Griggs

Saturday, March 31, 2012

Happy Happy 3!

Rapunzel, let down your hair!

This year Avery wanted a Tangled theme birthday party. It was such a fun theme to plan for!

Here are the invitations she handed out to her friends.

I made a long strand of braided hair out of yarn. It took forever! The yarn kept getting "tangled" lol

Here it is all finished and draped outside on our door.

I decided to have a tea party type setting in our family room.

Jello boats

Each girl took home a cup full of fun little Rapunzel things. My fav, Rapunzel paint.

I made each girl a long braid with flowers on them that clipped into each girls hair. They loved them!

I used lanterns through out the house.

Good old Flynn Rider

When the girls first arrived, we made purple princess crowns.
Notice pascal sitting on a lantern? Cuteness!

And then we made some pascal party blowers.

The girls played pin the frying pan on Flynn Rider. I went to the local print store and had them blow up my Flynn Rider picture, and then printed out some frying pans.

Time for "tea"
I found some super cute paper straws.

When it was time to sing happy birthday, all the girls waited patiently to help Avery blow our her candles.

Yummy cupcakes!

Avery chose this bee camping chair to be her seat at the table. Whatever the birthday girl wants right?

After we had cake we decided to dance to the Tangled soundtrack.

Next was presents!

The girls decided that they wanted to play with Avery's princes barbies. These girls LOVE princesses!

After we had Avery's little friend party, we had the family over for cake and ice cream, and a few other yummy finger food.

Here is little sis trying really hard to rip open the wrapping paper off of this gift. Love the expression on her face.

Morgan and I stayed up pretty late the night before making this cute Rapunzel cake. Morgan even made the number three to look like pascal. Perfect touch!

This birthday was a bitter sweet one. I realized that my kids are growing up and soon there wont be a baby in the house any more. It's hard to realize that Avery is our last, but I know things will only get to be more fun as they get older. Happy Birthday my little one! You will always be my baby ;)

Stop, drop, and roll!

Carsons preschool class had a field trip to the fire station! Boy was he excited! He had been talking about going to see the fire trucks weeks before his trip.

When the kids first arrived at the fire station, they had a talk on fire safety. We even got to hear what it would sound like if the fire house got a call to rush to a fire.

Here the kids are learning how to crawl if ever they were in a house fire.

The kids got to feel how heavy the fire fighters protective clothing is.

The firefighter put layer upon layer of clothing until he was all dressed, mask included. He told the kids to never be afraid of a firefighter, even if he is dressed like this. Yeah, Avery didn't agree. She was scared!

Dad had the day off so we all joined Carson in the fun.

The kids got to walk through a fire truck

After we got to tour the fire house and check out the inside of a fire engine, we then got to go outside and see how the engine works. Here is the ladder at full extension.

This is my favorite picture of all. Can you guess what is happening? Yup, they turned on the siren.

At the end of our trip Carson wanted to sit on the front of the engine. Imagine if they would have made the siren go off while he was sitting there lol

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Happy Valentine's day

Happy Valentine's day!

When the kids got up on v-day they had a little bag of goodies waiting for each of them.

For breakfast the kids ate redish pancake hearts.

It's been a tradition since Bay was a baby, to get a flower from daddy for Valentine's day.

Avery even gets a flower from dad. This year they were chocolate flowers.

When it was time for dinner I decorated the kitchen with hearts and red and white streamers.

Table setting

And here is what was for dinner. Homemade pizza with heart shaped peperoni. Yes, it did take me forever to cut them into hearts.

For dessert we had strawberry short cake using Twinkies cut in half to make a heart.

What would a Valentine's Day dinner be without the candles and apple cider?
Cheers!

Saturday, February 11, 2012

The making of minions

Happy Birthday Carson!!! You are a whole hand now! Where on earth did the time go? I know I say that with every new birthday the kids have, but seriously, it seems like yesterday I held this little guy in my arms at the hospital. Now he is 5.

Carson celebrated his birthday in his preschool class the day before his birthday. Here is the cool hat his teacher made him.

Here are the minion cupcakes I made for his class. They were a big hit :)

The next morning was Carson's big day! His official birthday. Feb 7th. We like to say that 7 is Carson's lucky number. He was born at 7:30 pm on 2-7-07 weighing in at 7 lbs.

Carson had to wear his hat while opening his presents from mom and dad.

This year for Carsons birthday party he decided he wanted a Despicable Me party. I loved the idea of using minions through out the party. I decided to make his party a "drive in movie" and had the kids come and sit in cars that I made out of cardboard boxes to watch the movie.

I gave each kid 7 tickets that they were able to cash in and buy treats to eat while they watched the movie.

I made 10 cars. Each had a set of headlights, a steering wheel, and a personalized license plate that I forgot to take a picture of.

Birthday boy eating licorice

Growing up I had a pinata with every birthday party I had. So I decided to make Carson a minion pinata. Morgan drew the overalls for me.

I had a hard time watching all my hard work get beaten to pieces. he he

After the pinata it was time to open presents.
I love the look and Carson and Logan's face when Carson opened up a gift that had a dollar in it. lol

Aunt Kristy and Uncle Ty Ty got Carson some awesome Lego shoes! He had to try them on as soon as he opened them up to let us see how fast they make him run.

Making the minion cake was one of the easiest cakes I have made. I realized the trick to fondant is to buy it pre-made from Hobby Lobby and coloring it my self. I actually enjoyed making this cake.