Parties!

So I've got some catching up to do in the blog department. We've had two birthdays recently...Mikayla is now 3 and Victoria is 5! Mikayla had an Alice in Wonderland themed party...complete with Eat Me Cupcakes and Drink Me "teacups". We had a tea party with sandwiches, cookies, and hot apple cider and celebrated everyone's merry unbirthdays just the way they do it in Wonderland. Everyone was told to come dressed in their best Wonderland outfit. We had some really cute rabbits, alices, and mad hatters! We also had a pinata...which turns out is really hard to break nowadays. John had to end up doing it and it took him a while too. lol.

Then we celebrated Victoria's birthday with her very first sleepover! Three kids ended up spending the night and about three others just came to the party part. It was hard to get those kids to sleep but they eventually did...which was good because Victoria had a dance performance at the festival of trees the next night. We managed to fit them all on her queen size bed...good thing those girls are small. :) She had her jungle cake that she requested...i just colored the icing green and added plastic animals because i wasn't going to pay $20 for a pre-made cake. Though it was a hassle I'm glad she got to experience having a sleepover. I think she enjoyed herself. So the next night was her dance performance at the festival of trees. She had no idea what she was doing this year but her Uncle Tommy and my brother and his family were kind enough to come watch her perform. She's still enrolled in dance and enjoys it so we'll keep with it if she wants to.

Other recent events have involved my mother coming to visit for Thanksgiving. The kids enjoyed having her here and going shopping a lot. Even meeting Santa. It was nice to get some help around this huge house for a while. We also found the time to make a gingerbread house with the kids. It was a fun experience and I look forward to eating it...yumm! So there's a brief catch up. If i've forgotten something I'll be sure to post it later on.