just remembering...

when these 3 kids

 

looked like this...

 

celebrating sam

...fancy nancy style

the girls and i had been planning a birthday party for sam all week, however this morning they decided it should have a theme.  about 2 weeks ago lia checked out several fancy nancy books from the library and thought it would be fun for us to all dress up like her family did in one of the books...so she laid out clothes for everyone.  we just never got around to actually putting on the clothes--til tonight!

the girls had the best time decorating for the party!  in fact, they choose to decorate instead of help cook supper tonight--which is pretty unusual.

they went with a fall theme for the table decorations--it was so pretty.  

menu for tonight:

enchiladas (sam's favorite)

green beans

homeade salsa

birthday cake and ice cream

one can never have too many sprinkles

when daddy took his suit off kye had to take something off too

singing happy birthday

lia's fancy nancy outfit minus some accessories

the 34 year old

our fancy family

he is still the light of my life!

lions and tigers and bears

we met my sister and her 3 kids at 

the quad city zoo last friday.   

we arrived just before lunch and 

after a yummy picnic 

we headed out to enjoy the animals!

the above pic reminds me of a photo 

i took of the girls at the 

st louis zoo before kye was born

i

i sure love those kids

enjoying the huge elephant with a star on it's hinder

these goats were crazy!

they were all about getting food

i think kye just got a smooch

kye. lia. ruthie. sofie

can't believe how big this 

little lady is getting

lia doing what she does best--

being a helper

we had the best time watching

this guy eat--

a couple of group photos in

these awesome butterfly chairs

check out kye and simon

the girls

and--the boys

they just spotted an airplane fly over

sofie and kye

what a fun, fun, fun day!!!

coffee filter flowers

yesterday we started this fun project.  

it's completely easy, but does take a little bit of time to finish due to drying times

but, we finished this afternoon

what a blast!

here's the finished project

sofie created this vase full of beautiful flowers

here's lia being her usual life of the party self

and here's our detailed organizer sofie

and of course, our very busy kye