SIDNEY IS ONE!

Our baby girl turned ONE today!
How can it possibly be?
It seems like only yesterday we were holding her newbornness!!

We had a cupcake,candy & cookie buffet for her party today!
It was fun to do a PINK party & get everyone together!

Happy Birthday to Sidney!

Ooooh, this cake is so squishy.

SMOOSHY MESS! LOVE IT!!

NOT FUNNY!

I'm NOT FUNNY.
I brought this home from the rummage sale last weekend.
I thought it'd be useful considering all the water we've had lately.
But I guess it wasn't as funny as I thought.
darn.

Happy 5th Birthday Cayden!

THIS BOY....he changed our lives forever on May 2nd, 2006.

Awe...the sweet bliss of new parenthood.
When I sit & think about Cayden's fresh new body, snuggled up on me those first moments, I can just cry.
I thank God for this little miracle He gave us.

Here we are 5 years later....a preschool graduate, t-ball playing, friend loving, transfomer obsessed, caring, loving & sensitive little man.
YES, this mask he got for his birthday.
HE LOVES it.
He even got to wear it to Bismarck today.

For his birthday we took a trip to Bismarck and took him to Space Aliens for lunch! He LOVED it. He told me, "I love this mom! And my slushy is sooo good" :)
After lunch we took them to the zoo.
They again thought it was so much fun.
For one of his birthday presents we got him a Optimus Prime mask from transfomers.

Well this mask.....I guess it needed to come along today. It was his birthday, how could I say no. (it did NOT come into the stores, just the van & the zoo)

I think this little guy wanted to throw down!!

Preschool Graduation 2011

Here is our 2011 Preschool Graduate! The program said they will be the class of 2024....wow, it's hard to believe.

He was so excited. He told me "mom, take alot of pictures of me like everyone else is doing" I think I have close to 100 pictures/videos from today! I'm so proud of our little man.

He was cheesed when he walked in!

Prestyn missed his nap & fell asleep on Nana & Beau mid-way through.

The Sidster was having fun flirting with her buddy Brady!

Cayden did such a wonderful job during the program.
We are so proud of his growth this past year.
He's really looking forward to kindergarten in the fall.
I think he'll do great.

Talk about looking forward 13 years, they handed out "diplomas" and everything. So cute!!

Besties!

I watched Kael & Nora the other day while their beautiful mama had a TV interview for the Legs for Lorisa bracelets my sister in law Heather is making.
The boys were SOOO excited to have Kael here.
Sidney & Nora are getting to such a fun age. They get so excited to see each other. Nora always tries kissing Sidney & Sidney is always either a)pulling Nora's hair/hairclip/flower etc (she's jealous) b) crawling/climbing on top of Nora.
They LOVE Kael.

Watching intently on what Kael is up to.

Sidney going for Nora's hair.

Aren't they just the cutest!?!? I love these 2 girls.

Playing together!

PTO Carnival

Heather invited us to go to the PTO carnival tonight. Justyn is on nights & we wanted to get out of the house, so we said YES!
We got there & bought our tickets & went right to playing games.

Cayden really wanted to do the "cake" walk. It was a dud & he said "lets not do that again"

They decided face painting looked like fun. Prestyn got a little nervous when he sat down & with the first touch of the brush. But he did good. He got a star.

Cheesy.

Cayden got a basketball.

I asked if they were having fun & they said "YEAH"!! We were waiting in line to get balloons. I had 2 tickets left & told them they could each get one (thought they were 1 ticket/balloon) We got up there & they were 2 tickets for 1 balloon, so they picked a color out & we got it. The lady asked if we wanted another one & I said we were out of tickets, but thanks. And this litlte 7/8 year old boy comes up & hands us 2 of his tickets and says he wants them to get another balloon.
Talk about melt my heart. I told him it was okay, we didn't need it & he should use it for himself. but he just shook his head & insisted. I thanked him & the boys were cheesed & thanked him too!

The wall came down

When I saw Justyn come in with a sledge hammer I knew he meant business.
He tore out one of the spindled divider walls in the basement.
We had plans to re-finish the basement at some point & add another room, just hadn't planned on starting this soon.
The water just pushed our plans up a bit.
I'm actually a little excited to see it all transform & take shape

(maybe it's having the Sidster in our room or the boys sharing a room, but I"m excited)

As you can see, the panelling NEEDS to go.

We had some joyful little helpers. (he's totally my son)

And this is what happens when you have your almost 5 year old take a picture...not bad....

um...okay...

and a self portrait, see I told you he was my son.

and a close up of the support beam...perfect...in case we forget what it looks like?

and the results of the action.