Sleepover and Snow!!

Sleepover

Last Friday night Kade had a sleepover for his 6th birthday. So instead of a big family party he invited two friends over and the night went very well. I was told by the birthday boy that he wanted a Cars cake with chocolate icing. Let me just warn you that Publix has restrictions on decorating unless it has white icing. I went around and around with the girl on the phone to get this cake. So finally I said fine don't put the Cars stuff on there, give it to me and I will do it myself. That is exactly what happened....so in the end what is the difference it is what he asked for. Here the finished product and I do not think it looks bad.

I think that Kade was happy with how the cake turned out. All he cared about was Cars and chocolate.

I had to put this photo in of Alex. This was taken right after the candles were lit. She loved it.

Here are the guys being hams for the camera. Steve said that I had given them to much caffeine.

They were well behaved boys. For most of the night they played WII. Poor Luke was just a little small, but he still managed to squeeze in.

My parents, my brother, and Steve and I went into together and got Kade a Nintendo Ds and some games for his birthday. He loves it, but I think Luke would like one to. As you can see he has managed to sneak off with the game and get comfy on the couch. Steve found him and took a couple of shots.

Happy 6th Birthday Kade

We love you!!

Snow

I was very excited about the snow. Luke and Alex have never experienced snow before so this was quite a special treat for them.

I took this shot of Kade right after Steve hit him with a snow ball. Look closely at his ear on the left and you can still see some of the snowball.

I thought this was a great photo. He looks like he is skiing.

Steve throwing snow balls at anyone who was in his range.

Luke does not like to be cold so he was not sure of the snow at first, but then he warmed up and really enjoyed it. All during Christmas he was nuts of snowmen so he was so excited to be able to make one of his own. You have to look closely here because we made a small one. I barely got this picture made before he smashed it.

All smiles!!

I had to put this in. Luke was telling me to look at Alex. She was almost half way across the field. He made sure that I knew that she was getting away.

Alex really loved the snow. She just walked around looking at her feet. She was not able to really play in it because I had so many clothes on her. Her top layer of pants were soaked so we went in because I thought she might be cold and her body was not even cold. Kids...they are resilient.

Making her way away from everyone again!!!

I love this close up of her.

We'll thanks for checking in. Maybe I will be able to keep up this week.

Have a great weekend!!

Happy Snowy 6th Birthday Kade!!!

Today is Kade's 6th birthday. Boy, time really flies!!!

He could not have asked for a better day. He was so excited that they canceled school on his birthday. This was taken this morning as we walked out in the melting snow. I will post more birthday pics later. He did not want a party so he is having two friends over to spend the night tomorrow. I am sure there will be plenty to share.

Our Christmas! FINALLY!!!!

It has been awhile but I am finally back into blogging world. We have been feeling better for a couple of days but I have been lazy and have not wanted to blog. So here it is...I know that you have all been sitting on the edge of your seats for this. I will warn you that this is long, but instead of making you look at all 158 of our photos I just picked a few from each Christmas activity.

I will begin with the visit to see Santa. I must admit that I thought for sure we would have atleast two crying, but we only had one. Luke wanted no part of sitting by Santa. Standing by and looking at him fine, but not sitting with him.

Kade's class had a Christmas program during one of the PTA meetings. Since there are so many kids and so many classes each class was assigned a song to perform. Here he is in costume singing Feliz Navidad. They all looked so cute.

A few nights later we went to Luke's program at school. As you can see he is upset and looking right at the camera. He did not start crying until he spotted us in the crowd.

The week before Christmas we decided to head over to Lake Lanier Islands to enjoy the lights. We decided to stop and roast marshmallows and make smore's. YUMMY!!!!
Kade and Luke are enjoying the marshmallows that Daddy toasted for them.

Steve making me a smore's!

Alex and I trying to get warm by the fire! It was freezing that night.

Now we have moved onto Kade's party at school. Lauren, Kade, and Ian are making reindeer food.

This was the activity at the party Kade could not wait to get to. Making his own Gingerbread House!!!! Of course we were in the last group to get to that table and he was ready. Here he is putting the finishing touches on his house.

