Happy 5th Birthday!!!

The pictures are a little backwards, but here they are getting ready to blow out the candles!
C's yellow Mickey Mouse cake
M's purple Minnie cake!
Z's pink Minnie cake! (Thanks Mrs. A)
Some of their friends running wild in the big gym!
More fun playtime!
Eating a pizza lunch!

Opening presents from MeMaw and Pepaw and screaming, "We're FIVE!!!"
Mickey birthday banner that I made.
The cake table.

The kids celebrated their 5th birthday this past weekend with a b/day party on Saturday and a small family party followed by a church picnic on Sunday. They had a great time and had lots of wonderful friends show up and received many awesome gifts. Unfortunately, I do not have pictures from the church picnic b/c I took them all with my 35mm camera. I do hope to post some more pictures from the b/day party that our sweet cousin-in-law took with his digital camera.

Flashback to the 80's

If you can remember these hot sweaty masks that cut into your face and creeped you out, then you are a child of the 80's.

P.S.- If you couldn't guess, they are the Tin Man and Dorothy.

Fun times with our favorite friends!

3 princesses!
3 Princes
Best Pals (and maybe M's 1st crush)
Z's best bud and partner in crime
C's best pal

Catching chickens at night while they were on their roost
More chicken fun!
Being cool!
Trying to get 6 people to pose for a picture is impossible!!!

Latest sewing projects!

My friend and I are trying to get a small embroidery business started and these are some of our samples and orders for other people. Of course most of our samples are for our own children!!

C's 1st official game

Z, C, M b/4 the big game!!!
He got to be a captain for the coin toss. (#33)
Busting through the banner (notice Z and M helping hold it)

He is on the far left.
Daddy helping coach the defense.
M so proud of her brother winning his first game!!

1st Pep Rally

C is the short one in the middle wearing ALL WHITE!!!!!!
Can you spot him??
Standing with his pee-wee football team

Last week, C's pee-wee football team was invited to attend the local school's kick-off pep rally. All of the park ball teams walked out in front of the football stands and threw candy. They followed the varsity cheerleaders onto the football field and were joined by all of the other park ball teams, the local JV and varsity football teams, the band, and JV and pee-wee cheerleaders. They released balloons and cheered for the local varsity team. He was SOOOO excited and proud to be on the "Big" field. He is the youngest on his team. Everybody else is 5 and 6 yrs. old. He is also the smallest. I can't wait for his first game. It will be hysterical.

Dance "Recycle"

M and Z in black at their dance recital (or recycle as Z likes to call it)
M was very serious about it
Their 2 teachers are standing in front and this is their whole class
Very proud little ballerinas
Brother is very proud of them too!!

The girls took a 6 week dance class that was held one day a week for one hour each week. It included 30 minutes of ballet and 30 minutes of tap. They LOVED it!!! They kept everything so secretive from me b/c they wanted to show off at their final class (or recital as we called it). M really picked up on all of the foot movements but not the hand movements of ballet. Z had all of the hand movements down but not the foot movements. They both did really well at tap and loved the LOUD tap shoes.

They will start another dance class this week at a dance studio closer to our house that will be structured just like the class above. While they do this, C is playing pee-wee football. I will post pictures of him later.

Imagination!

One box, 3 kids, and an unlimited imagination:

a boat

a car

an airplane

a house

an elevator

a pirate ship

Cinderella's carriage

a bed

a bathtub

a spaceship

and list could go on and on and on

Sprinkler and tub fun!

M's bubble beard and princess crown
Z's bubble beard and mohawk
C's bubble beard
Cooling down "ALL" parts of their bodies
Look how big Buster is now!!!!
Sisterly love!
Triple the love!

Keepin' cool
C-Z-M
The best way to cool off on a hot summer day!