Birthday at Build a Bear!

Emma's 6th birthday was this week! I can't believe how quickly the time goes by. I decided to pick her up from school, take her to lunch, and then go to Build a Bear. I told her she was going to have a surprise and had to close her eyes until I told her to open them.

She was sooo surprised!!!

She chose a dog with cute bent ears. Here she is rubbing its heart and making a wish for her new friend! She just thought that was the best!

After the dog was stuffed and sewn up, she gave it a bath before picking out a cute outfit, complete with hairbows and red patent shoes.

Since we went in the middle of the day in the middle of the week, there was no one else there. She just had the best time and it was awesome to be able to take her and make her day special!! Can't wait for her K-5 graduation and then her birthday party later this week!!

Fun and Flirty at 30!!

.....well maybe not the flirty part :o) I turned 30 on Feb. 26th and my bff's planned an amazing surprise party for me!! They started planning a couple months ago and invited my family from Cali that I haven't seen in a couple years. I was completely surprised!! I can't believe so many people took time out of their week to celebrate with me...I am still overwhelmed with gratitude!! This is the only pic I got from the party because I was just too busy having fun!! The theme was Paris...for those of you who don't know, my heart's desire all my life is just to go to Europe and trapse around for a while :o) Here is the cake...just amazing! Everything was perfect!!! Thank you again to my girls!!!!

I had my family at my house for the weekend...my nephews (8 and 6) started building this tree fort...took them hours and it turned out great!

This is my great aunt, whom I love dearly, with the kids! They were watching some cartoons before bed!

Dear Uncle Branson with the boys putting together Legos. All those little pieces...

Eating dinner with my great aunt and my uncle.

My aunt brought cupcake goodies and Dayna was my little helper!!

I love winter and while the fam was here, we had a snow day!! They were supposed to fly out to CA on Sunday and their flight was cancelled due to the weather...they stayed with us for another 2 days...the boys loved the snow!! First time they had seen it!!

Here is my sister with my nephews!!

Random pic---we had a part of the tree out front crash down barely missing our car...that was bizarre!!

My baby turns 3...where has the time gone!

"Dayna bug" turned 3 last month. I love to see her grow everyday! She has always been a talker, with an amazing vocabulary. I love both my girls and can't believe how much they have grown. Birthday parties at Raganville have taken on a life of their own, full of fun traditions. For the past 2 years we have had costume parties and they are just so much fun. This party was no different, a princess party. Branson found a cutie pie Tinkerbell costume for Dayna and it was so adorable on her. Emma was Belle and Stacey, Dayna's friend, was Snow White. We painted nails and put on "makeup."

Dayna was so happy to be Tinkerbell!! She is still talking about it!

Every time she opened clothes or shoes, she gave this sideways look that was just too funny!!

This was her favorite present....given by Uncle Jonathan and Aunt Sarah!! She has slept with it every night since her party :o)

Here she is feeding her baby!! How sweet.