Birds the word!!

I have been horrible, horrible about putting up posts.  With facebook and text messages I hardly ever take pictures off my camera anymore.  Anyone you want to show pics you can just send them at the exact moment, even Bo will ask me to take a picture and send it to one of his friend’s moms haha!  So I apologize!  However, when it comes to posting lots of pictures this is still the easiest way to get them out to everyone.
Anyway, he wanted an Angry Birds party, his latest obsession.  I’ll be honest, I’d be a-ok if I never saw another angry bird for a very long time, but…he loves them so we just go with it.  He also wanted a bowling party.  I researched a little bit and found a great bowling alley not too far from us.  Before I agreed to it, I made a visit to see what it was like.  From my experience bowling alleys aren’t exactly the nicest, cleanest places!!  I was pleasantly surprised..very clean, kid friendly, all of the staff were fantastic and to top it off their party prices were great…if you haven’t thrown a kids birthday party lately you would be SHOCKED at what these things can cost and let’s face it…I don’t do little parties!!  Parties are my thing and Jarrod has just learned to let me do it.  I will say I didn’t do that much for this one at all.  It was fun the kids had a blast…they got to bowl for an hour, eat pizza and cake and then each got 8 tokens to go play games if they wanted afterwards.  Happy Birthday to our sweet, precious, full of life and love little boy!  We love you more than you will ever know!

I made the plates by printing off the Angry Bird and Pig faces and gluing them on to plain paper plates. 

When it was time to eat we put the food on clear plastic plates on top so the birds

would still show through, but the wouldn’t be eating on glue and cardstock :)

I made the goody bags the same way I did the plates (lots of cutting and gluing for this party! 

And yes, each child was sent home with

their very own slingshot…so far I still have all my friends!

 

 

 

 

 

 

The ramps were great for the kids!

Aiden, Bo, Baret, and Jacob..the four of them were on one lane it was hysterical!

Bo and Baret

 

 

 

This was guess the angry birds eggs…they were large

gumballs and the kid closest got to take them all home!

Believe it or not there were 71 in there!!

 

 

 

 

Bo was Jungle Manager last week so he got to bring the class mascot, M&M

home over the weekend.  Bo was so excited to take him to his party!

 

 

 

 

 

  

Best friends…Charlotte & Maggie

Sweet William

 

Who’s the bigger kid in this picture??
 

I wish you could have seen me trying to get daddy to leave!!  It took about 5 tries!

 

Elmo & Superman

We had such a great time this year for Halloween.  We had two classics…an Elmo and Superman!  They both were as precious as could be.  It was even  more fun for me because I made Charlotte’s costume, which was a lot of fun and it was a hit!  Last night we went to the preschool for Trunk or Treat and people we didn’t even know were stopping us to take Charlotte’s picture because they thought she was so cute!!  The kids had a blast.  We met some good friends and their little boy Aiden, who is also one of Bo’s best friends…these two love each other and had a BLAST!!!!  It’s so fun to see him really get into things especially when he’s with a friend.  And boy were they on a mission..there was no doubt why they were there..CANDY!!!!!!!!!!  Charlotte and I went a little slower, she would wave every time she went up to a car and as they handed her candy she’d say “ta tu”, gotta say it was pretty darn adorable!  Afterwards the boys went to the bounce houses and went crazy.  We wrapped things up there and then came back to the neighborhood where we all hit up the neighbors houses.  Again, boys were in full candy mode!  Charlotte loved it and tried keeping up with the older boys.  She walked the entire way!!!  There was no stopping this girl!  Later we all got home and the kids curled up with daddy to eat some candy and watch Charlie Brown.  We couldn’t have had a better night! 

Aiden, Bo, Charlotte, and Colin

 

 

The only picture we got of the boys…they were clearly there to get as much candy as possible…we couldn’t keep up!

 

 

 

Superman on the Super Slide!

 

Bo with a mouthful of candy!

“Daddy can you open more candy?”

 

  one worn out bunch!

Fall 2012

Wow…July…that was my last post!  There is no excuse and I’m so mad at myself because I want to use this blog to keep track of everything going on in our lives.  Needless to say life has been a little crazy the past few months.  Not to mention that the entire month of Sept and most of October someone, if not everyone at once, has been sick in our house.  And lucky us it always hit on the weekends.  Which sort of leads into this post. This past Saturday was declared  “family day…meaning just out little family of four”!  We had not had a fun, family weekend since honestly I don’t know when.  With only one weekend left in October I really wanted us to get to a pumpkin patch before the month was over.  We got up yesterday morning and headed to Jaemor Farms here in Georgia.  It’s only about 30 minutes from our house. It is the best place ever.  It was our first time to go, but it was highly recommended by a good friend of mine so we decided to check it out. 

We got there right at 10am when they opened, which was perfect because there weren’t many people, which meant not a lot of lines!  Bo saw the pumpkin train and headed straight to it…no surprise there!  I’m not sure if he was more impressed by the tractor pulling it or the actual train but he loved it.  Next he darted off to the apple cannon where he and daddy aimed at targets on an old school bus, he did pretty good I must say!  Then it was off to a big slide, watching them setting up the petting zoo, then into the corn maze!  Whew…the corn maze…very long, very confusing, but fun!!  We decided to let Bo lead us through so wherever he wanted to go we’d go.  At one point Jarrod and I thought we should go right and Bo wanted to go left so we decided to go mommy and daddy’s way and guess who ended up at a dead end!  Bo quickly said “See...you’re not listening to my directions.” It was priceless!

After the corn maze we headed to a hayride, last but not least a pony ride, and then finally some yummy bbq lunch!!!  Jaemor Farms also has a wonderful farmer’s market with a huge variety of fruits and vegetables and homemade goodies…oh my stars!!!  After lunch we knew we had to try the homemade strawberry ice cream,which was just amazing, and also a fried apple pie!  Diet went right out the window, but how often do we do these things??  Oh and on the way out we bought boiled peanuts and Jarrod had to have a loaf of the homemade cinnamon pecan bread OH MY STARS!!!!!!!!  That alone was worth the 30 minute drive!!!!!!! It was a great day that we desperately needed!!!  On another note…can you believe our baby girl is now 17 months?  Where is the time going??

 

 

 

 

  

 

   

 

 

 

 

        

   

 

 

 

On a completely different note…Charlotte HAS to keep up with the boys.  Saturday night we were at my uncle’s visiting with family and Charlotte saw the boys on the scooter…sure enough guess what she HAD to do!  She loved it!!  She is definitely going to be our dare devil…people were pushing her around on it and the faster they went the louder she squealed…Lord help us!