In April we celebrated James' birthday. We kept it low-key and had sweet pork salads, red punch (courtesy of the girls), and molten lava cake. I think I'm liking simple cakes. Hah! :) Happy birthday to the best Dad and hubbie ever! The kids had to make it special by making their own decorations and of course crowning him with a birthday crown. He's so nice to wear it for them. <3
Some kids are blackThe day after Little A's birthday is CJ's birthday in June. He turned 3! I always want to have a separate celebration for them so they feel like they have their own day. Would have been so much easier to celebrate together. :)
He got a colorful cake and presents wrapped in spider-man, so he was content!
Favorite color: black (still trying to figure this one out)
Favorite food: pizza and grapes
Favorite dessert: cake & cupcakes
Favorite thing to do: watch shows and play on Mommy's iPad.
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| Playing a little catch up. This is back from June of last year! Little A turned the big 6!! She had a great birthday with family coming over to help celebrate. Her favorite gifts, a snow cone machine and a cruiser bike. Lucky! |
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| A little about her. Favorite color: silver, favorite food: BBQ meatballs, favorite dessert: eclair cake, favorite thing at school: match. She is such a thoughtful little girl and loves to help with any need of her little sister. |
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| Another celebration and cake at her Grandma and Grandpa McMullin's house. |
Wow, I've been a little MIA lately! Let's just say being sick is the pits and being on the computer is the last thing I've wanted to do. I am going to play a little catch-up with the main things that have gone on since Halloween for posterity. :)M&M had a big birthday and turned 8 back in November. Her birthday is the week of Thanksgiving so we opted to have a fun birthday party with friends a couple weeks before so everyone was sure to come. She came up with most of the idea for her birthday so we went with it.
Each year we are lucky enough to head down to Snowbird, Utah for the whole Thanksgiving week. So fun to relax, swim, eat, snowboard (when you aren't pregnant), visit with friends and fam, eat, play in the snow or sled, and eat some more! I always head into SLC in the wee hours of the morning to hit the black Friday shopping too. So fun! I hardly took any pictures, but here are a few.
Celebrating Little A and CJ's birthday again at our monthly birthday party with James' family. The kids loved the cakes made for them by their Aunt Kara. CJ was funny and covered his eyes when we all sang him happy birthday. He's starting to show little signs of shyness when the attention is on him and thinks he can make it all better by covering his eyes. Silly boy! :)
The beginning of June is busy with 2 birthday's within a day of each other. Celebrations started at the BBQ over Memorial Day weekend. CJ loved his birthday cake with a car on it. I enlisted James to make his race car from this tutorial. We make a good team :) CJ decided the whole birthday thing is pretty fun. He loved opening presents and blowing out the candles on his cake. We were lacking toy cars at our house so he got loaded up! All kinds of cars. Thanks fam! He loves them all. The candle for his cake was a sparkler. He was all excited to blow it out. We lit it, and then he got scared and started backing away from it. Too funny!
We saved his cake for his actual birthday and sang to him again. Grandma and Grandpa joined us for dinner, cake and presents.
Favorite food: watermelon
Favorite candy: all candy
Favorite birthday present: soccer flip flops
Happy birthday CJ!
Beginning of June Little A had her 5th birthday. First the birthday celebrations started during Memorial Day weekend with a combined party for Izzie, CJ and Little A. We had a yummy BBQ at at her Uncle Eric and Aunt Jamie's house which included grilled jumbo prawns, grilled veggies, grilled pineapple, grilled salmon and of course cake and lemon cupcakes for dessert. Nana, Papa, Eric, Jamie, Aimee, Izzie, Elliott, Nate, and Jamie were all there to celebrate!
Turning 5 in our house is a big deal so she was able to have her first "friend" party! She was SO excited for it. She chose to have her party at Young Chef Academy where they all learned how to measure things and make and decorate their own cupcakes.
