Bunny Love

There were bunnies at school last week.  Carter was SO excited to get to hold one. :-)  I love his smile here.  It couldn't get any bigger.  He was really concerned about the bunny's eyes being red though. :-) 

Fairytale Ball at Crystal Bridges

A couple of weekends ago we headed to the Crystal Bridges museum here in town for a Fairytale Ball.  The school district participated in the "One Book, One District" reading program and selected the book "The Sisters Grimm, Fairytale Detectives".  We really enjoyed reading the book together each night.  Both of the boys really got into it.  There are 9 books in the series, so we may have to get the next one.  Crystal Bridges hosted a Fairytale Ball in honor of the book and even had the author, Michael Buckley, there to speak.  They had all kinds of crafts and activities for the kids to do.  It was the first time we had taken the boys to the museum and they loved it.  We went and made crowns for my two little Prince Charmings and then went on an art scavenger hunt.  We finally made our way to the ballroom to hear the author speak.  It was a fun afternoon. 

Pinocchio

Author Michael Buckley

Funny Friday!

Carter is non-stop entertainment.  He walked in last night with his shorts pulled up to his chest and said, "Hey, Mom!  Look!  I'm an old man!"  

Collin's Birthday Festivities!

Collin turned 6 on February 28th.  So hard to believe.  He was pretty excited about turning 6 and is already talking about turning 7 next year!  Slow down big guy!!!  What a glorious 6 years it has been.  Collin you are a joy to have as a son and a great big brother.  We love  you so much and thank God for you every day!  Please stop growing up so fast though! :-)

On his actual birthday we had some birthday waffles before school.  He was excited to wake up to balloons and streamers in his room.  That evening we went to Red Robin for dinner (his choice) and then back to the house for some milkshake cupcakes.  He got a new razorback hat (daddy picked out), some new shoes, some halo stuff and a new ds game.  Carter got him a new skylander, Shroom Boom, so he was excited about that too.

Friday night we hit the bowling alley with some of our friends.  The kids all had such a good time.  Collin had requested a camo birthday, so we did both of his parties in that theme.  He wanted a tank cake, so that's what he got (from Shelby Lynn's Cake Shoppe in Springdale).  

Kaden, Daniel, Collin, Cole, Carter, Peter, Reagan, Lily, Aubrie, Gabby & Taylor
(Avery somehow missed the picture.)

Saturday we ended the birthday festivities with a small family party.

Courtney, Josh, Hudson & Hayes, Me-Ma & Pa-Pa, Mimi and Papa, cousin Johnathan and Wendy & Mackenzie were there.  We enjoyed some more yummy cake and presents.  

BJ, Wendy & Mackenzie got Collin some Lacrosse sticks.  Excited to learn how to play that!  We might need a coaching lesson Uncle BJ! :-)

The birthday boy and little brother with Me-Ma & Pa-Pa.

Mimi & Papa got Collin a deer target.  He was pretty excited about that!

The boys with Mimi & Papa

The boys with little cutie Mackenzie. :-)

Collin & Aunt Courtney

Cousin Johnathan got Collin some new arrows for his bow!

Thank you to all our our family and friends for being such a blessing to us and Collin!

He had a blast and loved spending his birthday with all of you!

Snow Day!!

We finally got a couple of snow days!!  The boys were super excited since we didn't even have any snow last year.  It was perfect snow to build a snowman.  In a hurried attempt, I just used food coloring to make a face on him, which was a good thing because he didn't last long.  I looked out and found the boys karate chopping/kicking him to pieces.  Poor Frosty. :-)

Razorback Baseball

My wonderful friend, Eileen, invited Modus to hang out with them in the Arvest suite at the Razorback baseball game a couple of weekends ago.  We had such a fun time and even got a special visitor to come to our suite.  The boys were pretty excited about that.  Thank you Eileen for a fun day!

Scout, Collin & Carter with the Razorback.

Carter being silly with Ciel close by. :-)

Showing The Love-Valentine's Day

We had a wonderful little Valentine's Day.  Here's a low-down of our activities....

Collin wanted me to make a tank for his valentine's box at school.  It turned out super cute. :-)

Collin made a sweet Valentine for Josh and I at school......complete with zombies and ninjas. :-)  Love that boy!

He handed out "You Rock" pop rock valentine's at school

And a special Valentine for his teacher. :-)

For his class party, I decided to do a "Sweetheart Sundae" ice cream party.  The kids LOVED it!  They had all kinds of toppings at their table to build their ultimate sundaes and then topped them with chocolate syrup and whipped cream of course!  We then played bingo and they loved that too.  I also had made some little photo props of mustaches for the boys and red lips for the girls so we could take some fun class photos.  

We then headed over to see Aunt Courtney, Hudson & Hayes for the afternoon.  Aunt Courtney is always so great to watch Carter for me while I am hosting Collin's class parties.  Of course, Carter & Hudson had to have their pictures with the mustaches too.

That evening, I decided to have just a small, quiet, candlelight dinner at home with my 3 valentines.  We had chicken fettucine alfredo and a layered chocolate mousse/oreo dessert.  It was yummy!!!

Me with my Valentine's.  I love you 3 SO much!!!