Thursday, May 29, 2014

Happy Birthday Alexis (in January!)

As if we hadn't done enough celebrating already
in the month of January
for this child's birthday...
we celebrated some more!

The day of her actual birthday,
we made more pink pancakes...
with pink sprinkles..
thanks to the Pinkalicious show!


We then hit Chick-Fil-A 
with friends.
And Rico was extremely interested in 
the "new" math book
his friend was using...



Daddy joined us for a quick bite,
and we had cupcakes.


Then we went for an exciting trip to Sam's!!!
All 8 kids, glued to whatever was on the TV!
We joked that we probably could have left them there,
and done our shopping,
and come back,
and not only would they still have been in the SAME spot...
they probably wouldn't have even known we were GONE!


Then back to our house for a little bit of princess
dress-up.
Just what this little girl needed...
in a house full of brothers!


Then we celebrated AGAIN
when daddy got home,
because...
bless her heart,
"it wasn't really her birthday 
until we sang happy birthday
and she got to blow out her candles".

Well,
she got me there...
so,
thankfully there was a cupcake or two left.
I loaded one up with 5 candles,
we sang happy birthday,
she blew them out...
and all was right with the world again.

It was finally
(at 8pm)
her birthday.
Phew!



Then she even talked her little brother
into doing her chores for her!

(no, not really, he spilled water, and had to wipe it up...
but it sounded good...I just had to take a picture)


Oh and the partying wasn't over yet!

We took a brief snow break
then got back to the partying.

As I mentioned
sweet
darling
Alexis
is surrounded by stinky boys.

And she wanted to have her girl friends over
for a girl party!

So we invited a family that we are close friends with...
who have 2 girls (one older and one younger than Lex)
and two boys...right around our older 2 boys' ages.

So while all of the boys were doing their thing...
the girls had a little spa party!

But first it was cake time!

Ms. Priss just happened to go to Harris Teeter with me
one day,
well all 4 of them do,
and I can count on one hand how many times I have taken
them to the grocery store with me in the past 6 months!
During the visit near her birthday,
she saw a can of frosting that was pink
and had pink sprinkles included...
I don't do canned frosting anymore
unless I have to!

So while we were figuring and deciding,
she noticed the picture on the back of the can...
And that was it!
That was the cake...
So I did my best to recreate it.
It is not as level or quite as "perfect" 
as the one on the can...


But Ms. Priss liked it...
and that was all that matters.




And as the norm,
the birthday girl go to cut the cake!


I had to stop her from cutting a fourth of the cake
as her piece!


After cake time,
it was pedicure and manicure time!



Then we had a starter sleepover.
All of the girls fell asleep together,
but the family went home that night.



But she had a great
and
LONG birthday!!




Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Let it Snow, Let it Snow! (Round 2)

Seeing as it is almost June,
and it is pushing 90° outside down here...
I figured why not think cool thoughts,
and catch you up on the 
SECOND
snowfall we got down here
(back in January)...

Ms. Priss turned 5 on January 28, 2014.
Mother Nature decided that she needed some snow
...for her birthday.
So that evening...
it began.


And
it snowed
and
snowed
and
snowed!


And our little southern town
isn't prepared for such snow!
(Because it happens so rarely!)

My husband is in charge of the 
public works department,
so around 4:30am,
he loaded up
and 
headed out 
to make sure the roads were clear
(or as clear as they could be)
for those who needed to get out...
could.

Being the awesome wife that I am,
I got up with him,
made sure he had plenty of food,
because he was probably going to be
working pretty long hours...
and saw him off.


Then promptly crawled back into bed
and passed out again.


The kids were overjoyed when they woke up
to this winter wonderland!

They immediately bundled up...


and dove in!







This is where daddy's work car sat during the snow...
can you tell?


Daddy was able to come home before dark
to enjoy some of the snow with the kids.


And to enjoy a little friendly snowball fight with the kids.



This time the snow stuck around for a couple of days,
so we were able to enjoy it a little longer.

Mr. T's idea of fun in the snow
involved a pail and shovel!




The kids actually figured out the snow was 
PERFECT
for building snowmen!!!



And snowballs!


And for sitting on snowman pieces to eat your snowballs...




Their snowmen were really starting to take shape...
however,
they built them in our neighbor's yard...
so,
meany mommy here...
made them move them!
...to our yard.

The sleds came in handy...


Meanwhile,
Mr. T got back to his pail and shovel...




Here is one of the snowmen...
mid-move.
Makes me think of Olaf from
Frozen.






The littles took a break from snowman building...
to do a little sledding.







Then they got back to snowman building...




And when the snowmen were done...
on to snow fort building...




Then we took a little break 
for a couple of fun pictures...



I decided to see if I could get some pictures of the kids
throwing snowballs at the camera...
while threatening them with severe torture and punishment if they actually
HIT my camera!!!


Ready...

Aim...

Fire!

Round 2:

Fire!



I love my new camera!
The kids had SO much fun throwing snowballs at me!
Haha!


My babies...






My world...


Plus this guy,
of course...