whole world is yellow?  So here's one from her yellow birthday day...

What was I thinking?

Friday morning, I was sitting on my couch, feeling a migraine coming on.  I'm sure it was a result of the several sleepless nights this week.  The phone rang, it was Suzanne.  She wanted to tell me that if we were going to take pictures of our kids at this new location, we had to do it tonight.  They were tearing the place down!  NO!!!  Ughh...!!!  You wouldn't believe it, but I waited out the symptoms of the migraine and went to work, ironing the girls dresses and doing their hair.  In the meantime Jett laid limp, sound asleep on the couch worked from a night of throwing up.  I couldn't believe I was doing this.  I didn't have an ounce of energy and really I was going to drag Jett off the couch, throw him in the car while I took pictures of the girls?  YEP!  Well, it turns out that Jett woke up after a good snooze wondering what was going on.  I explained that I wanted to take pictures of the girls so he was going to have to ride along in the car and just watch a movie.  "WHAT?  I want you to take pictures of me too!"  Okay, so after a second of looking at his sweet, extra pink cheeks and darling nap face, I said sure.  I grabbed the closest outfit to us out of the pile on the couch, threw some goo in his hair and off we went.  The weather was dark and dreary.  There wasn't a whole lot of light.  It looked as if it were going to rain on us any second.  What was I thinking, seriously!  Was I crazy?  Probably, but like Suzanne said, this was our only chance!  I got a few pictures, I even pushed for a few more at the end cause the kids were in such great moods.  It ended with another migraine.  I had to sit and wait in the car for several minutes until my sight came back so I could drive home.  You'd never guess Jett had been sick all night and you'd never guess that Brooke was about to have a night of throwing up herself.  I think come Saturday morning, I was on the brink of death.  After being up all night Thursday, two migraines Friday afternoon and then being up all night Friday night with Brooke, someone could have shot me and I doubt I would have felt it.  But who cares right?  Cause I got darling pictures of my kids sweet faces!
 

TEE-riffic!

Last night was Jett's first T-ball game.  He was adorable and smiled the whole way through.  I think it's safe to say he was on cloud nine.  For one, dad surprised us and got off work to come to the game and two he loves his new mitt.  He's been so anxious to actually use it in a game.  Seriously, nothing but smiles.  We cracked up at some of the other kids (I'm guessing first child children) who were so upset when they didn't get to the ball first or they didn't catch it like their dad told them to.  Jett just played, smiling the entire time!!!!

Little Pep talk before warm-ups begin...
 


Warming up (look at that smile).
 

Waiting to bat...


 It's your turn buddy!


Swing, batter-batter, swing...
 

Throw the kid out at first!
 

You're up again... (keep that tongue in your mouth!)
 

That's right, JUMP onto first base!
 

Now run to second (and smile while you do it).
 

Such concentration (but isn't he sweet?)
 

See, look at that adorable face!
 

Okay, back out in the field.  You've got him, throw him out!!!


But don't let that sweetness fool you, because when it comes to kisses during the game, he's sure to just wipe them off!
 

338 = $33.80

Call me crazy, but I've been waiting for this day for a long time.  We have been saving Box Tops around here for years (thank you Betty Crocker brownie mixes and Gogurt), knowing the day would come when we could turn them into our daughters school.  Well, that day has arrived, it's a competition. The contest is that one person from each grade will win a prize and then the class with the most will win a party.  I think we have a pretty good chance.  We better after spending two hours cutting the darn things out on the dotted line so we can glue them to a piece of paper.  In any case, win or lose we turned in 338 and the school will get $33.80 which is a great thing.

Pressing forward...

I know, I know... it's sad.  I haven't been great at blogging lately.  I have so many posts to post, but not likely that I'll backtrack, so pressing forward I will! 

So Easter is in two days right?  Well, Jett seems to have really grasped the concept of Resurrection.  Yesterday after watching a karate class (the one he'll start taking next week) he said to me, "If I die at karate, I'll just be resurrected and come back to life so, it's okay if I take karate mom."

Now onto my preparations for Easter.  One, is that a friend of mine brought over her girls Easter dresses and asked if I'd make some bows to match.  I'm always up for making things.  Even though I have a million other things to do... I figure I can do it.  So here they are.  I hope she likes them.

So task one complete.  Now onto task two and three.  Two is sew my girls' dresses and three is make something for them to wear in their hair.

Here is the before:

And be sure to check back to see the after (my girls in their dresses).

My Super Star!

Last week Sky was "Super Star of the Week" at school.  I found out only a couple days before, so like a crazy lady, I went to work looking for pictures to put on her poster that best described my Super Star!  I had Sky write down her favorite things while I searched my computer.  I found them, uploaded to the Costco photo center and then went and picked them up an hour later.  The next day we picked up some poster board and Sky and I went to work, cutting and pasting.  It was a fun little project and there is no doubt that she is a Super Star.

I had a hard time keeping her from playing with it.  She was so proud of her poster.  She did several practice runs of "presenting her poster" with us as her audience.  It was fun!

Happy New Year!

It's going to be a great year!  I just know it.  As some of you know, I love acronyms and here's something I've never shared, but I also love simple numbers (I know, call me weird).  Meaning: I like the numbers 1, 5, and 10 and multiples of 10.  I don't know why.  Maybe they are easier numbers for me to remember?  Maybe it's the only thing simple in my life?  Maybe it's because I was born on the 30th of the month.  Okay, so really, I don't know.  It's just how I am I guess.  Funny thing, I didn't get to pick my first daughter's birthday, but lucky for me she was born on the 15th.  The next child was born on the 1st and the third child on the 20th.  Doing good so far.  So long story short, it's 2010 and I KNOW just the fact that the number makes me happy, that this one is going to be fabulous!

It started pretty great bringing in the new year with friends and family.  Suzanne, you are awesome and thank you for having us over.  My family had a blast!  It's funny how now it's not just you and I that have become as close as family, but now our families are blending and becoming great friends.  It's perfect!