Chuck E. Cheese Fun

For the second year in a row, Walker wanted a Chuck E. Cheese birthday party.  Since he's out of school on Fridays, we are able to plan for that day.  It makes it much less crowded!

It's super easy and he LOVES it!!!!

Ready to party!

So excited to see Leonard!

Everly was pumped that Hartley was there!

Games!

Cupcake time.

This year, he actually posed with Chuck E.

All the kids!

Ticket blaster.

He got way too many!!!  He loves feeding them into the counter.

Both babes came home as super heroes.

More presents!

And, this is the only "family picture" I got.

Yep, ninja turtle selfie.  Perfect ending to quite a the birthday celebration!

Walker is 6!!!

I'm not sure how this happened, but we have a six year old.  Really.  He had a great actual birthday.  We took cookies to school and then he requested spaghetti for dinner.  Bunny and RayRay came over for dinner, cupcakes and the first round of presents!!!!

It was a great day celebrating the sweetest, kindest, most handsome, precious boy!!!

Stuck in a Tree

Yes, you read that right.  Walker got stuck in a tree.  It wasn't funny at the time, but looking back, it's quite hilarious.

It was a gorgeous day and the babes were enjoying the sunshine.  Until…. Walker got stuck.  I'm still not sure how it happened, but his knee was really, really stuck.  I tried to pull on him.  I tried to lift him up.  I tried to pull the branches apart.  I couldn't get him out.  During this process, I sat in an ant bed.  That wasn't fun.  The longer it went on, the more hysterical Walker got.  Which made his sweet, little sister get hysterical, too.  So, here I am…. ants all over my backside and two screaming children. 

I sent a SOS to all my neighbors to see if anyone could come help me pull the branches apart and get him, unstuck.

Thankfully, Don was around and he came to our rescue.  All in all it wasn't THAT dramatic, but it was kind crazy.  Although, I'm sure it was the first of many silly boy adventures that will come our way!

Golden Globes

My mom has a Golden Globe party every year.  It is really fun!!!!  We get to bet on who we think will win the awards and drink champagne!  It is a unique party, because it's "multigenerational".  Several moms and daughters!!

And, I got to hang out with two of my favorites…. Debra and Sarah:

And, here's me and mom:

Everyone enjoyed the show and talking about all the fashion and which celebrity looked good or bad.

Here's the whole crew:

It was a great party and tons of fun.  What a fabulous tradition!

Blog Books

I think most of my loyal WoodWords reader know, I print out my blog.  They are fabulous hardback books and I absolutely love them.  I was actually behind a couple of years, so I've been working on 2013 and 2014.  I got out the older books so I could make sure they match!

Someone was VERY excited to look through them!

I hope she is always interested in looking back!!!!!

Because with the blog book, she and Walker can remember pictures like this:

Babes and puppies warming up by the fire!  Too cute!

Super Heros!

Our little neighbor, Colin, turned three and had an awesome Super Hero birthday at the children's museum.

How are cute are these two:

Everly was excited to play with her buddy, Hartley.

All the kids love the water table!

Such a fun party…. They got to come home with those masks and capes.  Although, super girl did turn in her pink cape and came home as Wonder Woman!  It was an awesome Sunday afternoon!

Bowling Fun

After Christmas was over, the kids started getting a bit stir crazy!  Lots of cold weather and clouds makes for some cabin fever!

So, we decided to go bowling!  It was Everly's first time….. she's a fan!

It was Walker's second time, but the first time trying the ramp.

He was actually better without it!!!

Love a mommy/babe selfie!

The master bowlers!

And, just because I was the big winner on the second game, I have to show this!

I broke 150!!!!  I've always loved to go bowling…. I'm glad the rest of my family enjoys it, too.  

Pretty as a Picture

Happy New Year!

Back in November, we had some family pictures taken by a real photographer.  It had been almost two years, so it was time.  And, as always, Joyelle impressed!!

I love all of these!

I have to include this one…..

It was freezing… literally.  I think it was 30 degrees.  I really thought that it was going to be a horrible session, but obviously, (and, thankfully) I was wrong!  We kept taking our coats on and off in between pictures. The kids handled it really well and I'm so happy to have such great family pictures!