Party Day - 3 year old style

Here is a brief recap of the girls birthday. I love the fact that they are still so easy to please.

- Earlier in the day I took them to Harmons and let them pick out a Mylar baloon. Lilly picked Ariel and Afton Care Bears. They were so excited and LOVED watching the lady blow up their balloon.
- I let them pick out a lunchable at the store for lunch. They always think this special treat is so cool.

That night we had family over for a celebration. Here are a few pictures. Thank you to all for coming and helping us celebrate these two girls being in our family.

I love this picture that Lizzie took because it shows how small my "big girls" still are :)

Opening Presents. After each one Lilly would ask "More presents?"

Helmets for their new scooters. Well technically Afton got a new scooter and Lilly got Lizzie's old one. But don't tell Lilly :)

With their cupcakes



On a funny note, it has been a couple days and Afton still insists she is two. Lilly on the other hand is very happy to be three :)

I know this adorable chubby face won't last forever. Oh, how I love it.

Three!

How can these cute, crazy, precious, trouble makers be 3 on March 25th? I have been having a hard time knowing my youngest will soon be three. And yes we are still 99% sure we are done having kids (Heavenly Father may have a different plan and if that is the case we would accept him or her with surprised but open arms.) I think it just hits harder as your youngest grow up.

Despite my denial (and a few tears that they are 3) here are some fun facts about the girls


Afton- This girl just melts my heart. . What she lacks for in listening and staying out of trouble skills she definitely makes up for in being the cutest, kindest, sweetest, girl.

1. She loves to cudddle and give hugs and kisses


2. Favorite saying is "Me do it!"



3. Loves being outside wether it is warm or cold. She has even learned to get her snowsuit and boots on herself because her mom got tired of always putting them on. She is loving this spring weather and loves to explore the backyard almost all day long.



Lilly- she is what we like to call our evil genuis. We mean that in the most loving way of course :)

1. She can say and recognize all her ABC's,knows her colors, counts to 20, tells you the sounds of some letters, sings many many songs from memory, makes up her own songs and has started to quote movies.


2. Loves to watch Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Johnny Depp version). Lilly calls it "Willy Wonka movie." She really just loves to watch TV and movies and probably would watch all day if I let her.



3. She currently is in a screaming phase whenever she is frusterated and doesn't care if we are at church, library, store, etc. to show her screaming skills.

Cooking party

For Lizzie's friend party she wanted to have a cooking party. 7 year old parties are so MUCH easier to plan than previous years. Her friends came over and...

First- they decorated their chef hats. I bought paper chef hats and then they put their names on them and decorated them with stickers



Second- they each were given an apron. SO MANY THANKS TO MY TALENTED AWESOME FRIEND VAL!!!! They were the cutest things and the girls thought it was so cool they got to take them home.



Third- the girls made their own pizzas with english muffins as the crust. This is Lizzie's really good friend Sophie. She is the cutest thing under that hat :)



Fourth- I taught the girls how to make chocolate covered strawberries. Yum! And the girls loved this. No pictures since my hands were busy controlling the mess of melted chocolate.

Fifth- opening presents. It was so cute to see how excited the girls got to watch Lizzie open the presents they gave her. So cute.



Lizzie has such a great group of friends right now and they are all so adorable. It was a fun if not loud (girls like to scream when they are excited) party

LIZZIE

This burst of personality turns 7 today.

Here are seven interesting facts and pictures about Lizzie from the past year.

1. Has not lost any teeth yet

2. Does not like to give hugs or kisses.

3. Has a bed but rarely uses it. She has her own bed in the girls room but prefers to sleep on the floor in Ethan's room. I think they just really like being together.
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4. Tries her best to wear something purple every day.


5. Loves strawberries, tulips and vacations.


6. Has excelled immensely in her reading just within the past couple months.
*By the way how can you not smile at this picture :) Even better is she took it herself. She was the chef from Little Mermaid for Halloween

7. Has no interest in sports, piano lessons or anything like that. I barely have her talked into taking her dance class.



Happy Birthday to our amazing daughter who makes the world much more beautiful (and interesting).


* I also added a few more posts in the last couple days to any who want to see.

Color

After careful consideration of all votes.... I used both colors :)
Funny how a plan to just paint ONE wall in the kitchen turns into painting your whole main floor :)Sorry I don't have any before pictures but here is the new look.

Kitchen is now a color called Yellow Brick Road. I LOVE IT!



*the lighting in this one isn't very good but I promise the color is nice! I am going to put something on each side of the mirror but haven't decided what yet.



Front Room is now Cherry Tart. I need to figure out a better way to place my family and kid photos so I am still working on that.

Winter entertainment

What do you do as you wait for the days of spring when you can play outside?

You dress your dog up in size 2T pajamas

or
You pretend your a kitty and make your bed in a kitty box that can also double as the dress up bin

or
you find a pair of swimming goggles and think you need to wear them all day while pretending to be diving in the ocean

Please spring come quickly.

Valentines

I am a little late but I really did have a great Valentines this year. Here are some of the reasons why...

#1- I was the last person in my house to get up that morning. That hasn't happened for YEARS (not counting bedrest of course). My nice son woke up and got breakfast (aka cereal) ready for all of his sisters. I don't know if he did it on purpose or not but I told him that was the best Valentines present he could give me.

#2- My kids were home from school. Even though it is much more noisy and crazy with them all home I LOVE having them home.

#3- Jim and I went to eat at our favorite restuarant- Red Butte Cafe. Yum!

#4- Jim and I also went to the Sarah Mclachlan concert at Kingsbury Hall. Not enough can be said about how much I like her music and she is AMAZING in concert.

All in all a very good day:)