Lexi's 3rd Birthday

Today, 3 years ago, is the day, I held this cute little baby for the first time.
This year I decided to throw Lexi a friend birthday party. It didn't take too long to convince her to have a Care Bear party. She talked about it for weeks. I tried to keep with a rainbow theme so here are a few things we served...

We had these rainbow jello cups one time at girl's camp, and I still remembered that treat to this day. So I attempted it just for Lexi's party. I think they were pretty cute.

Some marshmallow sucker pops. I dipped them in white chocolate and then dipped them in sprinkles. It was so fun and easy to do. Lexi even helped me make these.

I was a little bummed about the weather. It was kinda cold and windy. I had balloons tied around some care bears and put them on the table but alas, the wind kept blowing them in the food so I had to forget that idea, but at least I still had my rainbow.

When the kids showed up, they got to have a Care Bear symbol painted on their face. Here is the one Ella chose...Care A Lot, which is her favorite Care Bear

Danielle got in on that action too with a flower

Here is Lexi blowing bubbles for the kids with her new bubble blower. Of course Sunshine Bear is there too.

I totally was laughing because all the kids were so intense when she was opening the presents. Lexi would open one, hand it to a friend...then on to the next one. There was an occasional "WOW" in there, which always makes me smile. She loved all of her gifts and has had a lot of fun playing with all of them.

We had 12 kids at the party. It was crazy, but so much fun. Lexi had a blast and is still talking about her Care Bear party.

On Sunday we had a family party. I made who else but a Sunshine Bear cake. She loved it, if you can't tell!

Her big surprise was her new bike. We promised her that if she learned to use the potty we would get her a bike, so luckily that happened...well almost but close enough for me.

Lexi loved her play dough set. It make some of our favorite foods: popcorn, soda, candy, hot dogs and many more things.

And she got some princess dress up stuff. She LOVES her magic wand.

I LOVE this girl so much! I know she probably won't remember much from this weekend but hopefully she remembers that it was fun and that she is really loved.

Happy Birthday my baby girl!

A little catch up

So Johnny and I have been super busy lately so I thought I would share a little bit of what we are doing.

Johnny is super busy at work with lots of important projects. He is also right in the middle of soccer season and so far they are doing alright. They have good and bad days, but he still loves it. I just love his passion for the sport and the desire to help these young men excel in life.

I received a new calling at church. I am no longer compassionate service leader and am now an Assistant Secretary in the primary. We have a huge primary, I think about 145 kids, so needless to say they need some extra hands. I had a great time on Sunday being with them and I am looking forward to working with them and helping them build a testimony of Christ. I am still crafting when I have the time and can't wait to show some of my latest projects.

I wanted to share some funny things Lexi has said/done lately.

• So the other day after we had some cheeseburgers, I was throwing what she didn't eat away and Lexi said, "mommy you cheesed my booger"
• Lexi loves to watch movies, she calls them her TVs, and she always says they are her TVs. One day she pulled out The Sword and the Stone DVD and said it mas my TV. So we asked her which one was daddy's and she picked Heavyweights. Um is that a hint daddy?
• "Mommy, I have an ouchie on my bum bum, will you kiss my bum bum?"
• She also has been fighting me about getting in her car seat. So one day we acted like we were actually going to leave her. Now if she isn't getting ready when I ask, the first 3 times, then I tell her she will have to stay home and then she will instantly burst into tears and get ready. Kinda sad but oh so funny at the same time.

Danielle 6 month check-up

Today Danielle had her 6 month check up. The Dr said that she is perfect and I agree. Here are her stats:

Weight: 14 lbs 12.5 oz

Height: 25 inches

Head: 41.5 cm

Dr said that she is in the 20Th percentile in all areas. Some of the fun things she is doing now are:

• She is scooting ALL over the place.
• She loves to eat crackers, puffs, and fruit. She doesn't care for any green veggies but loves any orange colored ones.
• She loves Lexi and will only give her the deep gut laugh.
• She also recently has become a big Momma's girl.

Since I wasn't blogging when Lexi was this age I thought I would post her stats.

Weight: 13 lbs 6 oz

Height: 25 inches

Head: 41.5

I don't remember exactly all the fun things she was doing at this stage but I do remember that she was sitting on her own, not rolling over yet, and loved all kinds of food. Lexi was a happy baby but liked to play on her own.

