Can I Feed Him?

Mersadie has been wanting to help out more and more these days instead of just terrorize her little bro...so yesterday she kept wanting to feed him and at lunchtime I decided to put aside all my control-freakness and let her feed him his pears...

The first pic is just a fun random picture that I took of the boy yesterday and I fell in love with it, so I had to share it with you!

Braden has had his squash and is ready to bring on the pears.

Sadie getting a spoonful for Braden.

Yum! She actually didn't do too bad - just one little spill on the floor. She just squealed and squealed with excitement the entire time!

More Birthday Pictures!

At Sadie's birthday party, we rented a bounce house. What better way to keep a bunch of 3 year olds entertained than have pizza, cupcakes and a bounce house. The bounce house arrived early and was in our backyard until evening, so Sadie got a lot of time to enjoy it by herself (and with Mimi, Auntie Reece and me). LOVE her hair in the picture below!

She looks like she's dancing!

Auntie Reece and Sadie

This girl could have jumped all day long!

Sadie even persuaded Mimi to get in with her!

While we were singing "Happy Birthday" to Sadie, she blew out one of her candles...

...and I think she was afraid she was going to get in trouble.

When we were done singing, she blew out the other two candles.

A lady at church brought over a pinata for the party!! The kids loved it!

Little Joe - Sadie's future husband!

It took some adult strength, but in the end the pinata broke open and the candy rush was on.

All of the kiddos at the party (17 of them)...We had A LOT of fun!

Sadie's Birthday Party Preparations!

A couple of weekends ago we had a birthday party for Sadie. Here are some of the pictures of the preparations for the party. It was a Mickey and Friends theme...

More pictures of the actual party will follow this post shortly. I PROMISE!! For now enjoy!

This is the invitation we sent out to all her little friends. I can't even tell you how hard I had to work to get this picture of Sadie. I felt like I should have paid myself for that photo shoot. Let me just say my blood pressure was sky high by the time I was finished and I had to shower afterwards from sweating so much because of how frustrated I was. Good thing you can't see the photographer on the other side of the camera when pictures are taken. All you see is the beautiful finished product.

I started realizing just how expensive a little birthday party can get with bounce house rental, cupcakes, party favors.... So, I got this bright idea after much research on the internet and decided to make caramel/chocolate apples to look like Mickey and Minnie Mouse to give to the kids as a "goody bag". Well, let me just say THANK THE LORD FOR MIMI!!! My mom was such a big help with this project. About halfway through I was thinking it would have been better to just spend the money on goody bags, but after they were done, I was so glad we did this!

Step 2 of the Mickey Mouse apples done!!!

Step 3 of Mouse apples...YUMMY!!! Aren't they cute? And, no it was not my original idea. I saw this on the internet. Disneyland makes them - and waaaaay cuter by the way. But for a homemade job, I was pretty proud of these babies.

Step 4 - and DONE!!! Look at those cute things!

Here are our homemade cupcakes. They looked good, but unfortunately tasted awful. Good thing we were serving little kids who did not care one bit.

And the party tables...

Mersadie is 3!!!

My baby turned 3 today!! So hard to believe.

Newborn

One Year

2 Years

3 Years!!!

Braden's First Tooth!

Braden's first (and second) tooth made their appearance on Monday!! He's such a happy little fella and his teeth haven't seemed to bother him a bit. We have just had a lot of extra drool to go along with all the spit-up!