Henry's ONE!

We had a construction party for Henry. I kind of waited until the last minute to do the decorations so there are only a few. The pictures of the decorations are not very good - I forgot to take a picture of them while they were hanging up.

DECORATIONS

I made the orange construction signs and the tractors I got at Zurchers. They are table decorations, but I hung them from the ceiling with fish line. I also had brown, orange and light blue balloons in the corners of the kitchen.

OPENING PRESENTS

THE CAKE

Thanks to everyone who helped us celebrate his special day.

Happy Birthday, Abigail!

Gabi turned 4 years old today. It doesn't seem that long ago when she was just a baby. How fast time flies. This year she wanted a butterfly birthday. I also told her she could invite 4 friends since she was turning 4. She only wanted to invite 2, but that's okay. They had a lot of fun.

ACTIVITIES

creating beautiful foam butterflies with craft foam stickers

decorating butterfly shaped cookies

Emmi, Tillie, Gabi, Kylie Bollard, Sarah showing their butterflies off. (cousin Maylee also came to the party, but was unable to be in the picture)

OPENING PRESENTS

Gabi's haul. She wanted to play with everything all at once. She had a great birthday and thanked everyone for their gifts and for coming to her party. What a sweet, wonderful girl.

DECORATIONS

I made these butterfly clips for each of the girls. They were in their party bags.

(and lunch with Dad at Wingers) - the popcorn restaurant she said)

Summer Vacation

This summer we went on a week long vacation to Crater Lake, Oregon, The Redwoods, California and Lassen Volcano. We had a lot of fun and saw some great National Parks. We mostly camped and the other nights, we stayed in a hotel. The kids all enjoyed the swimming pools at the hotels.

CRATER LAKE

OREGON COAST

THE REDWOODS

LASSEN VOLCANO

Daddy daughter date!

Abigail & daddy @ Chili's

family games

One night for Family Night, Emmi was on games. She picked a game called Would You Rather...?

Now, it's been a few months since I took these pictures so I don't have very many details, but what I do know, is that she picked to do this pose.

You want me to do WHAT?!

Oskar / Dad breakfast at IHOP

dancing

Tilllie has quite the dance moves. She moves to any kind of music and she's been doing it ever since she was little. She is our music girl!

little helpers

Baking is so much fun. Especially when you get it on your nose (your arms, cheeks, chin, clothes, chairs, and floor). I decided to take a picture after I saw Tillie try to lick the flour off of the counter. They really had a fun time. We ended up making cinnamon rolls. My first attempt. They ended up being tasty.

on his way

I thought it would take longer for Henry to get the crawling down, but it really only took him a few hours. I'm sure he'll be faster tomorrow...

walk/crawl this way

Henry is so close to making a break for it. He was going for the camera case. I tried my hand at recording him crawling, but he only went one step/crawl. He'll probably be a pro in the next few days.

Cranky!

This kid has been cranky all day. It seems that the only thing that will relax him is a stroller ride through the house.

on the move (almost)

1. Get on your tummy - smile at mom

2. Do a push-up

3. Back on tummy

(6 1/2 months old)

squeaky clean

The girls thought it was great that their brother joined them in the tub. They have never had a more enjoyable bath.