Monthly Archives: March 2011

An orange dinosaur party. With lip gloss.

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***LONG post. TONS of pictures***

I choose SUNNY St. George for the children’s parties. The weather has ALWAYS been perfect. ALL week long before her party (and even the night before!) I watched the weather report and was SO excited for the lovely weather we were going to have.

Her park party got rained out. I didn’t have a backup plan. I a little bit panicked/freaked out. My Mom let me take over her house and I called, e-mailed, facebooked, cleaned, decorated, and prayed that people would still be able to come (tons of cupcakes and candy that I needed help eating).

Lesson learned. ALWAYS have a backup plan!!! And NEVER trust the weather.

Kaylee was beyond ecstatic that Carter came to her party.

Decorations

Her dinosaur cupcakes.


I made a pin the plate on the Stegosaurus game. The winner got a chocolate bar.

Kaylee thought the game was pretty cool.

She was SO excited for piñata time and patiently sat and waited while her Daddy and Shan strung it up. I think all the kids were excited about the piñata. I mean who doesn’t love beating up something for candy?!


Kaylee got to hit “Sally the Triceratops” first.

Then she watched in excitement as the rest of the kids got a turn.

Corbin went at it like a pro, then kindly helped me help Regan who was mad that I took his Linus blanket so he could use both hands.

At this point I realized that I made this piñata WAY too strong. The thing is I ran out of masking tape. SO I used ducked tape (because we are a one car family and I was IN the zone and wanted it done NOW!). Ya. That would be lesson number TWO learned. Be patient and wait for Jon to bring me more tape when he gets done working.

But it’s o.k. Brianna is one super tough Chickie. She took “Sally” (with a little bit of Jon help) from this. To….

THIS!

And then THIS happened.

Sweet sugary goodness for all. Goodbye “Sally”! You did good.

This guy here. Ya. My AWESOME Dad. Well he let us hijack his birthday. Not just his birthday weekend (like last year). HIS birthday. He is just awesome like that.

So we sang to him too. Kaylee’s Papa is 50 years older than her. They have blown out their birthday candles together the last few years. It may be becoming a tradition….

I think the kids liked the dino cup cakes. They went FAST!

She got so excited about every one of her gifts.

She got lipgloss, nail polish, clothes, books, movies, a new dino, a ride on motorcycle, and money. She was VERY excited to, “…feed my pig bank with all my hundred dollars. It’s really starving.”

Thanks to everyone who came and helped us celebrate the fact that we managed to keep Kaylee alive another year. She is our first miracle and is SO worth celebrating.

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She’s 3 and a Kayleeism

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We had her PARTY on Saturday. Despite some hiccups it turned out great. I’ll post all about it later. I have LOTS of pictures to sift through.

It’s crazy to think my little baby is 3! That she went from this:

To this!

She is SUCH a great child. She is so different than I could have EVER imagined my little girl being. And you know, she is SO much more fun than I could have ever imagined because she is so different.

She LOVES:
anything ORANGE, dinosaurs (triceratops is her favorite), princess movies & stuff, nail polish, lip gloss, soccer, books, coloring, singing, dancing, going on walks, going anywhere, guitar hero, monkey ball, piano, motorcycles, and parenting herself (& others). ie:

I look over and see her lifting up the garbage can lid and say: Hey!

She then says: Hunny, get out of the garbage. Go to your room! (runs away crying)


Then she comes back after a few minutes and says: I so sorry. I needa leave the garbage alone.

Yup! She’s a phenomenon. She is curently on day 4 of wearing her new tutu I made for her. It’s staring to look kinda sad. She has slept in it a couple of nights so that doesn’t help. She got lots of new nail polish and has wanted new nails everyday since her party. She also picked out her first pair of flip flops last night and is in love with them. She says things like:

Thank you very much.
Listen to ME.
I so sorry.
Come on MAN. (in an exasperated tone)
O, my gosh!
Hunny (followed by any number of things.)

She’s still SO stubborn and feisty. She is also such a little Mama, and loving and kind. She is incredibly clumsy (like her Mama) and today you can count 3 different band-aid areas plus a new cheek bruise. We think she is wonderful and we really wouldn’t change a thing about her.

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what we’ve been up to lately

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(Regan’s second naptime in the “new” bed. The camera crapped out for his first nap so I used my cell. Those pictures are much worse quality.)

Regan: lost some more weight (just shy of a pound. boo!) – got the side of his crib changed up so it’s a toddler bed – saying lots of fun things (like “poop” when he needs a new diaper) – cutting new teeth without batting an eye – cuddly and cute as ever.

(Being super hero’s. Going to have to make her a cape I think. And a mask. Orange of course.)

(After I got done changing out the hardware on Regan’s bed and moving beds around Kaylee decided that she needed to fix her bed too. )

Kaylee: helping me do LOTS of stuff – hanging out with Carter – informing us that dogs (and ALL animals) are scary because they will EAT her (we’re working on that, but it’s nice to know why animals FREAK her out so much) – ridiculously excited about her “orange dinosaur happy birthday to me” party – feisty and sweet as ever.

This is their new room layout. It FEELS bigger this way. We love it. I moved my nursing chair into the guest room to be a reading chair. And the children’s little table into their room for reading and coloring. I also took off the turtle on Kaylee’s quilt and put ruffles on it. Regan will get the turtle on his future quilt. And since Regan is a mover and a shaker I rolled up a couple of blankets to act as a bolster to help keep him from falling out (he did not care for that experience. haha.) Keeps him in while he is sleeping, but is easy for him to climb over to get out of bed when he wakes up.

And this is Kaylee’s piñata for her party on Sat. When she saw the finished product (decorated it after she went to bed to avoid her “helping”) she said, “My eyes! It’s beautiful. Thank you SO much Mama. Let’s break it!”

Yup. TOTALLY worth the hours (really wasn’t bad. about 6ish hrs. over a few days.) I spent on this bad boy girl. She holds in her belly 2.5 pounds of sweet yummy sugary goodness.

Piñatas were always my favorite part of birthday parties growing up. So I like to have them for my children. Store bought ones look lots nicer, but I can’t bring myself to spend money on something that’s going to get beat and smashed.

This piñata was my most expensive one to make so far costing with candy a whopping $6. And that’s only because it NEEDED to be orange, and that’s only an easily found color in the fall. I ended up buying a ream of florescent orange office paper.

Usually it’s just the cost of candy (around $3-5 depending on what you buy). Much better than paying $12- 20 for an empty piñata and then still needing candy for it.

I did find triceratops (her favorite dino) piñatas online that I used as my inspiration. But to find an orange girly one. Well……… that’s a bit harder to find. All in all I am SUPER pleased with how crapstastic it turned out.

It’s SO ready to be beat with a giant stick!

***I sent e-vite’s to everyone that’s in the greater St. George area that has kiddos, but I don’t have everyone’s e-mail. So if you wanna come and beat up a piñata just let me know and I’ll send one to you with all the info.***

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