We went to our downtown art festival back in March. We normally just walk around and then eat a snack from the yummy vendors. But this year, they had a kids area where they could make crafts for free. Of course, all our kids wanted was a cowboy hat and Kole didn’t even want one of those! They also got some balloon animals and after the second one popped, we decided to go eat a snow cone and call it a day!
The first day of spring break was crazy rainy so we decided to spend the day at the Naval Air Station museum. Unfortunately the rest of Pensacola had the same idea and it was insanely packed! We still had a good time though. They loved seeing all the planes and playing in the kids area. I always love seeing the movies they have on IMAX, but we didn’t do that this time. We ate at the little café there and it was delicious. I don’t remember it being that good before! I think it’s pretty amazing that we live so close to the home of The Blue Angels!
Kole wasn’t feeling the picture with the planes. She wanted my mom to hold her instead of Presley!
The one on the right cracks me up! Kole decided to fly like a plane! (:
This one was much better…all smiles! Of course the only picture of Presley and I turned out super blurry. Glad we got a bunch of my mom and the kids though!
Oh I love these munchkins! (:
Jeremiah’s birthday was November 22nd and mine was December 7th, so clearly I’m a lot late in posting this! I totally forgot to take pics for mine, but we celebrated the day of with just us 3 at Olive Garden. And then a few days later, Jeremiah and my Mom cooked a Pioneer Woman meal complete with the best chocolate cake in existence, and we celebrated then with everybody. For Jeremiah’s birthday, we ate seafood at a local restaurant (can’t remember the name right now) and OhSnap! made him a red velvet cake. It was super delicious! So enjoy the pictures!
Kole and Presley were just as excited to blow out the candles as Jeremiah! :)
Hope everyone had a great candy-filled night! We sure did! We went to Immanuel Baptist Church’s trunk or treat. They had lots of candy, bouncy houses, a gigantic inflatable slide, and free food! (they were some delicious hot dogs too) Presley dressed up this year as Peppa Pig. It is, without a doubt, her favorite TV show right now. And it has made her obsessed with all things pig related! I’m pretty sure no one knew who she was, but that’s ok. She knew she was Peppa and that’s all that mattered!
Presley was laughing in the first picture because she saw a car decorated like cookie monster. She thought that was hilarious!
Chloe (on the left) was a pretty princess being oinked at by Peppa! And then on the right were Peppa, Sully from Monsters, Inc., Rapunzel (of course!) and a football player! I thought they all looked fabulous!
Daddy had the best costume…a handsome dude! And Mommy was a black-eyed P! get it? yeah, it took some people a minute!
I know some Christians declare celebrating Halloween sinful. But honestly, to me, everyday is the Lord’s day. Why give it away to the devil? We always celebrate 10/31 with fun and family anyway, so what’s the harm in getting all dressed up and eating some candy? just my opinion….
This is the day the LORD has made;
We will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm 118:24
Kole turned 5 on Saturday! I still can’t believe she’s that old! The kids had so much fun and my mom and I had fun planning it all. If you’ve read this blog for any length of time, you know that the kids love Tangled. So for Kole’s party, Tangled was the only way to go!
Rapunzel paint as favors and Pascal party blowers! Almost all of our great ideas came from this site.
Kole was in awe of the tower! I was so happy that she liked it, cause it was a pain in the rear to put together! When reading the directions, it seemed simple enough. I took a wrong turn when I decided to do a cake base instead of a styrofoam base like Bakerella said to do…pssh, what does she know anyway? ;) so even though I hot-glued the dowel rod to the cake board, it was still too much weight and it ended up leaning and eventually falling over. We used fishing line to try to salvage it enough for pictures! I guess this is where the ghetto Rapunzel would live!!!
An up close of the jello boats we made. Such a cute idea for any party!
Tangled gifts! =)
Presley couldn’t figure out how to do it, so she just held it for her Daddy to blow it for her!
The playhouse got a Tangled makeover too! My Dad & Kameron did this with no directions and I have to say that I was impressed! Most of the time if you give men some streamers and balloons and tell them to just decorate it however, it doesn’t turn out this great!!!
