Saturday, April 19, 2014

Tulip Festival

I just love spring! It is my favorite season. We stopped by Thanksgiving Point today to see the tulips, and they were so beautiful!

They had these cool giant balloon flowers by the entrance

Evie was really into posing for pictures today


Sam was also very cooperative for a surprising number of photos!




I loved these little purple flowers! 






I think Koi are so beautiful - well, maybe except for when they are climbing all over each other to try to get the fish food!





Look at these cute Dutch children


Happy tulips









Evie bomb

Nothing was going on on the stage, so Evie and Sam decided to do a dance




Friday, April 18, 2014

Evie's Birthday Party

We had a little birthday party for Evie on Saturday. It was during spring break, so several friends were gone on vacation, but we still had a nice little group. She wanted a Frozen themed party.

We made some tissue paper snowflakes to put on the sliding door. The colorful ones looked pretty cool. I'll have to make more of those next time.

We hung some of Mom's snowflake ornaments from the chandelier

We started the party by decorating some snowflake picture frame ornaments with jewel stickers


Then we played "pin the nose on Olaf". I must not be very good at covering their eyes, because a surprising number of kids just "happened" to put the carrot in the exact right place! Hehehe.



Next we played the "make a snowman" game, where they got in teams of two, and one would wrap the other in toilet paper and decorate them like a snowman. Then they would switch. Nora was my demo snowman when I was showing them how it worked



Our first batch of snowmen!

Breaking out of the TP!



Our second batch of cute snowmen

Next we played "Don't Eat Pete" with a board I had made with the Frozen characters.


Ohhhh! The suspense!


After the games, each child got to decorate their own cupcake. We had blue and white frosting, mini marshmallows, blue sprinkles, and blue glitter gel.




Singing to the birthday girl


Next, we went outside to play and blow bubbles while listening to the Frozen soundtrack

It was a little windy, so the kids discovered they could dip the wand in the bubble solution, and just hold it out in the air, and the wind would make a big stream of bubbles! 

Opening a present

We finished up with some coloring pages