Pinkalicious Party!

Trues favorite book has been pinkalicious for about 2 years! We have the whole collection of Victoria Kann book and this is the one he goes back to over and over again! So on spring break I planned a pinkalicious party for all the kids. It was SO much fun!

 We decorated crowns I cut out with lots of fun items! Bells, ribbon & glitter to name a few.

I asked all the kids to either wear pink or green adding to the fun:)

 Shilo

 Sofia

 True

 Kaeden

 William

 Gavin

 Our Pink and Green foods!

We ended  our party with mini pink and green cupcakes. I'm so glad we did this! It was so much fun and a great way to end spring break!

Bee ME!

When I was in Young Womens I remember being kidnapped bright and early on a Saturday morning.

I have no idea what we did, or what the activity was for, but I remember feeling special.

I wanted to pass that same feeling of love and feeling of importance onto my Activity Day girls.

So Sue and I planned a Bee Me party.

To teach the girls that it's good to be yourself!

I stayed at my house and fixed all the food and decorations while Sue 'kidnapped' the girls at 7am! 

On a Saturday! {poor kids}

She started with Shilo so she could be surprised too, then had Shilo help wake up all the rest of the girls. They had a blast!

 They returned to  a yummy breakfast of grapefruit, chocolate dipped strawberries Sue made, watermelon, grapes, bananas, peanut butter and jelly muffins & a delicious baked french toast with warm syrup! 

 We planted yellow pansies in little pots for the girls to take home adorned with a cute bee flower stake and black and yellow tulle.  

Then we tied all the chairs in tulle too.

 Ellie helped us out and decorated my sandwich board. 

 Here they are, having no idea what is going on! SO fun! Their excitement was contagious! 

 After breakfast Sue had a GREAT activity for the girls to do.

 She had them make a beautiful & creative poster with flowers and bees and a beehive to show the 6 B's from President Hinckley's talk. It was just so sweet. Every time I walk by it hanging up, it reminds me of this activity & what we should all strive to BEE!

 Hopefully the girls will be reminded too:

Be True, Be Grateful, Be humble, Be clean, Be prayerful, Be smart.

Sue brought little cake decorating sugar bees for the tops of our muffins and the girls just thought those were the cats meow!

This was so much fun! Sometimes when I'm in the midst of planning a big activity like this I think "why do I make things so complicated?" but then I see the looks on the girls faces and it's all worth it. I gain an appreciation for my calling and an understanding for why it's so important.

And there's nothing more fun than planning something fun for my daughter and her friends!

Spring

Spring is here and as usual the weather is unpredictable in Seattle, but that won't stop this happy little man!

I wish a squirt gun could lift my mood as quickly as it does his.

And under those long jeans and  his cozy sweater is a Buzz lightyear swim suit waiting to see the sun.

Moms Monday~ mid winter break

 The kids and I had the day off, so we headed to the gardens. AND to have an indoor picnic in Johns conference room. None of us had ever been before and Jordan is in a photo class so this would be good for her to meet her quota of pictures she needed to take while on break.

 I LOVE these! They were the first thing you see when you walk up from the parking lot.

I thought these were big till I saw more further into the tour.

 The garden had these really cool metal tags on all the foliage. Telling you it's name and origin. Neat idea. 

 So pretty

 Jordan  took this cute one! I'm rarely in pictures so this was nice to have.

 The kids had the best time running up and down all the stairs. And they were beautiful stairs, well thought out, hand paved with soft stone. Lovely addition.

 I'm amazed at such beauty that can grow in such cold weather.

 This is by far my favorite picture! {maybe of all time!}

Next I'll post a copy Jordan did some edits to so it will fit beautifully on my black and white photo wall. 

 They found this fun stone bench and had a hey day posing with it

 They are so fun!

 And silly!

 True loved  the gardens and the free range he got to have.

 We were stoked to see that it had a suspension bridge!!! It was just added this last summer.

 Chastin loves to climb! {what kid doesn't?} So he climbed up on one of the pillars to the bridge and perched there happily

 Amazing! ~ more amazing is that  this park is free and no one comes and vandalizes it! They don't knock these over. Amazing. And the fact that lots of people bring their kids here and they leave them alone makes me happy. I'm glad, because then we all get to enjoy them! SO cool!

 The gardens provide a scavenger hunt for the visitors, and one of the items on the list is this giant toad.

 Love that these guys still love to hang out with each other and with their mom...that makes my heart happy

Because I sure love taking time to enjoy their spirits!

{ we didn't notice till we got there, but 3 out of 4 of them wore a vest. I'ts a Seattle thing??}

 I like that there are these little ponds for the kids to look in, and I like the refection of the tree in the water too.

The house of garden gnomes.

Story is, the person who donated all the acres of land and their home when they died, kept many gardens. In this one he built a little home in the side of a hill ~originally to house garden tools & decor. In the summer they open it up and have little gnomes as decoration in there. Cant' wait to go back in the peak of summer and visit the gardens  and see the fully bloomed beauty. {and be warm}

Such a fun day!

True is 4!

True got this super cool t shirt from his dad, it looks like a super man shirt but it has a cape on the back! How fun is that?!

 I ordered a Toy Story cake from the Edmonds Bakery, he was so excited! I seem to always order a cake from this bakery when my kids turn 4, I don't know why but it's become fun a tradition.

Our kids always get to pick a dinner place, True chose Jimmy Johns~ Everyone was pretty happy about that!

                                               

 Blowing out the big 4 candles!

 Cheese!

 {love this shot!}

 Every year True uses his hands to eat his cake! This year he started with a fork, but heard us talking about him using his hands and got all funny and ate the last of his cake like this!

 True is very into Toy Story {ever since he went on the Toy Story rides at Disneyland}  So we found him the talking Zurg he wanted. He was elated! And it came with a Buzz with light up wings! 

My good friend Audrey made these towels for True, they are a dinosaur and a blue super hero  one that looks like a cape and has a giant T on the back instead of an S! She is so creative!

                                  

A couple of days later the bakery gave me a new cake 
because I had asked for a hand piped cake and they didn't have time so they made him his own personal size cake! He loved that one too..

He had a great birthday filled with fun! We are so happy that True is in our family and brings such fun young energy to our home!

January 365