Emmy's Gymnatics Performance

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Happy Halloween!

Watch us do the Monster Mash


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The Ghost

So the other day when Amanda (our babysitter) picked up Emelia from school. She asked her what they did at school and Emelia told her that she saw a ghost. Amanda thought that was really funny and sent me a text telling me of her encounter. So that night Emelia and I were laying in her bed talking. I decided to ask her about the ghost. I asked her if it was a nice ghost or a mean ghost and she said, "It was nice ghost" and I said well what did he say and she responded with: "He said Hi EYa" (the way she says her name) "and I say Hi Ghost" It was just so cute and funny because she even waved as she told me the story.

Since we've been home

Emelia started school and is LOVING it, Jude has been walking a bit more (not completely), and Dalton is here visiting from Georgia. We have gone to the circus, Seaworld and Universal Studios all within the past week. Here are a few pictures.

She is saying "I am going to school"
I dressed her in her not so best. They said that they get dirty.
That is why she looks like a ragamuffin.

She LOVES school so much and asks me everyday if she is going. I signed her up for two half days a week for the summer camp program but once school starts in September she will be going 3 days a week half days.

Jude's new favorite love.... Juice

Our Niece Dalton at universal studios

Emelia met Zoey

Jude got croupe but had a quick recoveery and is doing great! Even with a big barking cough he still was in a good mood.

Our Amazing Disney Vacation

Here is a link to the video I made. It is super long 13 min. but if you want to take a peek here it is. We had such a wonderful time and such a memorable trip. We are so extremely greatful to my parents for taking us all on this trip to celebrate there 40th wedding anniversary. We also celebrated my dad's birthday and my nephew Luke's birthday. What a magical trip.

http://www.onetruemedia.com/my_shared?z=3b109154e4a4c25a8f123d&utm_source=otm&utm_medium=text_url

Emelia's Second swim lesson with my friend Jen.

HAPPY FATHERS DAY!

We wish all the daddy's and the papa's a wonderful and happy father's day!

We Love you!

Words of a three year old and a one year old

Emelia's new sayings,

"I have to do..... (example: I have to eat candy)
"I have to go... (example: I have to go outside)
I don't have to... (example: I don't have to go night night)

"No Jude watch my show" .... What does she want me to do blind fold him.

Her newest one Crossing her arms and pouting and says. "Your so mean!" where in the world did she learn that one.

We have had some pretty rough days lately but there are some cute nice things she says

She calls me "Amy" and Jarrod "Uncle Jarrod"
She calls Jude "My baby", "Handsome Boy", "Baby Jude"
The other day I was telling her that we were going to Daniella's party and she said "We sing happy birthday?" I said Yes we will sing happy birthday her response was "I like that song" it was very cute.

When ever we go somewhere she asks me if her friends are there, even if we go to the market.

when we go to the gas station she asks me if the car is hungry.

She is very excited about going on the disney cruise and can't wait to eat with cinderella and minnie mouse.


Jude's word to date,

Mama
dad
dah (for dog)
bah (for bye)
and he is still saying Doctor but for no reason at all. :)

BIRTHDAY Shout out!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DANIELLA!!!

My niece Daniella is 10 years old today. We are going to my parents tonight to celebrate. Emelia is so excited. She LOVES Daniella and has so much fun playing with her. She was invited to her dance party with all her friends on Friday and was the life of the party. All of her friends danced around her and chanted Go Emelia. She was in rock star heaven.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY D

May Madness!!! Wonder Pets Party Highlight's

What a month!!!! We have been busy busy busy! I felt like we were always doing something. Our month was filled with gymnastics classes & performance, Birthday parties, mini vacations, work, school, family & friend visits, luncheons.

I am so ready for our upcoming Disney Cruise!! I think after this weekend things will begin to settle and I will be able to relax.

It was a busy month but definitely a FUN month.

I was able to post about Jude's party but we also celebrated Emelia's 3rd birthday.

EMELIA'S 3rd Birthday!
The Wonder Pets Party

Invitations:
I created these cute invitations www.lilbeansprout.com

Decorations:

Well we had the party at the park, so there wasn't much decorating to do. I purchased all the adorable Wonder pet's birthday supplies. We put a pop up tent for shade and I spread out a huge blanket so people could eat on the grass in the shade.

Games & Activities:

Find a animal:
I thought that it would be cute if all the kids could save an animal so I bought a small blow up pool and filled it with sand. Then I buried a bunch of animals in the sand. All the kids were able to use a shovel to save an animal. All the kids took home the animal that they saved.

Dress like a wonder pet:
I also had capes made for all the kids. I had someone sew them since I don't sew and then I made and glued all the wonder pets emblems on to the back made out of felt. It took a long time to do, but so worth it! All the kids loved the capes.
Face painting:
I decided to break out the face paints and created a board of all the animals I could paint on the kids faces.
The Cake:
I must say I think I did a lot better this time around creating the fly boat wonder pets cake. I used the sail and characters from Emelia's toy fly boat. I took chocolate covered doughnuts and dipped them in melted colored blue frosting. I also used marshmallow's for the jets in the back and colored M&Ms for the lights. Then I took the sail and the wonderpets characters from Emelia's toy fly boat it was the perfect touch to finish her cake. I was really proud of my self in the end. :) I also made cupcakes and put a wonder pets ring on top for the kids.

The Food:
The only themed food I served was celery sticks with various spreads. We did a ranch dip, Peanut butter, and cream cheese. You can't have a wonder pets party and not server celery. :)

We also rented a snow cone machine. That was so much fun and all the kids LOVED it!

Birthday Girl Apparel:
Another Darling shirt made by a fellow etsian! Here shop name is jakeandlucy. Here is the link to her shop http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6261153 Jea was able to create the shirt exactly what I had envisioned!

