Out photo wall

Here is our new photo wall. It was a pain in the butt and it's not perfect but it is finally done.   It isn't even all of our pictures. Ha ha. 

 

you may have to click on the picture to see the entire wall

 

Under the Sea Party Time!

 

 

Amelia had her third birthday party this weekend.  She was so excited to come home and see everything decorated. 

She chose an Ariel theme... or as she called it "under the sea" party. 
We decorated the kitchen.


And the doorway to the living room.


We had lots of yummy food.  We had walking tacos and these crabby croissants.


We had lots of snacks like gold fish, and these buffalo chicken pinwheels.

And this octopus swiss dip.  Amelia loved the octopus and got mad when he was gone.


I made some desserts.  Ariel oreo balls.


I also made the cake.  It didn't turn out quite how I wanted it to but Amelia was happy with it.


I also made some little oyster/pearl gob type things.

Amelia got so many great presents. 

Lots of frozen stuff, princess stuff, she loved her clothes, an ariel swim suit, and princess barbies.


She may have been the most excited for her umbrella.  Her voice went to this super high range and I have no idea what she said but it was joyous.  Ha ha.


It was a fun party. Amelia loved it.  I wish our house had more room (and parking) so we could invite more people. 

Hayden's Room

Awhile back I posted pictures of Amelias's new room. 

Well Hayden now has a new room also.  He chose to have his room painted blue.  He loves it.

 

We were lucky enough to get nice beds from my brother.  His older girls wanted new ones so they gave them to us.  Hayden got the loft bed.  (Amelia got the pull out, more on that later)  He loves sleeping up high.  This was perfect for his room because it is so small.  So he now has extra space underneath his bed.  He really likes having his own desk under there.

 

When you walk in to the left is his dresser.  Above it are all of his star wars pictures of himself from Disney.  He also has a clock that Grandma got him.  And his moon light he got from Pap last year.

 

On the other side of the door is his storm trooper fat head.  During the move it lost a foot!

His shelf is now on the back wall.  It holds his piggy banks, masks, books, and some of his toys.

The wall across from the bed has his yoda fat head and his one of himself as a jedi. 

I blew up the picture of him fighting darth vader and put the quote "the force is strong with this one" above it.  The garbage can is from ikea and I put star wars clings on it.  This holds all of his weapons.  The boy loves playing with swords, guns light sabers,etc.

 

Here is a closer look under the bed.  The star wars lamp is on his desk and his caricature from disney.  he is capatain America.  And we hung his boba fett picture down there.  The drawers you see have all of his dress up stuff (mainly super hero costumes).

And this big darth vader from grandma barb hangs out by the ladder to the bed. 

 

 

So we have now gotten two rooms done in the house.  The basement is all painted and the floor is done but we haven't done anything else to it yet.  Still deciding.

 

The living room is painted and we are getting a new couch so that is the next project.  More info on that later.  Big changes there.

Amelia is 3

 

 

This cutie turns 3 today. Although if you ask her she is still 2.  She has been so excited for her birthday for the past few months and now it is finally here. 



Some Amelia facts:

She is super skinny. She could skip a meal and not care if would let her. 

Still is very tall. Everyone thinks she has been 3 forever. 

Likes to play strawberry shortcake. Barbies. Princesses. Baby dolls. Kitchen. Doctor (Doc Mcstuffins).  Dress up (mostly princesses). 

She loves to color and do art projects.  She brings home 3 or four coloring pages a day from the gym. 

Whatever she plays she makes a huge mess

Loves fruit

Is still the best player.  She can play alone for hours.  She likes to play with other kids too.  But I never have to worry about her or entertain her.

She likes to pick her clothes, shoes and pajamas

She is the queen of ignoring you. She won't even flinch if you say something to her she doesn't want to do. 

She sleeps with her whole body and head under her covers and is a sweaty pig when you take them off her.

She still sleeps with her one baby doll and 2 baby blankets every night.  And adds other "friends" to the mix.

Loves dance school.  Also loves to pick out her dance outfits

Gets mad and talks with attitude and sticks her lips out like Hayden 

She is overall pleasant and happy but she does get fiery too.

She has an ear piercing scream when she is mad or hayden is bothering her.  It is crowd stopping.

Super ticklish

She has short curly hair, that easily becomes a frizzy mess.  I don't know what to do with it

Loves cookies, cakes, pop and anything sweet.

Doesn't nap too often anymore.  But every now and then we will find her asleep during the day.  I guess it catches up to her.

Has been potty trained for a while now.  She doesn't wear pull ups at night either. 

Likes to watch old Mickey Mouse movies.  Especially Mickey's Christmas carol and Three Mouskateers.

Sleeps in her big girl bed

Her favorite princess is now Ariel/Little Mermaid (it was sleeping beauty)

Obviously is very girly and has no interest in the things Hayden did with Mike at that age (hitting golf balls, cutting wood, working outside, etc).  But she is starting to like his super hero shows.

She scares very easy.  Wind, loud trucks, animals, you name it.

Hates wearing jeans just like Hayden

Her favorite color is pink...of course.



We love having Amelia in our family.  She gets more kisses on her cheeks then probably any kid on the planet.  I seriously kiss them all day.  She is such a good little girl.  Her smile always makes me happy. 

 

Happy St Patty's Day

Cabin fever

It is has been a long and very cold winter.  One weekend in the end of February it was warm out and we took full advantage.  We did the short hike in Settlers Cabin to see the waterfall.  Then we played at the park.  There were lots of people there.  I guess they  felt the same way we did.

Here are some pictures from the snow this year: (you may have to click on them to see the full image.  Blogger isn't letting me resize these ones)

Here is a video of a snow  rollercoaster Mike made for Hayden.  He loved it.  The video is of a derailment.  Ha ha.  (click the title below)

snow video

Amelia's hair after the cruise.

Here is what Amelia's hair looked like when we took her braids out. :)

I left it like that for over a day because it was just so funny to see her with a fro. 

But Hayden finally asked me to wash it because it was too weird for him.