Things Parents Say

Allen:

Do you see what just happened, Lizzie?
Ellie was in the box. You sat on the box. So you sat on Ellie. That's not nice.

Lizzie:

Ohhhh...

Princess Party

Lizzie has been asking to do a Princess party for sometime now, so when her birthday was coming, we knew what the party would be. We ended up inviting a few of Lizzie friends over for crust-less sandwiches, chips, veggies, fruit, gogurt, amazing princess punch (bug my great friend Sarah for the recipe sometime, it is well worth it), and of course cake and ice cream. The cake was beautifully made by another dear friend, Jessica:


can you believe she made it all out of icing!

Anyhow, the party was great, and I think the kids had fun (which is the point). And with the exception of the glitter everywhere, there wasn't much to clean up or fix afterward!



Thanks to everyone who came and made Lizzie's party so special!

Oh, and by the way, Lizzie seems to think that we need another party next week just like it. Hopefully by next week I can get through the idea of a birthday being once a year...maybe I should start by figuring out how to explain how long a year is? Any Ideas????

Gardening Fun

So I started a garden this year, and am pretty please with it over all. I have made errors and killed plants, but over all it is do well.

I should have taken a picture when I first got my plot, so that you could have seen how many weeks and things were in my little section of dirt. But, you all know what weed riddled land looks like!

It started off looking smallish:

Now I have two plots (I needed more room, one of the errors I mentioned earlier): The original plot now

Rescue section of new plot with wild Strawberries and overgrown peas

My overgrown Cilantro (coriander)

Green beans and peas

The true test will be whether anything edible grows on the plants :-)

Hey, does anyone know what to do to rescue tiny squash plants that really didn't like being put so close together, and hated being dug up and replanted to spread them out?

BOZ

So we don't let the girls watch much television or movies, since they are still pretty little, but occasionally we do put in a DVD (usually BOZ or The Princess and the Pauper). Daddy got a shot of the girls starting to watch BOZ this past week.

Boz Dancing

It is pretty fun, though you miss the excitement that took place before the camera was rolling, with Ellie jumping up and down, shaking with anticipation of what was to come.

The 3rd Birthday

Lizzie turned 3 almost a week ago and she had a great time opening gifts, hearing her favorite song (Happy Birthday to Lizzie), and of course eating her favorite foods on her birthday (she picked chicken nuggets and fries with cucumber this year).

The gift opening was quite entertaining, since Lizzie faithfully went through opening each well wrapped gift and ignoring the loud noise next to her. Check it out. First, the link to the YouTube video of it. Then some pics.

Lizzie's 3rd birthday

Lizzie received a helmet and pads from Great-Grandma Sewell and was sporting them along with the bathing suit we got her. Of course also holding her new cell phone and camera (princess) from Auntie Nono.

Spring Came and Went

So the Spring here was quite short (and from what I hear that is normal around here, we have even heard that sometimes it just goes straight from Winter to Summer and virtually skips Spring altogether...anyhow, I digress).

We didn't get a ton of shots, but here are some of the good Spring shots from around campus.

Aloha From Auntie Nano (or Nono depending on the Day)

So my sister Lissa went to Hawaii recently and sent us a "wish-you-were-there-here's-a-taste-of-what-I-saw" package. It was really very sweet of her. There was banana macadamia nut pancake mix, coconut syrup, some chocolate (very addicting macadamia nut chocolate, not to be eaten when watching your weight), and of course for the girls:


Thanks Auntie, what would we do without grass skirts and coconut bras!

Catch-Up Time

So, we haven't uploaded pictures in awhile and now finally sat down to load Lizzie's Birthday pictures, only to discover a plethora of pictures from the beginning of Spring through yesterday. Bear with us while we blog, blog again, and blog some more, but we have a lot to share and finally have some time to do it!



Isn't this sweet picture of Lizzie loving on her little sissy great?! She was instructing her on how to go about pretending to cook.

Where's your line?

I'm posting it, but Steph came up with this question:

At what point are you done with a bag of potato chips?

1. No more whole chips
2. No more half chips
3. No more quarter chips
4. Handful of crumbs
5. Shaking the bag into your mouth
6. Licking your finger to press against the inside of the bag

Shameless Plugs

Another baby-wearing contest

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