The Birthday Party

In December I asked Molly if she wanted to have a birthday party and she surprised me with, "I want a flower party". So we have been planning this flower party and after a lot of sewing and paper cutting, the party was pulled off!

Delivering invitations.

We played a game where each child had 10 flowers that they needed to find around the house. They all had there own color and when they brought them back we made a garden on the wall. This is before the game.

I made chocolate flowers for the cupcakes, but I was afraid the boys wouldn't like pink cupcakes (I have a nephew who would not touch a pink cupcake if you paid him too!) so I made dirt cupcakes to make a full garden.

Now this, this is my favorite part. I spent a LOT of time sewing this little number but as soon as she put it on, it felt so worth every second. 90 Yards of ruffled nylon chiffon later I had a skirt.

Yeah, this skirt gets a few extra pictures!

Here are all of the guests at the end of the party. You can see the finished garden behind them.I made a Tutu for each girl and a tool belt for the boys.

As everyone was leaving, Molly kept tackling her friend Johnny.

After several attempts to get her off of him, Nathan finally took care of things!

We all had a great time. There will be more pictures soon. My sweet friend Amy took lots of good pictures for me so I could cook and keep the party going.

Stay tuned...or tune out if you are getting bored, but I haven't even showed you the food. Flower shaped PB&J's for the kids and sliders for the adults with flower shaped cheese. Ridiculous, I know!

Having fun!

For Valentines day we had a play group and then a party. We were going to decorate cookies that day, but Mommy had enough so we decided to do it the next day. Grana sent some candy to decorate with and we discovered Molly really likes red hots.

Today we received a package in the mail for Molly's upcoming birthday. While she was sleeping I played with her new toy, and then hid it before she woke up but the box was still there. She has been playing non-stop with this box and packing peanuts.

She likes to close the box on herself. I loved boxes as a kid. I think all kids love boxes.

Fun, fun , fun!

How do I get so behind?

I get so behind on blogging and then I have even less of a desire to blog, so I decided to just put the pictures on and go from there!

OUr "BIG, HUGE, DEATHLY SNOWSTORM" was really not that big of a deal We did get some good snow and ice, but we were prepared to be stuck in the house for a long time. Tunrs out it was more of a nuisance than fun. (We like storms at our house!)

Molly was excited to go out and play though!

With all of the cold weather, the trampoline has been getting a lot of use!

Oue friend Margaret came to visit us and we had such a great time with her. Molly LOVES her and was so sad when she left. I love her too, so I was so glad she was able to come for a visit. Hurry back Margaret!

It starts...

The weather people have been forecasting a big storm where we're at. It started snowing tonight, and is supposed to snow harder tomorrow and Wednesday. We may even get a little bit of an ice storm. We'll see what actually happens. Here's what it looked like a few minutes ago.

Our newest pictures

Molly was really sick last week, hence the reason she is in pajamas in these pictures, but I thought I would post what we had!

She had not really been eating and she was waking up a million times during the night (she had a bad ear infection). One night she asked for Peanut butter bread. So we gave it to her. She and Nathan had Peanut butter sandwiches at 1 o'clock in the morning.

Nathan and Molly made me a cake for my birthday. Molly calls the "Happy Birthday" song, "Happy the Birthday".

As a side note, she also calls tissues, "bless you's".

Love it!

Bye, Bye Beep Beep!

I have a lot of blogging to catch up on and now that we have the house mostly un-packed I really should catch up, but right now I have to blog about this...even though it is out of order.

Tonight we had a "Bye, Bye Binky" party for Molly. It's been a long time coming, but I have dreaded this day. She loves the binky ( she refers to it as a beep beep) and while people look at her and see this almost three year old with a pacifier, all I see is my baby. Somehow I feel like taking it away from her is taking my baby from me.

A while back we took the binky down to nap and bed time but the time has come to take it from her.

We talked this party up for a while and she has been so excited. She picked out a cake and we made it together and then we had ourselves a party.

I found a bag of Binky's while I was unpacking and it was full of every kind of pacifier known to man. I did everything I could to get this kid to take a pacifier when she was born.

So we put some of them on the cake and made up a song about what a big girl she is and how she doesn't need a binky anymore.

Her last little suck.

And then we threw them away. I wanted her to see they were going in the garbage and I wanted her to do it by her own choice. Which she was happy to do. I on the other hand bawled like a little baby. I did not expect these emotions to come out. I don't want her to have a binky, I don't, but it was just harder than I thought it would be.

Nathan, Molly and I danced and played and had a great time together.

About an hour before bed she cried and said, "why did we throw my beep beep's away?" I picked her up and told her she was a big girl and she didn't need them anymore. She was fine with that. Then bed time came and I was nervous to put her to bed.

She went to bed just fine. No crying. Nothing.

A half hour later she walked out of her room. Trying so hard not to cry and said,

"I am not a big girl"

That was it.

For day one.

Happy Birthday Sarah!

Molly and I are so blessed to have such a wonderful mother and wife in our lives. Sarah is extraordinary: she is beautiful, patient, kind, loving, and most amazingly puts up with Molly and I day in and day out. Molly and I are very lucky!

Happy birthday Sarah! We love you lots!