Birthday Shopping!

Heather and I took Izzy and Elizabeth to the mall for their birthdays. Izzy turned 3 today and Elizabeth turns four tomorrow. They had a ton of fun running through the mall hand-in-hand. It was so cute!
We brought them to Build-A-Bear and they both picked their favorite animal. Elizabeth LOVES horses... Izzy filled her kitty first by pressing on the foot pedal. When it was Elizabeth's turn Izzy was pointing out to her how it was done. Elizabeth had absolutely no interest in touching the pedal that caused loud noises....

...so Izzy helped her out while holding her hand so Elizabeth wouldn't be afraid. Too sweet!

Izzy picked out a heart for the inside of Elizabeth's horse and instead of Elizabeth refusing it and wanting to pick her own, she accepted.

After kissing the heart she placed it inside her horse and the nice lady sewed her up.

After their horse and kitty were sewed up they got to "bathe" them.

This is very serious business.

Of course the girls wanted to pick cute little outfits for their new friends. Who are we to say no when it's their birthday???

After the mall we went to Zupa's and had lunch. The girls love it there, especially the chocolate strawberries.

Happy Birthday Girls!!!

New Glasses

It's official. Haylee is blind. OK, not really. But her eye sight is definitely worse than mine. Poor thing has been suffering for quite a while. The girl is pretty dramatic about everything. So when she told me about a year ago that she really needs glasses I brushed it off as another one of her many complaints. And then this year her teacher sent home a note stating that Haylee was insisting she couldn't see the blackboard. Then the school nurse called me to tell me she failed the school vision test. So I FINALLY took her into the eye doctor. Turns out she really did need glasses! lol

Reminiscing

These were the days...

Nothing Like a Packing Peanut Bed

There's nothing like curling up with a good book in a box of packing peanuts...

Zach's Baptism Day

Zach was baptized a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Days Saints on Saturday, February 27th, 2010. We are so blessed to live in a country where we have the freedom to worship as we please and that we have the Gospel in our lives. We are so proud of Zach for making the decision to be baptized. We love you Zach!

Zach's Pirate Party

Our kids only get big friend birthday parties when they turn 5, 8, 12 and 16. Since Zach turned 8 this year he got a big party and we went all out. He chose to have a pirate party. We had a treasure hunt, pin the X on the treasure map, bobbing for apples with fish in the tub and "cannon pop" where the kids had balloons tied to their ankles. Instead of more cake we did blue jell-o (ocean) with gummy fish and cool whip (waves) on top. The kids loved it and all the junk food!

hApPy BiRtHdAy, zAcH ! ! !

Zach turned 8 this year. On his actual birthday we had a small family celebration with his choice of dinner, cake and ice cream. He also got to open his present from us...a Tony Hawk skateboard!

Playing outside after dinner and opening presents.

Happy Birthday, Zach!