I can't believe that my girls are getting so big. I also can't believe that they are almost the exact same size at this age and they look so much alike too. There is no doubt that they are my girls. I am so proud to be their mother and I hope they know everyday how much they mean to me and how much I love them.

Eastertime

Last Sunday we went up to Yamika for a family baby blessing and a baptism confirmation, so I got the girls in their Easter dresses.
We attempted another family picture, but Lexi is just at that stage where she won't cooperate when we try and take pictures, therefore no good family pictures.

Uncle Layne won over Lexi's heart. He helped her play a card game with the bigger kids, I think they even won.

I just love how enthusiastic Lexi looks while dying the eggs. (FYI don't ever buy this pack with the dumb collapsible cups, they spill...yes it happened to me....twice)

Finally I got a good smile out of her

I tried to get her to show me an egg, so I could take a picture, then she wanted me to take a picture of all the 18 eggs we did.

This little sunshine woke up bright and early to celebrate her 6 month birthday and Easter all in the same day!

When the Easter bunny comes to our house, he likes to hide jelly beans around the house and he also hides our baskets. Lexi thought it was pretty fun, and she was also happy to know that he enjoyed our carrots we put out for him.

This is what the Easter bunny put in Lexi's basket this year.

Danielle enjoyed her first pair of glasses

and Lexi enjoyed hers too.

Danielle also enjoyed giving Minnie Mouse a lot of love.

Lexi is awesome at finding Easter eggs. I loved the action shot of the egg falling out of the tree.

After working up an appetite, we enjoyed some tuffies. (aka scones)

We enjoyed watching as much conference that we could hear with 2 young kids, and then we were off to Grandma and Grandpa's. Lexi and Emery found out that the Easter bunny visited their house too, so they got to find some more eggs.

They are showing Aunt Krissy all the goods.

Johnny formed a lawn care business when he was a teenager and his brothers worked with him too. Later they took over his lawns when he went off to college. Papa John still had all of the non-working lawn mowers that they used.

And to end it all, my baby is now 6 months old. She is scooting and rolling all over the place. She is almost sitting up on her own and she has almost got herself in the crawling position. :( They grow up so fast....

I love this last picture because she looks like a little movie star telling me not to take her picture.

What a day today

So I try really hard not to write about the rough days, but this is one I just have to record so that my children can see how it really was and that they are not always prefect little girls.


So my day started about 1:40am with Danielle not sleeping. Johnny and I took turns about every hour getting up and putting her back to sleep. About 3am I not only hear Danielle crying again, but Lexi yelling at her to be quiet. So I chose to ignore Lexi until she says something about being poopy.

So now I am already tired and to top it all off I got the girl's cold. Danielle is still dripping like a faucet. She really can't do too much to get into trouble at this age, but she did dump Lexi's cereal all over, spit up on me about 4 times on top of all her boogers she also wiped on me.

Lexi usually doesn't get into many things, but I think today she decided to let all of those days where she should have been naughty, to be today. So she clogged the toilet with toilet paper, got poop on the floor, pulled the stuffing out of a couch cushion, dumped water all over the bathroom floor, and dumped 2/3 of her shampoo in the tub and the rest of another one. Plus Lexi and I have been butting heads lately, so she throws fits about the smallest things and just DOES NOT listen to anything I say to her. I suppose she has decided to hit the terrible 3's a little early. Oh lucky me.

I am sure I forgot many other things but I am just glad to say that this day is over...oh wait baby is crying again....thanks goodness for tomorrows.

Craft Fair Experience

We did it! Our craft fair was last weekend and we had a pretty good time. Betsy and I worked really hard for the past 2 and a half months to make all of these pretty things...

Here is us at our booth. We had a good time but we a little disappointed in the amount of people who came by. It wasn't really well advertised and it was their first time holding a craft fair. Most of our sales on Saturday were all of our friends and family who we advertised to ourselves. So thank you for all of you friends and family who supported us.

We didn't quite break even but we have tons of items left over. We will probably be holding a craft "yard" sale in a few weeks to help re coop some of our money. I will totally do it again and hopefully next time we will have more people.

My brain is already thinking of new crafts for next time....

Spring crafts

I finally got my spring decorations out only to find out I only have one thing to pull out. So I decided to make one. So I made this beauty for my front door.
and I saw this on a craft blog and thought it was so awesome and simple. It was so easy to make and adds a little something to my entrance table.