Abriella's 4th Birthday

Finally. We've had a lot going on around here and I am finally getting around to posting Abriella's birthday pictures. I am really disappointed in my "before the party" pictures. I always have these grand ideas in my head of taking all these detail shots before the party gets started. Well, I am usually down to the minute setting things out so the few snaps I took are all I'm going to get. Got to be better about that since I didn't even get half the decorations in the shots! Her Royal Highness wanted a Pink Princess Party... and we obliged!

There was (I wish you could see it better) a Rapunzel's tower "pinata".

Decorate your own magic wands.

Pink popcorn, pink lemonade and pink pink pink cupcakes.

Fancy princess crowns.

And pretty princesses.

This girl was not shy with her present opening. She couldn't even wait 5 minutes after everyone arrived to start tearing into them. There was wrapping paper flying everywhere and tissue paper up in the air over her shoulder... nothing could keep her from her presents.

Oliver is not one to mess with either. We've been keeping with the tradition that they get a present on the others birthday's since it is their half birthday.

Oliver loved decorating his magic wand but only enjoyed licking the sprinkles and icing off. I was told that Eric was doing frosting shots straight from the can with all of the kiddos. Great... so mature!

I love how excited the kids get about everything at this age. She asked for her birthday song and candles for each meal of her party day and her birthday. So stinkin' cute!

The beautiful princesses... best friends!

Happy Birthday, My Princess!!

Happy 4th Birthday

A very Happy Birthday to my sweet little girl! I can't believe she is already 4. I don't know where the time has gone. Here is her 4th birthday video. What a year it has been.


We love you so much! Happy Birthday.

Getting Impatient

Camera is still gone. Just checked the status and apparently they're not fixing anything else. Argh! Frustrated. We'll see what happens, but all I have to say is that it has to be back by the Little Miss' birthday party next weekend. I'm just getting around to some of the pictures that I did happen to snap while I had it for the few days in between. On a whim one afternoon we decided that it would be a good fun idea to take the kids bowling. We knew Oliver was still too little but thought Abriella might have some fun. Let's just say the kids had a great time. It's nice though, when they can have fun despite our grownup frustrations. For those of you who know Abriella probably realize that once she gets excited about something there is simply no calming her down. She turns into this crazy hyper bouncing ball of energy. To say that that's what she was when we walked into the bowling alley would be putting it mildly. After the chaos of walking in, getting shoes and finding a lane we got to   make sure no one was knocked unconscious with a bowling ball   bowl.

You might think this is a picture of her ball heading to knock down some pins when in actuality it's just sitting there, stuck in the middle of the lane. I don't know how this didn't happen more than once.

That picture about sums it up! The local bowling alley can rest assured we won't be back anytime soon.

It's Back

but not for long!! So after anxiously, impatiently waiting for my camera to return to me it finally did... and still doesn't work. I pulled it out of it's box and it looked so beautiful. Nice and clean and seriously like new shiny! But then I tried it out... and it's still front focusing! Uggh, so back it goes. I had been putting off getting Oliver's hair cut for quite a while. One, because he had the cutest little fly aways and curls and I knew they would be long gone forever once they were chopped off... and two, because I didn't have my camera and I wanted to capture the moment. Since it was back I decided we should take him in. Abriella did so well her first time so it really didn't cross my mind that Oliver would be any different. Boy was I wrong! We decided to take him to and old old old barber shop in our cute little downtown area and that may have been our first mistake.

We walked in and the place was so cute... old soda machine, antique barber chairs... old men getting their head and beard shaved, lol. But Oliver lost his little mind. He refused to sit in the chair and as soon as Eric sat down with him he proceeded to scream the.whole.time... until he finally gave up and then just kept up with the big tearful sighs and hiccups. It was probably mean to snap these pictures but he'll probably look back on them and smile (I hope). I felt so bad for him and really would have stopped the whole thing if he wouldn't have looked like he had given himself a haircut. The women there was so nice and really did a wonderful job

Here is the sad little boy with his big boy haircut. Finally getting to eat his sucker, since he just held on to the first two which became covered with hair.

To help him get over the trauma we also treated him to a nice lunch at Applebee's. I can't get over how grown up my baby looks now. In all the drama I didn't get a chance to really think about it, but even looking at this picture make me tear up a bit. He's too big, but oh, I love him so.