Lily Quote

We were planning the presents we were going to give our family and friends.  We were deciding what to get one of our Grandma's and Lily excitedly said, "I know!  Let's give her chaos."  Spencer and I laughed and commented that all Grandma had to do to have chaos was to be around our house for a while.  :)

Lily's 5th Birthday

Waking up to the family singing "Happy Birthday"

Opening presents first thing in the morning...  She got lots of favorites- new sand toys, playdoh, a shirt from Papa that says "Daddy's Princess", and some money that she used to buy a princess laptop toy

The girls went to the zoo for her birthday.  Any day spent at the zoo is a good day.

I told Lily to stand by these totem poles to take her picture.  This is how she stood.  I thought it was funny that she didn't look at the camera...

Lily's princess cake.  She LOVED this after she was able to look at it for a while.

She kept peeking as I was making it so finally I just let her come take a look.

Playing with the new playdoh set with Ollie after school.  It was a cookie set so they made me some delicious treats!

Playing outside with the new sand toys.  She had a great busy dirty day.  :)

Halloween

Frosting cookies and decorating them

Claire loved the frosting

Lily just couldn't wait to eat hers!

Ollie took his time and decorated all his cookies before deciding which one he wanted to eat first.

One day I put this in Ollie lunch.  Inside is a juice box.  I'm glad that he's not too cool to have fun with.  :)

One day I dressed the girls up as mummies.  They loved it!  I didn't wrap Claire's head because I knew she wouldn't like it.  They loved showing Papa their scary noises.

Carving the pumpkin.

I love kids' fascination with the inside!  I look forward to carving the pumpkin all year so I can watch my kids enjoy it.  :)

Cinderella, Harry Potter, and a lady bug at the ward trunk-or-treat.  Mom and one day old Katie missed the fun.

Halloween night. 

I tried to get a picture of each kid by the pumpkin.  Claire refused to get out of Lily's picture.  :)

More Misc. Pictures

Claire has been going through a wonderpets phase.  She loves to sleep with her friends.

General conference weekend...  We taped a bunch of brown paper to the floor for the kids to color on.  I suggested they draw a city and get the cars out and play...  no luck.  The activity only kept them quiet for about 10 minutes.  :)

Another conference weekend activity.  We made colored sugar cookie dough and then made fun cookies with it.  The kids LOVED this activity and they loved eating their creations.

The finished cookies

A preschool activity that we did for snack after Ollie got home from school.  We stuck spaghetti noodles in some floam and then sorted fruit loops by colors.

Ollie has got to be the best big brother ever.  He loves to do activites like this with his little sisters.

Great practice for Claire's hand/eye coordination.  She did really well and then after a while she just wanted to eat the fruit loops.

Yet another preschool activity.  We did this one day when Ollie had the school day off.  We learned about primary and secondary colors and then painted and practices mixing the colors to get new colors.

Painting is ALWAYS a huge HIT with our kids.  Nothing like a colorfull mess.  :)

Ollie loves art!

Lily's Birthday Trip

We have a family tradition of taking our kids on a special day with just Mom and Papa for their fifth birthday.  Lily got to go to Dallas and see the musical "Pinkalicious".  The weather was stormy on the way up.  We didn't want to stop for lunch because we worried we might be late for the show so we had some fast food in the car.  Lily loved the happy meal.  We got to the theatre early enough to take some pictures.  Spencer commented how he had never seen so much pink in his life.  :)  Lily loved the show!  After the intermission they had the kids who were having birthdays come up and we sang to them.  Lily enjoyed it!  On the way home we stopped at Logan's steakhouse.  Lily remembered going to a steakhouse before and had been asking recently if we could eat at the place where you throw the peanut shells on the floor. 

Lily got a new pink dress

Telling us she's turning five

Coloring in the car (Thanks Cathy for the new coloring book and watching our other kids!)

Lunch in the car

Lily as Pinkalicious

Papa bought Lily a pretty crown

Waiting for it to start

Eating a cupcake during intermission

We sure had fun!

Dinnertime

Lily showing her cupcake that she got during intermission (out of order... sorry)