Brooklyn is 5

This year Brookie said she wanted a Cowgirl Party!! So she got cowgirl boots and a hat and we went and took pictures to put on the invitations. Which I don't have a copy of the invitation but it was SUPER cute!! Laci Arias took these pictures.

We. . .and by we I mean, mostly Laci did a lot of work. She should be some type of party/event planner. I swear we were up till 2 a.m. every night for about 2 weeks trying to get stuff done. The party was a HUGE success, the kids loved it! I'll let the pictures do most of the talking!





My cousin made this cute cowgirl cake


This was "Panning for Gold" I found this idea on Pinterest, you mix food coloring with the rice. It's like a sand box but less messy and much prettier looking. This was a BIG hit with the little guys.

This was a target shooting set up, not such a big hit.


We had "Pin the Braid on the Cowgirl"

Birthday Girl was up first!

Here's Eva
Mia and Brookie were the closest!

I made little booklets for all the kids to color and they had activity pages.

Told ya this was a big hit. These 3 little ones were entertained for quite some time. At one point Hudson was actually sitting in the bucket!!


Pinata Pictures, yes the tongue helps her!


This is her neighbor friend, Olivia, with a MEAN face, and yes that helps as well!
Brent

Landon

Kaylie

Mia

No one broke it so I ended up opening it and scattering the candy everywhere!

We loaded the kids up in the back of the truck and drove around the corner for a BIG surprise!!! Which we didn't even need to go to the surprise, the kids thought driving in the back of the truck was sooo cool!!!

The BIG surprise is they got to ride a Horse!!! First up was the birthday girl of course!! She absolutely loved it!!

Eva
Lexi
Hudson wanted to jump over the fence!
Olivia

I was the designated driver for the little ones. I love Hudson's faces in these pictures!

Most of the kids. Back row: Eva, Olivia, Brookie who has her arm around Hudson :), Lexi

Front row:Mia, Brent, Jayden

The wind kept blowing the fire out. . .
So we just had her blow out the lighter instead! She didn't seem to care.
PRESENT TIME!!!

Laci made this!!! No pattern, she just whipped it out! This will be her Halloween costume. She will be Jessie and Hudson will be Woody.

The scooter is from Mom and Dad. She has been driving it around literally everyday!!!!

The grand finale of the night was the present that Papa made for her. I found a website online that gives you the plans to build things for free. I showed it to my Dad, he made some changes and Da-Ta! He made me paint it, which was a nightmare!! But Brookie loves it!!!

Here is the finished product, all set up in her room. I still have some work to do, I'm going to put carpet on the stairs and make some cute curtains but she LOVES it!!! Every night she is excited to go sleep in her bed!

I love her face sticking thru!!

18 Months

I am so far behind, a lot has changed around our house lately which hopefully I will get caught up on. But for the moment I'm going to focus on Hudson. He is now 18 months old and his the cutest, sweetest little boy!


At 18 months
Weight: 23 lbs (22%)
Height: 32 in (49%)
Head: 18 in (45%)

Hudson is at a very fun age as well as a very hard age. It's fun because I love his personality, he is so funny! He loves to play with Sissy and explore. He loves to play outside, help Daddy mow the lawn and play in the water. It's also a very hard age because he is into everything and going to the store (grocery, craft, clothing store, restaraunt) doesn't matter where but he is impossible to take!! He won't stay in the cart to save my life, he'd rather get down and run around touching and pulling everything off the shelves!!

I recently have gone back to work part time and the kids are with Lane. So Hudson and Lane have a pretty tight bond now. It was sad at first because he wanted nothing to do with me but it's getting better now. And Brooklyn and Lane have always had a tight bond. It 's hard to be away from them but for the most part they are with Lane getting some Daddy time!

Our camera is broken so all these pictures are from Lane's phone when he has been watching the kids.





Taco Amigo fries and fry sauce!! A favorite of Hudson's.


Lane is such a good Dad. He is far more patient than I am. He takes the kids to the park, mows the lawn, plays outside with them, and feeds them Taco Amgio!!