Culinary experiment

So I make this with giant toothpicks (with pre-decorated ends) for the boys' birthday party. Once the kids realized it was okay to take apart they loved it :)

Organized sabers

A couple daddies tried to organize a shot during the light saber extravaganza at the birthday party. One little girl has her own ideas of how it should be done!

Pool party fun

Another picture from the boys' birthday party. Fun in the zebra pool!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Dad!!!

Birthday rewards...

For those of you who donated to my birthday spoiling fund, here are a couple of the things that I've gotten. The purse has silver studs on the strap too. It's huge compared to my last purse, but it's got major character :) The shirt is darker by a bit than shows in the picture, and has little rutchings at the bottom of the 3/4 sleeves and on the sides of the tummy. I also got a pair of jeans, leather gloves, and desperately needed tights. Thanks!

St. Louis #1

We took a trip and spent about five days in St. Louis. It was great fun and I would definitly go back. There is way too much to put into one post though, so we start with the zoo, which was Avery's birthday activity post-poned. Aric put up lots of St. Louis pictures on Flickr, click here.

Because of my personal preferences, we started the zoo with a lot of time in the reptile house which was awesome! Their bug building (including butterfly biodome) was really great too. One of the most awesome things they had in the kid's area was a clear tube slide that went through the river otter exhibit! Had a hard time pulling Avery away from that one... They got to pet guinea pigs and also play veterinarian again (like at the children's museum). We went to the zoo two days, since entry is free, and the kids loved it all.

On a side note, we visited an uncle's house yesterday near a lake and had a blast! Avery went out on his first paddle boat ride and went swimming -with inner tube- with all of his cousins. Curran got to go on a big trampoline for the first time; he had fun, but it took some getting used to the big bounces. I got to go diving and swimming for nearly an hour after Curran got too cold to swim with me, and it was soo peaceful! *happy sigh*

*HAPPY BIRTHDAY CURRAN*

So my littlest one is 1 year old today! I can't believe how fast the time has gone. It felt like Avery took forever to reach one year, now it feels like Curran took 3 months to reach the same age! Yep, I'm a gettin' old *wink*

Curran loved the plethora of punching balloons and whipped cream present at his little party; however, he wasn't sure what to do with the candle besides try to touch it. He had very much fun spooning his cream-covered brownie in to his mouth, then rubbing his hands in it, then rubbing his face and head. To say the least we had a very nice bath after dinner!

His royal highness chose to get up on this chair himself, and stayed there while he opened his gifts. The hat didn't stay on too long however... The last picture is him raiding his Kix-filled bubble gum machine. But fear not, we actually managed to fill him up enough that he stopped snacking by the end of the night.

It's been a beautiful year. And no, I'm not crying... *sniff*