Happy Birthday Vivian

On June 18 we celebrated our sweet baby girl's 2nd b-day! Her birth was one I will never forget and neither will my best friend who was with me or my husband who was NOT!

Here is my sweet princess in the hospital

My princess in her tutu & birthday shirt. The shirt says "I'm 2!"

We had everyone over for a cook out and this is Viv guarding her food.

Me and my birthday girl

This was the hit of the party. I found this at a used kids' clothing and toy story for $15. It's a baby changing, feeding, washing station. And she loves it!

Digging in!

Happy Birthday Vivian!  May you always remember that God made you exactly the way He planned.  You are beautiful in His eyes and He loves you no matter what. And all of those apply to me too.  Your sweet spirit and love for others shows and your feisty nature makes you such a character.  We love you Princess!

Helping Mommy

I want to post this so I never forget this age. There are times in your children's lives that you think, "I LOVE this age! I want them to stay this way!"  Viv was at that age in this picture.  She loves her mommy and wants to help me any time she can.  So any time I sweep the kitchen this is what she does.

Thanks for the help Chick!  I love you!

Movie time gone WRONG

Remember how I said some times when it's cold outside all you can do it snuggle and watch movies? Well make sure you are careful because if not your movie time could turn into this.

This Spencer in the ER. He thought it would be a great idea to put a popcorn kernel up his nose. I couldn't get it out so off to the ER we went!

They continued their cartoon watching while we were there.

Viv was less than impressed

But Dalton had fun.

All in all we had a good ER visit.  It was about an hr and $300 later! NO MORE popcorn for Spencer. Or at least not without supervision. I love that kid but I knew he would be the one to get us to the ER first.

Inside Fun

Life in our house with 3 kids is RARELY boring. Most of the time if the weather is nice I will send the kids outside to play but some times just you can't.

Or at least not for long periods of time.

I'm not really a crafty mom at least not with the kids.  I find it tiring and frustrating.  It takes me 20 min to get the craft or project ready and in 30 sec they are tired of it. So I try to come up with other things for them to do other than have movie time!

Of course we do send them out to play but with the cold temps that has to be limited.

And for baby girls the snow comes in to you. Although she was NOT fan!

You can also pretend to be a Magician.

Or go to the mall and play on the play area.

you could form a band. With 3 big base drums.

Or just have a wrestling match.

Or watch mommy cook! (doesn't happen often so they'd better take a picture)

All else fails send them outside and lock the door. Just kidding! I wouldn't lock them out (at least not in the cold!)