Claire is One!

 

TOTAL PHOTO OVERLOAD!!!  

Baby girl celebrated in style at her winter wonderland birthday party!  Chris worked his you-know-what off to complete our basement renovation so we could host all these people, and it turned out fantastic and was the perfect space to celebrate in.  And while the cake was a-dorable, black frosting was sooooo much worse than the red James was covered in on his first birthday.

Claire's Dress: Etsy seller KK Children Designs
Printables: Etsy seller Gwynn Wasson Designs
Cake: Deerfields Bakery

James turns Five!

For James' 5th birthday we held a Willy Wonka themed party at a local chocolate shop.  We started by delivering golden ticket invitations to all his friends from the neighborhood, but first James got to open his.

At the party there were three different chocolate making activities, so of course they all needed their own Wonka aprons to protect their clothes.

The first activity was a chocolate pizza...

 

Next were chocolate lollipops...

And finally chocolate covered pretzels...

All of these went home with the kids in their own take-home box.

For lunch they had pizza and Fizzy Lifting Drinks (Jones Soda), and completed the afternoon with chocolate cake. 

And this is what 10 kids will do after pumping them full of chocolate and candies...

James was a good host and handed out the goody bags to each of his guests (which included an assortment of Willy Wonka candy...because they didn't get enough already).

Happy Birthday Buddy! 

Wonka printables purchased from Etsy seller Serendipity Soiree.

Chris Catch Up

We celebrated Chris' 33rd birthday (in May) with a trip to the Morton Arboretum. 

He scaled mountains (or rocks)

Crossed treacherous waters full of...tadpoles

tadpole hunter

spider(boy)

we got lost in the maze...again (3 times and I still can't find my way through)

Claire did was she does best, hang out and be cute!  

And then she pooped one of those poops that went everywhere (literally, everywhere, including on me), and it was time to go home!  

I baked a cake the size of Texas:

and Chris got exactly what he wanted!

In other non-birthday news, Chris was on the development team for a new oatmeal product, and it is yum!  Go out and buy some if you haven't already.

And in between playing with James non-stop and creating new oatmeal, I keep him busy with an endless number of projects, like this:

One of these days I'll run out of things for him to do...maybe not!