Now on to Luke's party. Here we are starting our Christmas craft. We made a tree. He could of cared less about the actually craft all he wanted to do was put glue on everything. We eventually got everything together with lots of glue.

Instead of gifts the kids had a book exchange. Luke was ready to select his gift from the stack.

The next few are random shots of them opening gifts during the holidays. Instead of adding pictures from every single house we visited I just selected a few.

This was Alex's new set of wheels that she got for Christmas. Poor girl can not even ride it because Luke will not stay off of it. I will add that he already has a Spiderman 4-wheeler and he barely rides it.

This photo was made at my Papa's house. This is a photo of My Papa and all of his grandchildren and great grandchildren. I am the oldest grandchild and Alex is the youngest great grandchild.

This was taken right before bedtime on Christmas Eve. Steve always reads the kids The Night Before Christmas, right before Santa arrives. Luke could not resist making a face at the camera.

Kade making a silly face Christmas morning.

Alex looking around wondering where all this loot came from!

Luke was very excited about all of his new stuff. He did not know what to play with next.

And this is how our Christmas ended....Alex sick. Here she is laying in her princess sleeping bag that she received. She was already not feeling well when this photo was taken.

We'll if you are reading this it means you are still with me. Thanks for hanging in there!

Hope you guys are having a awesome NEW YEAR!!

Happy '08.

Blogging will have to wait

We'll my friends our Christmas blog will have to wait. We are all sick!!! Alex started Christmas day. She was cranky all day. That night she and I were up about 4 hrs while she screamed. She has a double ear infection. Steve, Kade, Luke, and myself all have the stomach bug today! I will post a Christmas review as soon as we are well and sanitized.

Hope you all had a Merry Christmas and if I do not blog before then.....

Have a safe and happy New Year!

Christmas Card Take....1, 323, 456

Trying to pick a picture for your Christmas card is so hard. When you have three little ones you are lucky if they are looking at the camera. Here is our attempt to spread Christmas joy to our family and friends.

Alex attempts to make a run for it!

Luke is having a crazy moment while trying to get the picture.

Alex is making sure her brothers know who is in charge by giving Luke the elbow.

Kade's look of despair is quite humorous. Alex has also lost it.

This was our first pick for a Christmas card. However, with Alex sitting her head is barley in the picture on a photo card.

This was our second choice and also our Christmas card for this year. (With Steve's hand missing of course).

This was taken after all the photos were made and we had decided that hopefully we had enough. Poor Alex was pooped out by all the posing and photo taking.

Merry Christmas!!

Alex's Party

So, I finally got the pictures from Alex's party and they turned out so cute! It was quite the day. Our only daughter turning 1. I must say that this year has flown by and it seems like she should till be a little baby sleeping most of the day, not running around the house.

Here is a photo of Alex and I talking to a guest at the party. We had lots of fun...pizza, cake, ice cream, and gifts. What a perfect day!

Here are some shots of me helping her open her gifts. I must say that she got lots of good things. You should have seen all the cute outfits that she scored. She seems to be amazed at the toy in this picture.
After several gifts she got the hang of ripping of the paper. I would start it for her and then she tear a couple of pieces off.

Her favorite part about this gift were the shoes. I had to take them from her to get her to move on to the next thing!!


Ah, the doll house. She absolutely loves this thing. It is still a little big for her, but she likes taking the characters out and putting them back in. If you have any small girls that you need gifts for this Christmas I highly recommend this toy. It has other pieces to go with it...kind of like a village.

Here is one piece of clothing that I had to put on here. She looks so cute in her styling jacket.

After most of the gifts were open Luke comes over to pick out which gifts he wants for himself. As you can see he is trying to make a run for while I have my back turned.

And now for the cake.

Alex was really not sure what was going on at this point. Gifts, cameras in her face, and all these silly people saying "Happy Birthday". She just looked at everyone like they were crazy.

She is going in for her first bite of cake by herself. I thought for a second that this could be ugly, but she really did not make that big of a mess.

However, she felt that her cup needed some special attention so she pushed it into the cake.

I decided to step in and help her out before I took the cake from her. Overall she was not that excited about the cake. She took a few bites, but she did not tear into it like some kids.

Happy Birthday Alex!!

We Love You!