I had her do an applique of Ming Ming (Emelia's Favorite character) on the front and then on the back it said "This is serious"

Goody Bags:
All the kids took home the animal they saved in the sand and there wonderpets cape.

Photography:
Once again my WONDERFUL and talented friend Jenny took pictures of the party. You can view the whole party on her website at www.jennerrose.com then go to the client area type in the password wonderpet also for Jude's party the password is onefish

Thank You cards:

FRONT

BACK

Thank you to all the friends and family that made this birthday special!!



I have a ton of pictures to upload and put up here from this month and from our trip to Hilton head. I will hopefully get some time later this week.

Emelia's 1st Gymnastics Recital

What a cute & fun experience! I was so nervous that she wouldn't do it if she all the people but it almost looked like she liked all the attention. She did such a great job!

The little boy next to her was hilarious and it was almost like it was straight out of a movie. He began running around the stage and everyone was laughing. The video is really blurry and they look like glowing bodies but Emmy is the one in the middle. Sorry I was trying to tape and watch at the same time so It is really jumpy too.

I tried to re-focus and tape more but it didn't work to well. But at the end when everyone starts clapping Emelia stops and looks at everyone like what "what are you all clapping at?" ha ha ha

Performers Entrance

After the show with Nana & PapaEmelia & Daniella

With Mommy & Daddy

Happy Birthday to the Dude!!

My little Jude the Dude turned ONE!!!

We had such an amazing day yesterday! It was supposed to rain but God heard my prayers and made such a beautiful day. It was a Seusstastic day! I had everything from fun Seuss like tree's to a Dr. Seuss combo Jumper, to fishing for goldfish. Here are a few ideas that made it a Seussical birthday.
Invitations: Well these are pretty self explanatory. I made some amazing invites with a FUN poem. www.lilbeansprout.com Decorations: I bought card board cut out of various Seuss characters from funtocollect.com One of them included a 5' cat in the hat. I also printed various verses that meant a lot to me from some of Dr. Seuss Books. I made the cutest tags that were placed on the cupcakes. I made Seuss like trees with a paint stir stick, a round styrofoam ball and a feather boa. Here are a few pictures of the decorations.

Door

The Tags

The gift Table

Food table & Cake TableREDUCE REUSE RECYCLE
I put this sign up by the recycle trash bag

Games & Activities:

Let's go fishing!
The first game my sister Natalie thought of. Fish for your own goldfish. This was a HUGE hit and all the kids had so much fun catching one, fish, two fish red fish, Blue fish.

The sign had the verse. "Look what we found in the park in the Dark. We will take him home we will name him Clark. He will live at our house he will grow and grow. Will our mother like this? We don't know."

We also had a bouncer that kept the kids busy the WHOLE time. I had a craft all set up but the kids were having so much fun on the bouncer I didn't do it. It was:

Decorate Yertle the turtle.

I printed a bunch of Yertle the turtle heads cut them out and taped them to the side of a paper bowl. Then bought foam shapes and crayons to decorate the shell of Yertle.

Then the Bounce House.... I will never get just a plain bouncer again. The kids LOVED the slide feature on the combo unit.
The Cake: This is where I got WAY to ambitious!! I tried to make Jude's smash cake. I tried to make a cat in the hat, hat. It fell over so I ended up just decorating one single cupcake.

4 HUGE costco cupcakes were sacrificed in the process.

The End result :)Jude wasn't impressed. (ha ha) :)

I bought one box of the HUGE cupcakes from Costco and then made confetti cupcakes for the kiddies.

The Food: I had a grand ideas for this as well but in the end I really didn't want to do themed food. I was going to make green deviled eggs and ham wrapped in cantaloupe. I was going to have rainbow colored goldfish for the kiddies to snack on, Burgers and fries. We did burgers and chips.

The food was AMAZING thanks to my AWESOME dad! Thank you so much!!! we had:
Curly Hot dogs (cut them into fours length wise and boil them till they curl)
Hamburgers
Potato Salad
Cabbage and raman salad (super yummy thanks Jenny for the recipe)
Cut fruit
String cheese,
Chips
6 layer dip
Artichoke Parmesan dip

Birthday Boy's Apparel: Yeah I know only I would think of this.

I had his shirt and bibs made on etsy. I requested a custom listing and got a few bids then choose the one that I liked best. I had a shirt made and two bibs. One for Lunch time and one for Cake time.

Then I bought a cat in the hat shirt for after his cake since I knew he would be a mess.

Here are pictures of his shirts and bibs:Birthday Shirt & Cake Bib Made by Cute as a Button Designs
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5692314

Lunch Time Bib made by Karens Monsters
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5288809

You can get this shirt anywhere that sells Dr. Seuss Shirts. I got Jude's on Ebay.

Goody Bags: Well all the kids took home there fish that they caught, with a baggy of fish food and water conditioner and one of Dr. Seuss's classic books with a Dr Seuss Book mark. They had a bunch of books to choose from and bookmarks. I bought them on ebay. All the books were brand new and I paid roughly $2.50 for each. Not too bad.

Then the last two Items that made this SUCH an Amazing Birthday was

FRIENDS and One Happy Birthday Boy who took a 20 minute snooze in his high chair while everyone played.

Oh and to top it all off Jude took his first steps last night after he opened up his gifts.

Actual Birthday photo's to come. My good friend Jenny who is a photographer was so nice and took pictures of this HUGE milestone. Thank you Jenny I can't wait to see pictures.
http://www.jennerrose.com/ if you go to the client area and type in onefish as the password you can see pictures from the day.

WONDER PET'S BIRTHDAY to follow. :)