Bathroom Re-model, June 2011

We decided to do some bathroom updates this summer. You can read what we did on the pics above. Chris and my dad did such a good job and it looks great!! I'm very proud of how it turned out!

Picking Strawberries & Jam Making

Every year we take the kids up to Wawaka to LeCount's strawberry farm to pick strawberries. The kids have a great time and we get some pretty great berries. This year was especially fun since Colt got to really help. He was so excited everytime he found a berry, it was so funny!! That night, I made strawberry jam. It turned out so delicious, if I do say so myself! : )

TeeBall ans LOB Softball, May

We started baseball/softball season in May. This is Ella's first year for tee ball. She's on the team Pythons and she's doing a great job!! This is Grace's third year playing, so she is playing on an all girls softball team. She is on team Inferno. He hitting and catching are improving dramatically!

Been Away for a While...

Sheesh! This spring and summer has been SO busy!! I have been away from the blog for so long!! Hopefully, I will get some time to catch everyone up on what we've been doing : )

Disney on Ice

Every year we try to go to Disney on Ice when it comes to town. We didn't go last year because it was the same show we saw the year before, so we were excited to see that they brought a new show to our town this year! This year they out on the Princess Classics stories - a short synopsis of the stories that we all know and love: Aladdin, Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, and Mulan. Grace's Girl Scout troop got tickets for the girls, so all we had to pay for were tickets for Ella and me. We decided to make a girls' night out and went to Pizza Hut for dinner and then the show. We had such a great time! The only down side was the camera's battery ran down (I neglected to charge it before we left) right before Cinderella came on the ice. I did, however, get some really great pictures of the other princesses. This was by far the BEST one we've seen yet! Maybe next year, we'll get to take Daddy and Colt : )

Colt's Second Birthday

Colt got some really great gifts! Everyone was so thoughtful! The train was a really big hit with all the kids. I don't know if the girls thought it was theirs or Colt's but they have officially taken it over ; )

Colt's Party Decorations

On Sunday we had Colt's Second Birthday party. Of course, it was Spider Man : ) Many of the decorations were store-bought, but I decided to make a few:
On the treat bags, I hand made the little spider web tags. I found a Spider man movie font and typed the kids' names on white card stock and then drew webs around each name.

I didn't want to spend the extra money on a birthday banner, so I drew the same font as on the gift box tags on a larger piece of card stock and then did the webs around each letter. I then hand drew the Spider Man heads and threaded the letters and the heads together.

The cake was store bought. It had all the Spider Man characters on it.

We had a wonderful day with friends and family...we are truly blessed with wonderful people in our lives : )