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Jackson’s Birthday

6 yrs old! What? That sounds so old…  Jackson had a lot of things he wanted to do to celebrate his birthday – he couldn’t quite decide what he wanted to do most. Finally we decided we would go bowling as a family and have a little party for him with his cousins. I haven’t decided on our “policy” for birthdays yet… I know some people only do parties for certain birthdays and they go all out on those specific parties, others go all out every year for parties, some do family parties some years and then friend parties the other years – I’m kinda just playing it by year.

Anyway, so our family bowling was really fun/ funny – everyone was happy and it was fun just to be together. The party with cousins was also a blast! We played a few organized games, had pizza, cake and ice cream, and then we just let them play in the backyard.  We played the candy bar game, a funny balloon popping game, simon says, and button button. Jackson’s cake was a lot of fun to make. He wanted a football cake with an AZ Cardinals helmet and a BYU helmet. We came up with just what he wanted – it was fun to create and tasted great, but let’s be honest, if you’re getting detailed at all fondant just takes so long! It was fun to see all the boys reactions to the cake though – they were chanting “BYU” over and over.

Playing Simon Says

The Cake

This is the video Micah made the week of his b-day:

skip to about 4:15 in the video for b-day stuff

Jackson is a fun little guy. He loves any good competition, and I mean any competition. He loves a good game and at this point hasn’t learned to be a bad sport about losing yet. He is very determined when he sets his mind to something. He’s smart, kind, and just has a good nature about him. His teachers all love him and tell me what a polite and thoughtful boy he is. He is such a great little guy!

Phew! We made it through the birthday month again, now on with the rest of the year!

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How fast is your hot wheels car? Come find out!

Are any of you or your kids hot wheels fans out there? Think you have the fastest car? Well, we’d love to have you at the race to see your car in action! Micah is putting on a race for family and friends from Youtube. People have sent in cars from all over the US, Puerto Rico, and the UK. We have about 65 cars now and expect a few more to roll in in the next few days. If you don’t have a car on hand, don’t want to go out and buy one, or don’t have time to ship a car we’ve got you covered… We went and found some of the fastest looking cars and you can sponsor a car here.

The race will be held this Saturday, 6:30 PM and pizza will be served! Of course besides bragging rights, winners will leave with a prize! Let us know if you’re interested in entering your fastest racer(s) so we can add you to the bracket. Its going to be the race of the year so you won’t want to miss it!

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Princess Tea Party

Lacey is a firecracker! Her favorite thing to do is watch movies. Right now her favorite is Tangled.  She loves to have FUN and make people laugh.  It is actually very hard to get her to hold still long enough to take a picture.  She is also a night owl.  It is not uncommon to hear her talking or singing to herself in her room past 10pm.

This year she wanted to have a tea party and play at the park.  She got to invite her 2 favorite cousins, Hannah and Anna.  They made frilly hats, and got their nails done.  Sarah got them all disney princess press ons.  It was funny watching these little 4  year olds trying to eat with silly fake nails getting in their way.

I had seen this idea on Pinterest and suggested we do it and Lacey loves Minnie mouse so she liked the idea.

While the girls made hats and got their nails done the boys set up the tea party at the park.  It was sort of a Fancy Nancy affair.  They had paper doilies as place mats and sandwiches with frilly toothpicks in them.  Their favorite part of the meal was the red jell-o jigglers.  So fancy!

Jackson got to practice being a gentleman.  He will be sure to get a lot practice with 3 younger sisters.

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Our Big 2 Year Old

Rachelle, Chelley, Chelle. She is growing up way too fast.  She is a  talker and can tell you exactly what she wants.  She was really excited for her Birthday.  This year she got to share her celebration with her Papa-dad who turned 60 and cousin Eliza who turned 1.  Unfortunately, she was actually quite ill the evening of her Birthday but she was still in good spirits.

Her big present was this Lalaloopsy playhouse that came with a doll.

Sarah used her Giant cupcake pan to make a cute little cottage for her cake.  The tulips were leftover from Sarah’s birthday.

You can tell from her rosy cheeks she was running a little bit of a fever.

Even with a fever she was bouncing all around (Minnie mouse outfit was from Grandma Stubz).  Chelley loves to jump.

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Photo Valentines Cards

We love to add our own little flair to our Valentine’s Cards over here…. its fun to personalize them to each of our kids’ likes and personalities. If you want to see our Valentine’s cards from last year you can find them here and we’ve done others, I just can’t remember if/where I posted them. Jackson is definitely a fan of anything Star Wars (which is funny because he’s only seen bits and pieces of the actual movies) and Lacey loved the pictures we took at Adam Ashby’s reception where we held up the lips, glasses, and mustaches on a stick to make our faces look funny. Originally I wanted to get lip lollipops for hers, but I couldn’t find them at any local stores or online for a reasonable price and I didn’t want to invest that much time into making them myself. So these cards were what we came up with. I figure these don’t  take any more effort or cost than a traditional box of Valentines cards if you would have added any kind of candy to them… the glow bracelets and lips were each $1 for a package of 12 (at the dollar store),  and printing the pictures for Lacey and Jackson was $4.00.

Cute, personalized, and not too hard on the wallet sounds great for everyone!

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