Favorite birthday present: Princess beads to make her own necklaces (thanks Grandma!)
Favorite color: pink
Favorite food: pizza
Favorite restaurant: McDonald's
What she wants to be when she grows up: artist
Birthday breakfast: cinnamon rolls with scrambled eggs & orange juice
Birthday dinner: pizza & root beer
Little A is our spunky little girl who is SO excited to start Kindergarten in the fall. She adores her older sister and is enjoying having someone to play with for the summer. She loves to cuddle, organize, help with things around the house and bake. Happy birthday Little A!
So it's been a few weeks since my birthday but I have to go back and actually post about it. All in all it was a chill day. The kids were EXTRA good since it was my special day so that made for a great day! We went to On the Border that just opened close by with James' parents for dinner, then headed to a park with friends to have cake & ice cream. James had pre-arranged with Holly (my cake decorating partner) to make a fabulous cake for the special day. Fabulous it was! I was surprised with this sweet cake & cupcakes!
I don't have a picture of it, but this was me opening the card for it. The TV is now hanging right where that picture is in the background (above our phone). I really dislike pictures of myself but figured I better document what a 31 year old looks like :) Thanks to all my friends and family who made it a special day!
Monday James turned 30! Happy Birthday to my hubbie! He did a surprise for me for my birthday so I had to get him back. Fun was had at the Reel theatre with pizza & scrumptious cake followed by a movie (Monsters vs Aliens). I was so happy it all turned out, the surprise wasn’t spoiled, and all who came had a great time. Thanks friends & family for helping, coming and making it a great evening!
Oh and I was even able to make this cake without James knowing it was for him! I sure know how to tell a great fib! There was even a little mishap with getting the cake to the theatre. My sis-in-law (thanks Jamie) came and picked up the cake and some other stuff to set-up before we arrived. I guess the cake did a little slipping action in the car, but you can't even tell. Nice work! :) I'm also lame and took horrible pictures! No more even worthy to stick on the blog. I'm hoping to view the video of the evening and may post some of it later!
Happy Birthday hun! :)
In honor of my bro's birthday, I made him some yummy cupcakes to celebrate! Chocolate chip cookie dough cupcakes to be exact and they were good! I ended up just making the cookie dough (with some oatmeal) instead of buying store-bought due to Little A's allergy. Happy birthday!
Well you all know I turned the lucky 3...0..(it's lucky, right? Well it's lucky now since I feel OLD and I need to feel something else besides the "O" word!) Anyway, I didn't really post anything on my birthday so I thought I would. My parents were in town the Saturday before my lucky day so we went to lunch with them, my bro's & sis-n-law. We went to the RAM and that place is yummy! I had a strawberry and orange, grilled salmon salad. They also brought out a huge piece of mud pie for me. I think it was bigger than my head! 
Thanks Mom & Dad for the great meal and the rest of the fam for good company and some awesome gifts!!
So on the big lucky day the girls came and gave me some cards they had made while I was still in bed. They of course were adorable! James had to go to work, so the rest of the day was a pretty normal day. I did play the "it's my birthday" card to the girls so they would listen EXTRA good & make me really happy. I think that worked only once.
James got Applebees to go so I didn't have to cook. Yeah, for that one! Earlier in the week James had told me that some of the fam would be coming over for cake/ice cream that night so I thought that would be fun. M&M slipped up earlier in the day of who was coming so I was getting a little suspicious. I had been feeding CJ after dinner and James was outside with the girls and I heard his parents arrive. I figured I should finish up and head outside and when I did there were a TON of people in the backyard!! James had called/emailed a whole heard of family and friends to come over for cake & ice cream. I was definitely surprised by all who was there. Thanks everyone for coming & celebrating my lucky day with me!! Thanks James for all the work you put into it! One bummer though...we took a lot of pictures and found out later that all of them were corrupt for some reason, except for a handful :( At least I got to eat 4 different kinds of cake!
