The Princess Party!!!

Cherry wanted a "Princess Party" theme. So we played pin the crown on the Princess, Pass the glass slipper,

(Cherry almost won!) And a Princess dressup relay thing that we called "Princeses Lessons".

She got tons of presents!

You can see how excited she was-

And she had a Princess castle cake (please don't look at it too closely :) especially you, Paulette :) )


Cherry lead us in "Happy Birthday"

Getting ready....

Make a wish and blow out the candles!!

and again :)

We decorated pretty Princess hats! And we slowed down some of them long enough to snap a picture!
It was really a LOT of fun!! HAPPY 5th BIRTHDAY, CHARITY!!!!

The only time one of my kids has played with their stool!

Get it?!

What a Little Monkey!

saying HI! That's his new thing.

he loves playing with the stuff that we take away from him


Check out that tongue! I don't know if you can see it in this picture- but his tongue is like split in the middle on the end- it's really funny- and he always has his tongue out!! If you've ever seen Lukey- you've seen his tongue!

What an adorable little guy!

There's that tongue again- and something mommy usually takes away.

tickletickletickle!!! He's so fun to tickle.

That's my little boy!! What a handsome little devil :)

Mommy got a little camera happy- in case you were wondering :)

Bubba's a goof ball

He's such a fun little guy :) Always having fun :)

Spinny Dresses

The girls LOVE to get their nightgowns on (they call them their "spinny dresses") and dance and spin to the music- it's very cute. We did manage to get some really cute video clips of them dancing too :)

Iditarod Cheerleaders

Here's cute little Kelz holding her booties and waving.


"chout daddy- chout!!" Bubba telling daddy to watch out!


Cherry in her element- taking notes of what the dogs are doing so that she can go home and "be a sled dog"


MUSH!


Kelz and Cherry (in the middle) waiting for the next mushers


one of the contestants for the 2007 Iditarod


Bubba and Cherry drinking their hot chocolate


Kelz, Cherry, and Daddy watching for the next mushers, having a yummy Barbeque in March



Our friends live right by the trail that the Iditarod racers take on their way to the starting line so they invited us to come have a barbeque and cheer on the racers with them. This was yesterday, after the ceremonial start, but the re-start takes place today (March 4th). It was pretty neat to see. There were 83 contestants, we were a little late because we were at our Primary Activity, but we saw the last 30 or so. The Mushers throw little dog booties out to the kids. I guess the dogs go through about 8 sets of booties through the whole race, so we got some of them as souvenirs (they smell like doggie doo-doo though). This is something we'll probably never see again, so we were pretty excited about it. The coldest barbeque we've ever been too as well.
If you don't know what the Iditarod is- you should read about it- there are some really neat pictures on www.iditarod.com too if you are interested.

The Little Monkey and I were there too :)

Fireworks

In the evening we got to go and see the fireworks display downtown. It was probably 5 or 10 degrees below last night, so we were all bundled up (never had to do that before for fireworks :) ).

You can see the carnival they had going on too. I seriously think you'd have to be crazy to go on carnival rides in these temperatures. But whatever floats your boat I guess. It was fun to watch :)

This was the first fireworks display we've seen in almost a year and a half- absense makes the heart grow fonder.

Kelz Artwork

Here's a picture of Kelz "peepoh". She drew this particular picture for her favorite "Baby Hunter". I just thought it was cute- looks like an alien invasion or something- I LOVE how she draws people. Love the frame too :)

Kelz has been spending a lot of time drawing and learning how to write. She has been practicing her name-

Here is her first flower-

Here are some more of her people.

And here is her latest "Famwee Fwower". "Dat ih da mom, dat ih da dad, dat ih da baby, and dat ih da kid". She wanted me to take pictures of everything. Looks like I'm not the only one who's camera happy these days :) She's an arteest!

News

I can't believe it's already March!!
Good news- we DO have Cadbury Mini Eggs here!!! I was beginning to worry!! I was afraid I was going to have to have Easter without them- and boy would that be sad! It's all good though- we found some at Freddy's yesterday hopefully they will keep their shelves stocked.
Just joking.
So, the Little Monkey is still kind of sick- I think it's something else now, but he has been really grumpy- still cute, but a little grumpy. He finally got his teeth to come in. He looks so cute with them. AND he took his first official steps on Sunday, February 25th. He has yet to take any more, but at least he's tried. We don't really want him to walk yet anyway- he's got plenty of time :).
We're in the middle of planning Cherry's Princess Party- if anyone knows of any good "Princess Games" please share! We've got a few, but I would love more ideas to choose from.
Thanks! Love you all!!

Play dough!

I was just so amazed that Charity could do such a good job on her name with play dough- I had to show it off for her. She's so smart! (It's official, she really did take half of my brain out with her when she was born :) jk).

Kelly made a cute Biiiiiiiig "K" and a cute face to go with it :)

I made Brad's "B", but he added the little blobs on the inside- very creative I thought- looks like block letters or something :)

My kids are just so cute :)
We'll get Luke's "L" when he's big enough to realize that the play dough tastes yucky!!

Scenic Route

This one is cool- it's a view from the road across the "ocean inlet". Just looks like a wide open valley or something.

This just looked really cool- looks like an island on top of a huge thing of ice! That's about how high the water was in the summer I think.
This is just where the water coming out of the side of the mountain has frozen. I think it looks awesome.
This is where the inlet is- just not too much water left. We couldn't decide if the chunks out there are ice or just rocks, but there was very little water around.
I took this one because you can see the little canyon in the sand made by the water receeding I assume.

In case you were wondering- we were going to the store on Saturday, and the kids fell asleep, so we decided to just go for a little drive before, and we ended up on the Seward Highway (our favorite drive). We haven't been down there since it snowed (I don't think we would have wanted to with the ice, snow and avalanches), but it was really pretty still! Anyway- just wanted to share some of these. As usual the photographs just don't do this place justice!

Hot Mamma

This is her thing! She puts a baby in the stroller, packs a bag (or two), and in this case she threw on her sunglasses- probably because of all the sun we've been seeing lately (we really have, I'm not being sarcastic :)). Then she keeps the stroller with her everywhere she goes, up and down stairs even (and that's not easy), pushing it all through the house. She's such a little mommy.

What a doll!