Reading will help you get your ZZZZZZZZ's

Every night since the kids were born we read before bed. Now that the kids are getting older, they read to us, then we read to them. So last night Lukas was patiently waiting for his turn... and well, it just took too long. Before we knew it, we heard someone snoring. We looked over to find Luke crashed on Randy's shoulder snoozing away! So cute ♥

What happened to all the baby wipes?!

"I'm innocent, really..."Hmmmm, where did all these baby wipes come from?!
Oh, it was YOU ♥

Nickolas

So, I was out of the room for a minute and well... that's all it takes, a minute. I came back into the room to find Nickolas pulling all the baby wipes from the container. Just happily plucking them one after the other and sucking the "juice" from them. YUCK! At least he's clean now!

Is pumpkiny a word??

I woke up today and felt like pumpkin! So, Mackenzie and I made yummy pumpkin muffins. They were full of warm, tasty, pumpkiny goodness!! Thank you Cooking Light magazine!

Happy 6th Birthday Jacksen!!

Well... YAY!! we survived another Birthday party. We celebrated Jacksen's 6Th Birthday on the last day of school. It was the day before his actual birthday and it just made sense to do it then. We also joined forces with his good buddy Kyle, who also turned 6 (their birthdays are 2 days apart) We invited the entire kindergarten class since we were having the party right after school at the park (which is connected to the school, so they just walked straight over) The rest of the school didn't get out for another hour and a half so we had the park completely to ourselves.

It was GREAT! I made Pizza cakes (complete with candy toppings and white chocolate "cheese") to go with our theme of pizza and water guns.

** I've had a number of requests re: the pizza cake. I used a 14" round from wilton (takes 2 cake mixes) bake at 325 for 50-55 min. Used choc. frosting mixed with red food coloring. Use shaved white chocolate for the cheese. Use real fruit leather (in the produce dept) in cherry and use a small circle cookie cutter for the pepperoni, sliced fat black jelly beans for the olives, sliced up green jelly candies for the peppers, and white ones for onions. I halved malt balls and placed them like sausage. Any other fun candy toppings you can come up with. You can always get a pizza place to give or sell you a box and round cardboard to put the cake on. Enjoy!!

The pinatas were destroyed in a matter of minutes and all the 30+ kids scrambled to scoop up the loot!! It was a great ending to a wonderful school year for the kids. Kyle and Jack had a blast celebrating together with all their pals and we were glad the park was a great place to play and get soaked with water guns.

Happy Birthday Jack and Kyle!!

Queen for a day

Uncle Chris even stopped in for a visit and a game of Operation
Jack at School with the puppies

Queen for a day!

Queen Nonnie, the royal reader

Mac, showing the puppies to her class

Nonnie and Mac at her class

My Mom is so great! She came up all the way from Vacaville so Mackenzie and Jack could take her puppies into their classrooms to show them to everyone. The students loved them of course, and had plenty of questions. My Mom even got to be the "royal reader" in Jack's class!! The Teacher dressed her up and they played royal music as she strolled down the red carpet while to kids bowed to her. It was really funny. She read the book "bed head" a family favorite that Jack picked out at home to bring. How fun for them to have their Nonnie come to school with them.

The puppies have arrived!

My Mom's Min Pin just had her puppies (an event my kid's were counting down the days for) They all love animals and unfortunately for them, they were born into our family. It's not that we don't like animals, Randy and I just don't want to own any. So the little puppies were so cute and the kids just couldn't get enough of them. Thanks Nonnie for sharing them with us!

Brandy's babies

I spent some time with my gal pal, Brandy visiting with her tiny twin boys the other day. It really reminded me how precious and how fragile life can be and I came home grateful. Thanks Brandy for sharing their sweet little spirits with me. What a gift life is to all of us...