It's A Luau! (Is that spelled right??? oh well)

To celebrate Zoie's birthday we invited a few friends over and had a Luau party. It was really cute. Although, 30 min before the party, we had a torrential downpour, with HUGE hail. It was so wierd,(hail is not super common in Florida) but I wanted to cry because I had planned for everyone to be outside for the party. Fortunately, the guests still came and were very understanding. The rain finally did stop and we were able to go outside, and the guests even helped to hang the lanterns and light the torches.

For food we had, what else? Hawaiian pizza. Not really though, it ended up being plain cheese or pepperoni, but that was the idea. Zoie liked it, so that's all that mattered.

I saw a really cute idea on the internet to put confetti in the pinata along with candy, but I didn't really think it through because there was confetti pieces everywhere. In all the kids' hair, on their faces, in the carpet, and tracked all over the house. I am still finding little pieces of it when I vacuum. But it was cute... oh the sacrifices we make to do cute things for our kids.

Let there be CAKE.....Everywhere!

Happy Birthday Zoie!

Zoie turned one!Time flies (sigh).She had a good time opening her gifts, with some help from daddy.

Her favorite was probably her new Cinderella chair. She carries it all around the house.

This is her birthday cookie. She really enjoyed it, but don't worry, we didn't skip the cake. The cake (and the mess) came later...

Fun Times at the Pool

We had a fun BBQ at Will's pool with the fam, and believe it or not, every now and then we get a visitor. (sniff--sniff) My friend from high school Stacy and her son Reece came to visit.
Aidan was all tuckered out and slept through all the fun. Poor guy.
Nolan is doing really well learning to swim. So far....
Nolan loves to hang out with his Uncle Will and Aunt Keri.

Happy Birthday Aidan!

We had a pirate party for Aidan's birthday this year. It turned out really cute. My camera wasn't working well though so I don't have as many pictures as I would have liked.


I made my first attempt at a homemade birthday cake. (It is a pirate ship in case you can't tell). I think it's not too bad for my first try.

Present time. SCORE!!!!

Yes, I am the birthday boy, so I can do what I want, including make a mess of myself.

Easter 2007

It has been a while since I have updated our post. (Sorry) But now I am FINALLY getting to it and playing catch up. Heading all the way back to April, we hosted the family Easter dinner at our house this year. The kids had a great time on their easter egg hunt (Zoie was sleeping though, so she missed out on the fun.)
I am trying to do this quickly so I won't write much just pictures for now.