The real birthday!

March 6, 2001... one of the best days in my life... cannot believe Miss M is already 7.

Her morning started with one present! and she wanted blueberry muffins for breakfast... so muffins it was!

the one present.. a new high school musical calendar!

Such a sweet girl.. we were taking pictures of her and she wanted one with her sisters! we are so lucky to have 3 little girls who love each other so much!

The day continued with a trip to Miss M's classroom with 26 High School Musical cupcakes. The class sang happy birthday and are such good kids... the rul ein the classroom is no one can have a bit eof their cupcake until the birthday girl takes her bite! We went straight to her end of the season soccer party and had her birthday dinner there. Came home to yet more cake! This one her sister made for her... it was sweet and of course more presents! What a day!

Miss M at school enjoying goodies with all of her friends and her teacher!

Miss A making a cake for Miss M... can you say 3 cans of sprinkles??

PRESENTS!

With 26 kids that ment alot of gifts so we decided to wait until we got home and could relax a little bit (thank you margarita king Michael!).... Miss M had so many wonderful presents.. she loved every single one of them... Here are some highlights of favorites!

Miss M and her buddy Adam with the Sharpay doll and Pink Golf Cart!

A HIT! The Hannah Montana Doll and Stage.. she actually sings! A favorite! Thanks Mum and Pa!

Hannah flip flops!

A Hannah Montana purse... do you guys see a trend forming? :-)

A Polly Pocket Pet Mobile! We love it!

A scrapbooking kit to remember all these fun moments!

There were so many more gifts! And Miss M loved all of them... her Barbie head, the barbie dolls, pet shops, books, games, arts and crafts! You were all so generous! Thank you!

First things First!

Miss M is 7!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We can hardly believe it and we had quite the celebration! 26 (yes, I said 26) of Miss M's friends joined us for a morning of bowling and pizza! We started the planning thinking we would need 2, maybe 3 lanes and ended up with 5 very full lanes! But, it was a blast.. and to make it even more fun they did cosmic bowling with the lazers, lights, and loud music! My dad was thrilled!:-)

We had such a great time and want to thank Mum, Pa and Andrea for coming out and joining us! They were such a big help with the party and Little One.

Here are some highlights from the party:

A random thought...

"We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day." ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce


Cool quote... read into it what you will...

Our other birthday gal!

And yes, in addition to celebrating Little One turning 1, we got to celebrate Nana turning 92! She had all 50 people singing Happy Birthday and a yummy cookies and cream Cold Stone Creamery cake. I think she had a great night. The kids did awesome. All 26 kids sat on the stairs and sang to her... It was adorable and of course Nana cried... but at 92 I think she is allowed! :-)

Time for a party!

So, we made it.... one year has gone by with Little One... It has been a year full of ups and downs. As most of you know Little One's life did not start out exactly perfect with a trip back to the hospital at 5 days old with RSV. She came through that though and has been a joy! Such a good natured, happy, easy baby! We decided to throw a party for our friends and family and we were so happy that so many could join us. It was a fun night.... Great friends, great times, great food and great wine! :-) The kids had a blast in the backyard with the trampoline, bacci ball court and soccer balls and goal... We turned our garage into a craft wonderland and thanks to my sister (who has to be the most patient woman in the world) put on her teacher hat on her day off and ran the room. The kids had tons of things to work on... the girls had wooden butterflies and the boys had wooden airplanes that they could paint... and boy did they paint! :-)

We also had foam placemats and foam door handle holders that could be decorated with a variety of different foam stickers... The garage is still in craft (AKA disaster) mode but the kids had a blast and that was what was important!

Little One did great... We had about 50 people here and it was alot to take in... but she handled it like the star that she is. The highlight was ofcourse her cake... She had so much fun. She started out looking at it and touching it with her fingers and then it became like a pie eating contest with her entire face in her cake... It was great. Thanks Daddy for taking her upstairs and giving her a very good bath!

Never trust silence

Especially when your child has a friend over... Here I thought I was getting so much done. Miss M was at school, Little One was sleeping and Miss A had a friend over to play. Little did I know that Little Ponies, Princess and Barbie dolls, and Little People had gotten boring and they moved over to the makeup Miss M got for Christmas. I had let Miss M keep this in her room because she knows when the time is to use it and to ask first... Well, it seems that it was not in her special hiding place and her sister and friend found it... and this is what came down the stairs....