Last Game and Out of Town Guests

I found this picture on my latest picture download - here is the picture of the cake my kids made me for my birthday - they kept saying there are so many candles on your cake!!
Elizabeth had her last t ball game a couple of weeks ago. She had the best coach, it was obvious he loved coaching and he was so patient. She had such a great time and learned a lot.

I told her I wanted her picture - I love her pose :)

Elizabeth did such a great job and really participated. We were very proud of her.

We had Tom's roommate from college ( he was also one of his groomsmen), Matt, come for a weekend visit along with his wife, Jessica, and his daughter, Anna. Anna wasn't feeling great for their visit so I didn't get too many pictures of her. She was adorable!

On Saturday we took them to the science museum.

Anna was busy taking care of the babies.

There's Matt, tricking the height machine.

It was a very hot day so we spent a little time out in the water spray area.

There's Matt and his wife, Jessica.

That's the best front shot I got of Anna - she's so cute!

Elizabeth hanging out on the tortoise - usually it's Ben I catch here.

We love this camera thing they have in the doctor area.

They changed some of the activities throughout the museum so the kids enjoyed trying them. This was a tornado simulation.

We got to stand inside a giant prism - it was so cool!!

The kids took turns on this spinning stand - they learned how to spin faster and slower by moving their mass around.

We spun this around fast to make the water curve up.

Practicing our hula hoop skills (of which I have none!)

We had a great time with Matt and his family - we are hoping we can do it again soon!

On Monday we had our old neighborhood playgroup at our house. I got out my camera to take pictures of the kids playing in a marching band. They were so funny! Each kid had an instrument and were marching around the house.

I forgot to post that I finished painting that wall - but there it is on the left. I finally finished!!

It was a great play date!

Science Museum

We have a great science museum near us that has recently been remodeled so we went for playgroup on Monday. My mother in law was nice enough to get us a family membership for Christmas so we could go whenever we want. Here the kids are going down a giant dinosaur slide.
All of us moms and kids eating lunch.

The kids spotted a TV! All action stopped for a while until we pulled them all away.

The giant tortoise in a cage. Ben loved climbing all over it (which I don't think he was supposed to do!)

Cooper was maneuvering over the balance beam.

My kids have always loved the grocery store section of the museum. The only problem was none of the kids were putting their food away so nothing was really on the shelves. Then you see all of us moms rushing around to clean up. I did make my kids put theirs away :).

The giant train track was a huge hit.

Ben and Josh were enjoying playing with each other.

Our friend Elliott who moved came back for this playgroup. We had fun seeing them again!

Last but not least, how many kids can fit in the dinosaur's footprint?

A lot I guess!

Fun Weekend

Since I haven't been posting too frequently I have a few random things to post. I saw how to make this wreath on a blog - check it out here if you are interested - and I thought it was so beautiful and I needed a Christmas wreath so I decided to try it. Just for information sake if you want to make it - I got all the ornaments at the Dollar Tree (5 for a 1$) and I did end up getting a pack of bigger ornaments (8 for $5) at Target because I wanted some different sizes, but in the end I don't think I needed them. I just need to do the ribbon at the top and I'm all done!

I thought the ornaments were really pretty at the dollar store!
We had playgroup yesterday at a neighbor's house (from my old neighborhood). The kids, of course, all had a great time. Elizabeth has been in the playgroup since she was 4 months old so we grew up with a lot of these kids.
Saturday we had dinner at Tom's parent's house. It's hard to believe the cousins are all big enough to eat dinner together at their own table - and do a relatively good job!

We have stairs at our new house so we went over the weekend to check out the upstairs. I was a little scared with the kids upstairs and no railings - and since we have never had a 2 story house I realize I have to figure out what to do with windows upstairs and little kids. I'm nervous about them falling out! Anybody with a 2 story house have any suggestions? Do you just not open them?! I'll have to think about that...


Jessica and I went to Ikea over the weekend and I got this blow up frog prince chair for Elizabeth's new room. She wants a princess room so I thought this would be something a little different.


Jessica displaying all our "loot". We didn't go too crazy!

I had to put this picture of Ben up because he looks so cute in it! I love his smile :) I took it because that is watercolor paint all over his face. I don't know how this kid gets so messy! Then, of course, he does a really good natural smile in his messy face. Why won't he smile like that when we are posing for pictures ??!



Elizabeth saw me taking pictures of Ben, so she wanted one too. See the cute shirt and jumper she has on? That night I stuck them in the washer with a black cardigan I had never washed before (why I put them in together I don't know!) and promptly turned that outfit and everything else in the wash a dingy dark blue. Good job, huh?

Busy Weekend

We had another busy weekend around our household (doesn't everybody though!) We started the weekend with a garage sale at my SIL Janet's house. We had so much stuff to sell that it covered the entire driveway! We didn't have as much traffic as we would have liked, but we still made money and had a good time hanging out for the morning. We probably had 15 bags of clothes leftover to donate! I did end up getting that dollhouse for $3 at a garage sale though...that alone was worth it for me!

In other good news they have started working on our house! This has all been done since Thursday, that's the day they poured our foundation. I can't believe how fast it's going.

I made these felt bows for Elizabeth and they were so easy! I know a lot of you have girls so I wanted to share them with you. All you need is felt, thread and needle, a hair clip, and glue. I just cut out the shapes from the felt, glued them together and stitched on the accents. Then I just glued it to the hair clip. I thought a Christmas tree would be adorable with tiny little beads glued on.

I thought this was just funny. The kids were painting and look at Elizabeth's paint tray. Nice and neat. She rinsed her brush and all that before dipping into a new color.

Now this is probably just a boy thing, or a two year old thing, but look at his tray. All mixed up and he used all his paint in about 2 minutes. It was gobbed all over his home depot project.

On Friday we were able to visit our friends who used to live in our old neighborhood and have now moved about an hour away. The kids were so excited to play with Elliott and Berkley - and I was so glad I was able to visit with Chrissy in her gorgeous house!

They are so cute! Maybe Elliott will like younger men as she gets older :)

Hope everyone has a good week!