Annie's Party ~ Turning 8

Already another year has flown by. 

It birthday party time again!

This year Annie's theme is

Growing Up Too Fast

Here is a peek at the invites:

And can you throw a "grown-up" party without a Starbucks?

These kid sized, "decorate your own" 

travel mugs are from the dollar store.

Perfect for the Frappuccino bar!

The party is next Saturday.

I have LOTS to do before then.

It'll be a crazy week!

I Didn't Say...

The week leading up to Mother's Day was full of adventures.

Like:

Me sitting on a full, just opened,
 Go-gurt left on the couch,

Bo deciding to paint the new deck railings

yellow with a paint pen he found,

Rocco deciding to change his own poopie diaper,

and a tiny glass of water taking out

our 1 year old lap top.

So when my Dad bought me a dozen bright colored roses,

I didn't say, "You shouldn't have!"

And when Annie gave me the sweetest

homemade box with candy, 

You didn't hear me say,

"You didn't need to get me anything!"

And when Kelly wrote me the sweetest card with a thick little wad of 20s for my new camera fund,

I did NOT say,

"That is too much!"

What I did say, when those little rascals were

hugging me & telling me what a good Mom I am, was,

"Thank You! 

You are soooo lucky God picked

ME to be your Mommy!"

See I am a little bit of a rascal too :)

I like Mother's Day.

Hope you had a good one!

We took the leap...

Sorry I haven't gotten around to visiting this week!

It has been a VERY busy week.

We have been busy shopping.

We needed boots,

And cowboy hats,

Because tonight...

We bought a horse!

This is Ginger.

Bo loves her so much he says he is gonna sleep on her.

Thanks to Renne for trusting us with her!

Renne had rescued her & now it's our turn to love her up!

We came home and had some

ice cream & brownies to celebrate.

We have some pretty happy kids

snuggled under their covers right now :)

Fell asleep smiling....I think I will too.

Green

After our Blue week,

The next week was GREEN for sure!

Rocco's blue cast turned green

when we had to go in for a new one because he

fell in our little garden pond.

If you knew how hard I tried to

protect that thing from getting wet!

How many times I yelled,

"ROCCOOOOOOO!

Get away from that pond!"

You should have seen how happy Bo was when I told them they cut the old one off with a saw.  Of course, he had to come along to watch, they both loved it way too much.

 

We also had Annie's Academic Fair.

Her class was a pioneer village.

More green :)

(And too much orange)

Which, of course, she insisted on

wearing out to dinner before the event.

But my favorite part of her project

was the little mouse hole

that she thought of herself :)

And last was lunch.

Our Green lunch.

We replanted centerpieces from our

Spring Party into a big pot to keep on our deck.

Bo loved picking his own lunch.

Although next time he can pick it outside!

(It was raining :)

Green is good :)

Did your week have a color?

I loved reading your colors last time!

Spring Party

A few moms got together & threw

A Spring Party

for all the 2nd grade familes.

You know how I feel about parties!

And even though it turned out to be the one cold day of Spring, Spring was definitely in the air!

Birds inspired by the much cuter version on:

Soup Can

Scrapbook Paper

Lettuce

A Cute Pencil

Whaalaa! 

Centerpieces!

Or just add a peep on a pencil to a pot of flowers:

There was face painting,

(This is our fab hostess letting us invade her home.)

sack racing,

chalk,

bubbles

cookie decorating,

an egg hunt,

and lots of yummy treats!

(Cake by Gina)

Best of all there was lots of laughter

& the party went on long into the night.

Might have started a tradition :)

Hope your Spring is filled with lots of smiles!

Hosanna!

This time he did...

Blue

Our week was colored with blue.

With 3 boys I shouldn't be surprised :)

Rocco tells me almost daily,

"Mom I broke my leg!"

Well, this time he was right.

He was just happily dancing around for his grandpa,

stepped on it wrong,

and broke a bone in his foot.

A quick trip to the doc...

....for one blue cast.

And an hour later..

He was off!!!

Not slowing him down one bit.

And today

2 blue treats.

Bedtime snack of Blue popcorn.

(Popsecret Magic Colors blue butter)

And Roo enjoyed a blue marker.

What color was your week?