Hope's 1st Birthday

                                                                  Hope is one today.

The kids sang Happy Birthday to her before they left for school.  She smiled and danced.  She cried when they left for school. She has decided that being home alone with mom isn't as fun as being with her siblings.

We had a family and friends get together to celebrate her big day.

Hope had a blast opening presents.

She loved every gift and had to play with them all  (But the clothes weren't so exciting). Although, I think they are.

She loved the frosting and candy on the cupcake.  She all so enjoyed her ice cream cone.

We had a pinata for the older kids (thanks Spencers) .

The hanger broke after a few hits so Loren got creative.

And then the kids played and the adults talked.  And then darkness set in so everyone headed home.

Thanks for coming, everyone!!!

The kids did go back to school

Yeah, the kids are all back in school. Parker went to his first whole day of school and thought that it was awesome.  Ethan says that he has the greatest teacher in the whole school.  Zach is still getting use to Jr. High and 8 different classes.  Paige has already started to complain about home work which isn't  good sign.  I think that I only heard her complain about it 3 times the whole year, last year.  Braden is enjoys being a Junior but has already change his schedule twice.
I am loving the quieter house and time alone with Hope.  On the other hand, I don't enjoy all of the homework either.  5 kids in school=lots and lots of helping with homework.

Birthday time

Parker turned 7 yesterday. He wanted to have a lego themed party. He also wanted his cake to have fondant icing. He has been watching to much Cake Boss with Paige.  So I actually learned how to make fondant.

The cake din't turn out so great but Parker loved it, since he helped make it.   He wanted it to look like a red lego with the dots green.  I don't own great food coloring, it never turned red.

I made the second cake because I pulled out a confetti cake mix to make cup cakes with and it had fun icing pictures in it.  So I made a small cake and cupcakes.

All of the party games had something to do with Legos.

Knocking down the tower that the other team made with big marbles.

Pin the dot on the lego.

I asked Paige to find a blind fold. She decided a bucket would be fun.

Building lego creations with lego candy.

First day of Jr. High

Yesterday, Zach went to his first day of Jr. High.  The seventh graders get to go a day early so the can find their way around without the crowd.  The class officers are there to help them when needed.
Zach said that he only got lost twice and that was because he asked directions to a class.  The students told him the wrong directions.  He also said that he couldn't get his locker open but his locker partner (Josh) could.  So things were great.  Thank goodness he is a easy going kid or the day could have been a disaster.
Zach loved it.
Today will be the real test with all of the students there.  We will see what he has to say today.