Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Ben & Maddie's Birthday Party

A couple of days before their party Madelyn wanted to spend some of her birthday money on some clothes. Here are the dresses that she picked out. Ben got a cute summer outfit too. (But girl clothes are so much more fun).....Benjamin wanting to go outside to help the guys grill. They had the front of the garage rocking the 'man cave' with the grill, smoker, chairs & of course a mini-beer keg......
Ben saying "It's my party I will cry if you hold me" but he said that to everyone. He wasn't having what we would call a 'good' day his party day......
The Princess Maddie opening her presents....
Brian trying to help Ben open his.....
Maddie with their cake....Happy Birthday To You.....
Ben trying to blow out his candle....I did teach him to blow for the last week but of course all he wanted was to lick the candle....
And throw the cake on the floor.....yes that is really what he did....and yes of course I said don't clean it up yet I need my camera....(but we didn't get any cake photos of ben since he didn't want his cake).....
The kids birthday cake...we also had lots of cupcakes...

Okay for those I haven't talk to lately......Ben is Brendan all over again. He is in the cabinets, he climbing out of his high chair, climbing up the stairs, trying to fall down the stairs, climbing on the couch...just all out trouble. So we are ready to pass the trouble around....who would like him shipped to them first?
Just kidding, we love our little trouble maker. (and yes Miss Maddie has given him that nick-name)

Saturday, April 03, 2010

Easter...Almost

I finally have my photo viewing software on my laptop so hopefully I can keep a better update on this blog.

Getting ready for Easter around here. Our first event was the Marshmallow Drop at the park down the street on Friday. Here are some photos from this event:
The helicopter dropping the marshmallows from the sky.....
Here are the kids (with Brendan's girl-friend who was with us for the day) with their marshmallows in their nets......
After all fun we tried to go to the zoo but it was CRAZY busy so we went to our snow-hill park instead for a picnic instead. Here is crazy Benny on the swing...

On the slide....(he makes that scrunched up nose face all the time)
See nose note again....
On Saturday morning we had Breakfast with the Bunny. Here are the kids looking cute. (Nose yet again).....
My Maddie Princess....
My good-looking Big D....(so handsome)...
All the kids, with no one crying, sitting with the Easter Bunny....
After dinner it was time to dye the easter eggs to leave for the Easter Bunny to hide.....
Tomorrow is the big Easter Day...
Here comes Peter Cotton-tail,

Hopping down the Bunny trail,

Hipp-a-dee Hopp-a-dee,

Easter on its way!

Happy Easter Everyone!!!!