Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Parker Turns 10!

It's crazy but true--Parker is now two digits!  No one is more surprised then me.  He's still just as silly as ever in his old age :)

He wanted a Sonic Party, so I found some ideas on the internet.  

This is his Halloween costume, just to refresh your memory...

 The "photo booth" was a success. 


 In the video game Sonic collects gold rings (power rings), so that shows up a bunch in my party planning.  I bought Funyuns because they looked like gold rings.  Also, we cut up carrot sticks to look like another character's tail. 
 
Sonic lives on a planet called Mobius, so we had "Mobius Water"

 Power ring cupcakes. 
 
 
 The guests popped balloons and collected more Power Rings that were hidden inside.  
Of course Greg set up an obstacle course in the basement, another big success. 
 
 And that was it.  A good party for a good 10-year-old! 
 
 But all that was before his actual birthday, so on his real birthday we celebrated too.  
Doughnuts in the morning.  He also requested pancakes and bacon. 
 Since his birthday is so close to Christmas we had lots of family to celebrate with. 
 Grandma Shauna put the frosting on the cupcakes. 
 
 Aunt Jill and Uncle Chris made yummy spaghetti sauce with amazing meatballs and sausage. 

 

Happy birthday Buddy!

Sunday, January 13, 2013

It's Girl Scout Cookie Time!

And this is Mimi's first year selling.  

Mimi:"I'll save you a little cookies so you can get some!"


While the scouts were talking about what to do with their cookie money, all the girls had dreams of Disney or the zoo.  Mimi said "we should give it to the poor"  That's my girl!  

Leave a comment here or email me if you would like to order some cookies 

(I won't post your comment if you leave personal information).

Enjoy!

Saturday, January 12, 2013

Yoda turns 3!


 He wanted pizza and cake and candy, so that's what we did.  He was SO happy!

 



Thursday, January 10, 2013

wrapping up Christmas

Before it's gets too far away, how about a Christmas Post?! 



 Before the Dickerson's came to town we celebrated with the Gibbys. 
 

More Christmas Cookies, please! 


 Parker had his 4th grade winter concert and it was awesome.  
 


 Yoda found lots of opportunities to chill with Grandad. 


 We even did a little sight seeing while we had our guests. 

 Helping with the pies 
 Little Drummer boy
 Christmas Eve Dinner.  
Me, Greg, Sonya, Mom, Dad, Jill, Chris, Andrew, Tina, Mimi, Parker (and a little bit of) Yoda. 
 Parker wanted to re-tell the Christmas story, it was very sweet. 
 Mimi acted out the story with our wooden nativity
 Tina dishing up the pies, yum! 
 Christmas morning (a.k.a.tornado)

 As per usual someone had to be sick, this time it was Parker. 

 Grandad got the kiddos a bow and a bunch of arrows. 

 Ticket to ride.  They played for HOURS! 
Parker and my mom played Scrabble over the wifi on the tablets that were present during Christmas. 

Hope you had a great holiday!