Happy Birthday to Jaron (W) - 3 years old!!!!

Thursday was Jaron's birthday - I can't believe my baby is already three! We had a King party for him tonight (Kenzie had a princess party, so Jaron needed a king party....makes sense right?). Jaron invited his friends to come over and help him celebrate. All of the boys got crowns, (although they were smaller than we anticipated) and all of the girls wore tiara's:

Jaron wanted a brown cake with blue frosting. I didn't have any "brown" cake mixes, so he chose the one with the sprinkles. I was able to make the blue frosting and look - candles!! He loved having everyone sing to him and even danced. He did a good job blowing out the candles (with a little help from his Mom).

Everyone loves presents!!! Thanks everyone for all the great stuff.

Cole and Gracie couldn't make it but brought this great doctor kit over early...so fun!

I found him here filling his shoes with dirt post party....

To explain the "W"....about a year ago Jaron started telling us that "W" was his favorite letter. He would say that things with words on them were "ABCDE's" instead of ABC's and always pick out the W. We were working with him on how to spell his name and he says it is spelled "JARONW" and only invited people to his party that had a W in their name - I wasn't invited by-the-way :) When he writes his name on something it is a giant W and then an O and an N. Pretty good for only being three :) So if you come to our house and see something marked with the initial W - don't be confused...that stands for Jaron!

Happy Birthday Sweet little Monkey!!!

New Addition to our family and the trip to the zoo....

This is Mosely - our new member of our family! He is a six month old Golden Retriever, Cocker Spaniel mix. He has a lot of energy and is going to be a big dog, and he loves to play fetch :)

Jack's second grade class went to the zoo this week no a field trip and I got to go with :) Here are some pictures of our adventures.

Easter and the Walk for Babies....

Easter was really great this year. We dyed eggs - kind of. Mom the control freak put the eggs in the color, the kids just told me what to do :) It was the only way to do it in a short time and keep everyone clean....

The Easter Bunny came and left us each a treat - and eggs all over the house.

All dressed up in our Easter clothes!

We got ready and went to church. Another mother-of-the-year moment - notice Jaron's feet. I didn't realize he didn't have any shoes on until we had taken five minutes of pictures. Awesome.

After church, we went down to continue the Easter Celebration at the Sampsons. Ian told the kids how/where the indoor egg hunt was going to happen. The Criddle's just got back from a cruise - so Addie's hair is all in braids

The hunt!

Last Saturday we participated in the March of Dimes Walk for Babies. My office raised over $10,000 this year, which was totally awesome. All of our kids were premature and have benefitted from research done by the March of Dimes. In typical Seattle Weather, it rained. But we had a good time anyway!

The Princess is FIVE!!!

The day she has been waiting for has finally come - Kenzie is five! To celebrate this grand occasion, we had a Tangled Princess Party. Invitations went out, and 8 beautiful Princesses joined us for the party.

We painted finger and toe nails (thanks DeAnn and Jeanette for all of the help!). We made tiara's and put on earrings and rings. Then, we were ready for the main event - watching Tangled.

After an hour of the movie, we stopped the show to open gifts and had cake. You will notice that Mom of the year forgot the candles, so Kenzie had to blow out a number 9 candle. Oh well, she had a good time!


Happy Birthday Mackenzie!!!