More birthday fun

For birthdays it I usually only do a friend party every other year on the even ages. It is time consuming and expensive to have parties. But I do love to plan and throw and awesome party that is why I opted for every other year. I feel like the big birthdays are all evens 8, 12, 16, and 18. This year Maleah turned 5 so it was her off year. I still wanted to do something and make her feel special though.

In Maleah's preschool the birthday kid gets to bring a treat for the whole class, sit in the birthday chair and wear the cool birthday hat. She was so excited to get all the extra attention at school. They were learning about eating healthy this day and did some exercising, hence the sweatpants :). She sure does love her preschool!

Since she didn't get a party I did let her pick 1 friend to go to the movies with. She picked Kaydance from church and was so excited. We went to see Despicable Me 2, which was really cute and a fun movie that is not princess, if you know what I mean.  

We did have a family dinner on her birthday as well, it was really low key and nothing to fancy but I think she enjoyed her birthday.

Boy she is growing too fast and I really do miss her as a baby, but I'm loving seeing her grow and becoming the person she is!

Happy Birthday Kait!

Yesterday my sweet little Kait turned 2! Time has flown by and she has grown up so fast. Kaitlyn you are such a big girl and want to be just like your big sister. At two Kaitlyn you can talk VERY well, you can sing the ABC's and count to 10. You are also learning your colors and most of the time you know blue, yellow, and green.  Although it changes whenever I ask, I think your favorite color is purple. Whenever you color you always want to use the purple crayon. You want to be a big girl and so you are done wearing diapers, unfortunately I don't think you are quite ready to be potty trained but you want to wear "panties" like big sister. You are usually a good eater, when there is something you don't like though you will make the cutest face and say "YUCK". I can't help but smile because it is so cute. When we are driving I usually let you listen your CD with fun songs on it. Your favorite is the bumble bee song and whenever it comes on you say "come on mom sing it" and when you watch sprout tv and Lucy comes to show us whats on next you always say "come on Lucy show us". I don't know why but whenever you say those two things, they way you say it, just makes me smile. You are a great sister, just today Mea wanted to play with your flashlight you got for your birthday. Dad told her no because it is yours and she can't just take the toys you are playing with. This made Mea cry. So you came over to her and said "here Mea you can play with it" and gave her your flashlight to play with, mom was so proud of you! Kaitlyn we love you so much and we are so blessed every day to have you in our family!

Birthday Morning

The party was Butterfly themed

Grandma made the beautiful centerpieces

haha, every time was try to get her to smile for the camera this is what we get

love this face

All tuckered out after the party

Happy 3rd Birthday Princess

         Happy Birthday Princess, today our little baby turned 3 years old! Maleah I hope you had a great birthday and that you felt like the princess you are! You truly make our lives happier! You are always so sweet and have a special ablity to know when someone is sad and needs a hug, especially mommy. You have a very soft heart and you never want to see anyone sad or crying. You love to play with Kaitlyn and you always try so hard to take care of her. You are always so kind to share your things with sister. Your sister loves you very much!

       You love going to dance class and then showing off all your moves to all of your family, especially grandma and grandpa. You love to sing and you are very good at remembering the words to all the songs you know.  You are such a good helper, and you are always willing to do what mom askes you to do. You love to draw and color pictures for grandma and mommy. You love to pray and you never let us forget to have family prayer each night, you are starting to say your prayers all on your own and you are so good at it!

         Maleah I love you so much, you are always my little princess! You truly bring so much joy and laughter to our family! We are so lucky to have you in our family! 

Birthday Party Fun (Part 2)

Sorry, I don't know how this happened but I put the pictures in two different posts, so here are the rest of them. Scroll down until after the valentines post to see the other pictures.

After the party ready for bed.

She LOVED this present and was so happy after she opened it. It was a turtle you can sit on a bounce.

She did love her cake!

After her bath playing with all her new toys.

VALENTINES DAY

I had to work all day on Monday, and then Monday night we had to go to a viewing for someone in my mom's family that had passed. So we celebrated on Sunday and Tuesday. My mom always cooks her family a vaentines dinner the sunday before Valentines. She is so thoughtful and so giving. It was a great dinner with lots of yummy food, presents, and family fun! Then on Tuesday we celebrated our Valentines. Clay gave the girls and I our gifts that morning and then that night I made our families Valentines dinner. It was a great day!

These are my yummy cute Valentine cupcakes I made.

Mom loves my girls so much, and they love her very much as well!

Clay's presents to the girls. He got them Valentine puzzles and each a movie.

Not a great picture but I could never get a good on of both of them in their Valentine shirts. Also they had just had their chocolate hearts from grandma so their faces are dirty haha oh well :)

Birthday Party Fun!!

Kaitlyn's birthday party was a big sucess. It was so much fun getting everything ready and having everyone over. Thank you to all our family that took time from working and their busy lives to come to Kaitlyn's party.

Owl Cake Pops, my awesome sister Shanon helped my make these. They turned out pretty cute I think.

Birthday girl all clean and bathed.

Happy Birthday Kaitlyn

Today my sweet baby turns one, wow she has grown so much! This past year has been full of lots of smiles, kisses, hugs, snuggles, crying, boo boos, grumpiness, but mostly lots of fun! Kaitlyn has developed such a cute personalily, yes she is quite the tease. She loves to joke around and laugh. She is such a sweetheart and is full of love.

Kaitlyn,
               Today you turned one, your mom and dad are so proud of you! We love you so much and are so blessed that you can be a part of our family. Since your were born our family has been complete, it has always felt like you blonged here with us in our family. Everyday we thank Heavely Father for you and for sending you to our family. It has felt like you have been in our family forever, although it has only been a year. You are such a smart girl and have learned so much in the past year. We can't wait to see what this next year will bring.
Here are Kaitlyn's pictures over the past year. (It was really hard to pick)



Kaitlyn one day old. Look at all that hair.



One Month, isn't this picture precious!

Two months old, blessing day. This was a great day!

Three Months, daddy loves his little one!

Four Months, haha I didn't take very many pictues this month so I could find one of her smiling.
 But this picture makes me laugh.

Five Months, her first popcicle she LOVED it!

Six Months, she was crawling by now.

Eight Months, Love that face. (Sorry they are out of order)

Seven Months, my beautiful baby!

Nine Months, Just waking up face.

Ten Months, Christmas Morning.

Eleven Months, this is one of my favorites.

Twelve Months, She is such a goof ball.

Kaitlyn, you are VERY loved!

Maleah's Candy Party

Maleah's birthday party was on Saturday, it was such a fun day! Thank you to all the people who helped me get ready for it and for everyone who drove a long way to get here! Maleah was such a cutie, mostly she loved playing with her cousins. Here are the pictures of that day, her party was a candy party becuase she LOVES candy.



This was actually on Wed, her actual birthday. I though she should at least get one present on her real birthday.



Everytime we would go the store and pass the bike isle, Mea would say Mommy I want a bycycle. Without even know this Marcus and Shylo got her a tricycle. She LOVES it, they made her one very happy girl.

This was Mea's big present from us, she loves to play with her kitchen. It really will entertaine her forever. Kaitlyn likes it too. We decided to get a bigger one so she can play with it once she is older as well. For now she has to stand on a stool to reach the microwave, but she doesn't care.