No Tangled party would be complete without painting! Even Presley got in on the action, but would only hold the brush for a second, then say “yuck, my hand id stiddy” (sticky) and promptly command me to paint what she wanted to paint. That girl’s a mess!!
The result of the above painting! It kinda stained their skin! Oops!! Presley found the cure though, when she soaked her hands in the watery soap basin for like 15 min. No, she’s not a small genius. She was just having fun playing in it! Her feet though were a different story.
I totally forgot to take a picture of the front door that day. There was a long Rapunzel-like braid hanging on it. Oh well, my mom said she’d re-do the door and get a picture!
Thanks Mama for always allowing me to help with the kids’ parties! I have such a great time doing it! :)
Jeremiah and I kept the kids last week for my parents while they enjoyed a Branson vacation. I’m not gonna lie, I was kinda nervous about this. Not that they weren’t going to behave, but that I wouldn’t be a good mom to 4 kids. 3 out of the 4 go to school each day and then you add in homework, soccer practice & a game, Kole’s PT….I was a little overwhelmed to begin with! But my wonderful Mama wrote down a detailed schedule that kept us all sane. And it totally helped when I got the complaint “We don’t normally do that”, all I had to say was it’s on the list that she wrote out! :)
They stayed Thursday afternoon until Tuesday morning and we had a great time! Monday after school was the only time we were driving each other crazy and the only time time-out was utilized! Other than that they all played really well together and minded us great.
Saturday afternoon, while Presley was napping, I took Jaden and Kole to see Disney Live at the Civic Center. My manager had given me some free tickets and I had wanted to take them anyway so it worked out perfectly that we got to go for free. They, of course, had a blast! Since I didn’t have to pay to get in, I decided to buy them a magic Mickey wand and a light up Mickey light-saber. They spent the rest of the afternoon nearly poking their and other people’s eyes out! You’re welcome Mama! ;) I thought the program was originally Disney On Ice, but it was just a play about the (condensed) stories of Snow White, Cinderella and Belle. I enjoyed it probably as much as they did!
The Grand Finale song had all of the princesses dressed in white and Minnie and Mickey dancing around. Then of course in high Disney fashion, fireworks and glitter exploded out into the audience. Jaden and Kole said “Wow!”
We HAD to watch Tangled on Friday night, because no weekend spent with Jaden and Kole would be complete without watching Tangled. Seriously! It’s ok though, because I really like that movie. Kameron was less than thrilled to be watching it, because he said that that’s all they watch at home. RIght. So we quickly quieted him up with the iPad! Presley actually sat for a about 5 min. in her Daddy’s lap and watched it. Which is a record for her watching any movie.
And finally a picture of the two cutest girls ever brushing away one night!
I am SO loving the way WLW lets you post for your blog! Obviously, it’s my second post in one day! Anyway, Kameron is playing soccer this year and his team is pretty good. They won 3-0 tonight and I like to think it was because we were there cheering them on! 
I was a little disappointed with the Six Flags day. I think all of us were really. They are in their "off-season" which means only open on Saturdays and Sundays. You would think that since school has started back and not many people take vacations then, it would be safe to go....WRONG!!! There were SO many people there. We still had to wait in line for the big roller coasters for over an hour. It. Was. Ridiculous. We spent the money to ride only 3 rides.....I was a little perturbed! The only good thing about going this time of year was that the weather was nice.
The kids had a lot of fun riding rides. We rode a big train around the park and Presley loved that! She is crazy into trains right now! We brought Presley with us in line for Superman and then just swapped her between the four adults riding. But people were staring us down and whispering "that baby can't ride this!" No duh people, she kinda doesn't meet the height requirements! Haha! But she probably would if she could.....this kid LOVES to be scared!
Here she is on a ride all by herself! She looked scared to begin with, but once it started going, she was all smiles and would wave to us as she went by!! (it's crazy bad because it's a cropped cell phone pic.)
These were swinging boats that actually went pretty fast. Jaden was in the boat in front of us by himself. He was constantly turned around telling us that we were super spies and what kind of mission we were on. He's so silly! Kole was raising her hands up the whole time and Presley was holding on to one of my fingers and grinning like a monkey. Life with these munchkins sure is interesting! :]
TRAIN!
At least it was a day spent with the people I love! Minus Jeremiah, he had to work....boo for being an adult!
