Celeste's Wedding Shower

Celeste came in town for her wedding shower around about in January. I was helping to host and Emma came along to help as well! We played a game where you have to break up into teams and make a wedding gown out of toilet paper and one of the girls on the team gets to be the model and compete against the others for the most fashionable wedding gown! Of course Emma volunteered to model.

Celeste and Emma in the winning wedding gown and bouquet.

Ok, not sure why I can't get this one to turn. Amateur blogging here.

Allie thought Emma was extremely entertaining! She was singing her a song about the color yellow that she learned in school. There are many color songs but the yellow one is so sunny and bright... I think Allie had to write it down. :-)

Excited about the prize!

We had a great time and can't (couldn't) wait for the wedding in March - In California and we get to go to Disney Land too!

Emma's end of school pool party

Mrs. Diekroeger hosted the end of school pool party in her backyard with a beautiful pool and lots of fun for the kids! Emma found it a little chilly but had a great time other than the goggles issue. Turns out I forgot the big nose-covering goggles that she wanted so it was a little hard to get over that, but otherwise we had a super time!

Here are the wrong goggles that I brought. She tried them for a while but they are just not what works.
Then we found out that one of her friends, Lilly, had some just like hers that she wanted (with the nose), so we got to borrow those for a little while.

We were really happy while we had those goggles.

Here's Emma going into the deep end.
Emily & Emma enjoyed the popsicles!
Mrs.Diekroeger also passed out the Memory books for the year. I teared up on the first page, but later was able to look at it over Emma's shoulder. It is absolutely priceless!
Aren't they super adorable? What a cute class of pre-schoolers!
We had a great year!!

Sammy's 4th Birthday!

Sammy's actual birthday was on May 5th. We had a few neighbors over to play slip & slide to celebrate. Everyone had a great time and got really tired! The slip & slide was pretty fun too! Daddy came by to set it up and get it started!

After all the fun slipping & sliding, the kids enjoyed the snacks and we tried out the new Giant cheetoes balls! They are GIGANTIC! See. & Yummy too!

Then we brought out the bubble machine and bubbles were everywhere.
Cupcake time!

Emma the red nosed reindeer was there!

Rachael the blue nosed reindeer too!

Kendall (Emma's first friend). Gosh he's growing up!

Baby Jack. He's getting big too! :-)

Sammy's Birthday Party @ Rocket Town

For weeks, we have been talking about what Sammy wanted to do for his 4th birthday. He kept saying he wanted a Thomas party again (which he had last year) and sometimes would say he wanted Lightening McQueen. Well, we decided to have his party at our church where they have a big play structure called Rocket Town. So we just went ahead and included all of them for the theme. I took a cute picture of Sammy with Thomas, McQueen AND Rocket and made the invitations up. Now what to put on the cake! It was a bit of a persuasion to get him away from the big blue Thomas cake, but he was happy with his selection!

Sammy mostly played in the ball pit with his friends Preston & Caroline. They got really crazy!!
Cake time! Lightening McQueen and a yummy white cake. Just what Sammy ordered!
The pinata was a fun time and it really lasted forever! Everyone got to hit at it and then Sammy got even more time at the end.
Preston working on the pinata!
Then daddy finally had to break it open for the candy to come out! That was fun!
After a fun party and opening a few great presents, Sammy was a happy 4 year old boy! I must mention that he decided that night to not wear pull-ups to bed anymore! Yippee! He really is a BIG BOY now! We are so proud of him!