Easter Pics....Finally

Robert and I flew in from Hawaii early Easter morning. Luckily for us the Harwood's had taken care of all the Easter preparations so the Easter Bunny could do it's thing. The kids had a lot of fun and here are a few of the cute pictures from that day.

Hawaii

Robert and I took a trip to Hawaii without the kids. We have been to both Oahu and Maui. It is so beautiful here. We have spent time on both Waikiki and Ka'anapali beaches. We survived the Road to Hana in Maui and hiked the Manoa Trail in Oahu to see some amazing waterfalls. We visited the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor and the Punchbowl. We went snorkeling at Hanauma Bay, blown away by Pali lookout, checked out the Dole Plantation, spent a day at the Polynesian Center, and walked the grounds of the Laie Temple. Today we went on a catamaran to go whale watching. The video attached it a sampling of what we saw on the cruise.

Yipee The Tooth is Out

Emilee lost her very first baby tooth. A little over a week ago, after Emilee had been tucked into bed, she came running out of her room yelling "Mommy" "Daddy". The first thing that popped into my head was she saw a scorpion or some other hideous bug in her room. That was not the case, her tooth was loose. Very loose. Well she would not let anyone touch anything anywhere near her mouth. It took some coaxing to get her to play with her tooth. Then last Friday, she let me check out her mouth. She let me wiggle the tooth a little and then decided that she didn't like me touching her tooth. Well as she was moving to get off my lap my finger popped that little tooth right out of her mouth and it landed on the floor. Yipee the tooth is out. The tooth fairy came that night and all is well in the world of Emilee once more.

Emilee's Birthday pictures

Here are Emilee's pictures we had taken for her sixth birthday. She was channeling her inner princess that day at the photo studio.

The picture fairy did it...

As I downloaded pictures from the camera recently, I noticed some shots that I did not take...and I am quite certain that Robert did not take these pictures either. It seems we have a little picture taking fairy at our house.

The Cookie, The Bike and The PJ's

The Santa Cookie...When Santa came to our home on Christmas to deliver toys, he only took a couple bites out of this huge cookie we left for him. Well Christmas morning during all the hoopla and craziness as the gifts were being attacked by the two oldest children, little Alyssa found the leftover cookie. As I look through the pictures taken Christmas morning several have Alyssa munching on the Santa Cookie. Luckily Alyssa didn't have to worry about opening gifts because Zach took care of that for almost everyone. He kept picking up presents and saying they were for him and opening them.


The Bike...the second most photographed item on Christmas morning is Zach on his brand new bike. I don't know that he got off that thing much that morning.


The new PJ's...the third most photographed item on Christmas morning were the pajama's we gave the kids on Christmas Eve. We didn't take pictures of the pajamas on Christmas Eve because it was late and the kids were so cranky that night. Then the next morning the kids did everything but look at the camera at the same time as we attempted to have them poise for the pictures.

When you turn 6 all you need are SPRINKLES

Emilee turned the big "SIX" this month. Her birthday was the Saturday before Christmas and unfortunately it has taken until now to get something down in writing about the event. One tradition we have with the kids is to hang streamers on the door. Lucky for us Emilee took pictures of the streamers after Alyssa had her way with them.


The day prior to the big event I had baked a cake while Emilee was at a friends. Emilee had picked out a carriage (ie. Cinderella's carriage from the ball) cake pan. I pulled the cake out of the oven just before leaving to pick Emilee up and the cake ended up sitting in the pan a lot lot lot lot lot longer than it should have. Needless to say, when I took the cake out of the pan, some of it did not pop out on its own. About 1/4 of the cake needed some strong coaxing at knife point to get out. Then we had to leave to go to Emilee's performance detailed in the previous blog. So nothing was done with the cake on Friday.

On Saturday we were busy all morning with birthday stuff and Christmas stuff... Then that afternoon we went to Chuck E. Cheese.






By the time we got home I didn't have time to even try to make the cake pretty so I begged Emilee to let us make it into a triffle and I would decorate a pretty cake for her in a day or two. So with the wisdom that comes to a mature six year old she told me that it was no problem. We could solve everything with sprinkles. So Emilee and I patched the cake together and I frosted it with white frosting. We then pulled out all the sprinkles we could find in the house. There were at least 7 different bottles of sprinkles on the counter when Emilee went to work. When she was done she declared that it was the prettiest cake ever. Her friend Laurynn came over on Monday and gushed over the cake saying it was so beautiful.




So I was lucky because I didn't have to spend hours decorating a carriage cake, but Emilee thinks she is lucky because she got to decorate her own birthday cake. The morale of this story is that you don't have to spend hours doing tedious work for my girl. All she needs is some sprinkles.