Saturday, July 2, 2011

The Set Up for the Princess Party

Castle Cake fit for a princess.

The "Princess Parlor" where the girls got to dress up in costume, get their face painted, hair done and nails painted.

Each of these crepe paper cupcakes had a ring pop in the center that the girls got to unwrap as quickly as they could to unveil their prize.



The Food consisted of crown sandwiches with strawberry cream cheese, watermelon, rasberries, strawberries, strawberry yogurt and strawberry lemonade.


Prize bags consisted of a princess cup, paddle, stickers, pencil sharpener, bubbles, candy necklaces and would be filled later with candy from the pinata.


Each princess received a tiara and wand at their place. Candy decorated the table.

Corban at 7 Months

"Dorban"...Kenzie used to not be able to pronounce her "C" sound, so we developed this nickname for our favorite little man. He continues to delight. Eating is only semi-interesting to him. I can be feeding him, but if there is someone more interesting around, he is easily distracted. He continues to love people and smile readily. He is getting around quite well. He mostly army crawls, although he has successfully gotten on hands and knees to move around. He prefers the army crawl because he can get around quickly with it. He loves mommy, and he'll be perfectly fine in another's arms, until he sees me. He then begins panicing and wanting me. Sleeping is OK. He is not great at napping during the day. However, morning naps have just begun getting better again. He normally has a short afternoon nap too. He was sleeping nicely through the night for a couple weeks there. Now, he almost makes it through the night. He wakes pretty regularly at 5:00 AM. Sometimes he's up for the day then, and other times he will crash again while nursing. He is so squirmy. He doesn't like to just sit still. Instead, it is a workout to hold him. He often wants to throw himself to the ground. He can play by himself for a bit, but mostly he wants to be interacting with others.

Father's Day 2011







Father's Day was fabulous. We have a tradition with my family to do beer tasting, bratwurst and ice cream. We each bring two kinds of beer for tasting. Everyone rates, comments and votes. We also enjoy trying unique ice cream flavors. After that, we went over to Jeremy's parents' house for a BBQ.

WSU Cake



Our friends, the Pritchards, have 8 kids. We have been blessed to get to know them better through our small group. They are an inspiring family who love the Lord and are passionate about marriage and raising children. They wrote the book "Going Public." www.goingpublicthebook.com You can also access their family ministry blog from there. All that said, their son, Tana, will be playing football for Washington State next year. They asked me to make him a cake, and here was the end result.

Our New Small Group

We have begun a new small group from our church. We are co-leading with two other couples, and we already feel blessed to be a part of this group. With have adults and kids of all ages, which is fun. The goal of the group is to focus on our marriages and families. We are co-leading with the small groups pastor and wife and the family ministry pastor and wife, and we are seeing how each person in the group has been put there for a reason. We enjoy this Wednesday night time to connect and become a church family. I host most of the time, which is fun.

And Yet Another Playdate...





...and our first experience with the slip and slide. A big hit!!





Park Play Dates



Gabby (or Lizzy??)


Kenzie


Halle


Corban


Kenzie, Gabby (or Lizzy??), Abigail, Halle, Miles
Zavion



Miles & Owen


Kenzie


Tuesdays often bring a playdate. This one was at a park. The Overstreets, Foits and Wilkenings are often there. There's been a number of other families joining in. It's great to have all the kids playing and making friends. It's not bad for us adults to have some fun together also.

Corban's First Bites



Corban had his first rice cereal at 6 months of age. He was fine with the whole experience. Since then, food hasn't been overally interesting to him. I, admittedly, haven't jumped in with both feet either, as it is a lot of work. His favorite thing about meal time is spitting at the right moment and letting food fly everywhere.



Our Kids





Mother's Day













It was another fabulous Mother's Day. We had a morning brunch with Jeremy's family at Jenn's house. Unfortunately, we didn't get any pictures there. Then, it was the annual day at the horse races with my family, full of hands dipped in wax, pony rides and a bit of putting our money down for our favorite horses.