"A" Cubed: May 2014

Wednesday, May 28

Week 22/52

day 148: chore charts and a flexible, predictable schedule

day 149: bike riding at asf

Day 150: JIMMY JOHNS

Day 155: thank you God for mommy & daddy & Andrew & Addie & Audrey Kate & the potty & my friends & most of all Jesus. Amen

Day 152: how'd you learn to sew Rierie? How'd your mama learn to sew? So then how did mommy learn to sew? Answer to all of these questions: their mamas!

Day 153: he got called a girl three times in this blue bubble with acorns & foxes on it...go figure.

Day 154: day 1 of our Under the Sea theme! Painting the top of our jellyfish!

I had to fudge this week to get everything in. I forgot to take a picture period one or two days. Then there was not just one single picture of the little girls at their gymnastics performance, so that needed two days. it all worked out though.

Day 141: gymnastics spring performance

Day 142: gymnastics spring performance

Day 143: first time in a (beach entrance shallow) pool & he l.o.v.e.d it.

Day 144: gymnastics spring performance. Her finish.

Day 145: flowers the mother of the groom sent home with us after we photographed her son's wedding. Best party favor ever from one of my favorite wedding families ever. And sure has made my house look pretty!

Day 146: hydrangeas in our yard

Day 146: Andrew's first time at Kindermusik...and he loved it!

Tuesday, May 27

a Fairy Special 4th Birthday

These sweet girls turned 4 the beginning of May! Oh how I love them & oh how I wish I could slow down time...on most days at least! While i'm pretty sure they would have preferred a frozen party, i think they really had fun at their fairy party!

there were wands and wings for the girls and eye patches for the boys.

i found a variety of vases on sale and filled them with wildflowers. a little fairy garland and fairies the girls made added to the party favors of pixie dust and gold coins!

sweet friends arrived and got to color pirate hats and their very own fairies.

then we played a not-so-successful but still fun pixie dust game.

then everyone had a snack of fairy berries (and grapes), fairy wands, twigs (pretzels) and pixie punch.

and a little time to visit ;0)

after a quick (and rather chaotic) treasure hunt to find jewels for their fairy houses and treasure boxes, it was time to pull out the paint!

and these two little birthday girls...

were so serious about their painting!

the girls painted fairy houses and the boys painted treasure boxes with glittery, shimmery paint and then got to glue their jewels on!

and here's the ones the Anne Perry and Audrey Kate so carefully painted!

and a few their friends painted!

then it was time for fairy cakes!

...which i completely forgot to get a picture of the perfect cupcake tower my mom arranged, but they were similar to this!

these two were so cute while everyone sang happy birthday!

so they could blow out their candles!

thank you sweet friends for celebrating Anne Perry and Audrey Kate with us!

and thank you even more for the a-mazing amount of donations made to the Friendship Women's Shelter in honor of our girls!

i don't entirely remember who did what or when because while i was carrying a table, i knocked my knee so hard that i could hardly see straight (thank goodness for our essential oils pain cream!); but i do know that grandpa and mrs. gail showed up super early to help me set up tables and decorate while my mom made a last minute stop for balloons with addie. paul wrangled the three littles and got them there. he managed to get wings on every little girls and eye patches on the boys! then my mom fed and strolled andrew around during the party while grandpa, mrs. gail and papa al helped get all the paint ready! and then the cleanup...it went so fast with all the amazing help from everyone i've already mentioned and gramma. needless to say...it takes a village; and i'm so thankful for ours!