Frog Party

It has been a LONG day and this mom is beat, but I have a few quiet moments to blog, since EVERYONE hit the hay early.

Today we had some of the family over for a birthday celebration for Ash.

We had a frog theme for our little "Prince Charming"

We all love to have our loved one over, whenever we can!

We think everyone enjoyed their Kalua and Rice

And a chance to break the FROG pinata

Ash enjoyed some playtime with his cute cousin, Kaiya

But even more...
He LOVED his cake!
At first he just stared at it, not sure what to do
But once he just dove into it, he thought that was pretty tasty stuff!
(didn't care so much for ice cream-but maybe it was just
a little too cold for those baby fingers!

Here was the FROG cake mommy made.
We also had green, frosted cupcakes WITH a plastic frog on top
which the kids all loved!
(the cake alone would never feed a crowd of about 40)
this cake was actually pretty fun to make, much easier than the princess castle cake I made last year, for Ame. It was chocolate w/mint frosting.
**We even found fruit roll-ups WITH flies, for the tongue**

I like to check out coolcakes.com for good ideas

Once again Ash...we love you and can't believe you have already been apart of our family for a whole year! Where has the time gone???

Progress

Quinn and his brother spent about 6 hours working on the playset. Notice this box...1 of 3. I would say THAT is about how much

progress was made on the set up. Here's is how far they got
And here are some random other parts that got put together.

Quinn's brother coming up was the motivation for Quinn to work

on this thing (and the fact that he finally had some free time).

Now that the work week is starting again, maybe QUinn will be

hiring a "handy man" to come finish the job!

(too bad my dad isn't around to BE that handy man.

We could sure use you about now dad!!!!!!!)

Randomness

We bought these kites quite a while ago and Mom FINALLY took the kids to fly them. It was just a breezy day, so we had some good luck getting the kites to stay in the air.

They also took several "nose-dives".
Our neighbor, a real cute kid, Anthony (8) came and helped Kaipo fly his kite.
Kaipo was very proud to do it himself

Here are the obvious choices for kites

When downloading pics from my phone I found several pics I had forgotten

that I had actually taken.

This is Ame and her cousin Olivia. They look the most alike.

They are a year and 1 month apart

My BIG boy enjoying the nice weather AND his bike

NOTHING cuter...

baby feet WITH flip flops on

I LOVE them BOTH!!

Kaipo saying hello to the Easter bunny @ Walmart

Ame was too shy to go say hello...she SAID he was a stranger

Ame's phone pictures

So here are just a few of the MANY unexpected pictures taken by little miss poser. She takes my phone ALL the TIME, to listen to music AND obviously take pictures. There were lots more, mostly blurry ones, that were erased. Now my phone at least has a lot more memory!

She actually did get a few good shot

of the boys

What a face!

That's my wierdo girl!

Oh what a day...

What is the day like for a little boy who just turned 1? It actually started the night before with a few presents,

because Daddy wasn't going to be able to be home until later at night

ON my birthday.

I think this bike is way cool
This activity table is pretty fun too
But this one is the BEST!

It entertains me AND my siblings for quite awhile

While I was napping this morning my brother and sister got to have a play date.

Their friends mom (the same ones that were suppose to come to the Dino Park with us)

was pretty sick still, so my mommy invited the kids over to play.

This is Ame's friend, Lindy.

And Kaipo's friend Casen-they love frozen gogurt!

Ame and Lindy made me some cookies, for my birthday,

in the easy bake oven

After Ame went to Hula lessons, we got chinese take out for dinner

(I love chow mein noodles),

and then we had donuts for dessert.

I'd say these things are REALLY tasty!

My mommy is making a cake for my birthday party...I can't wait to try that.

My mommy ordered me this DVD and it actually arrived in the mail today!

What a coincidence, one more gift for my birthday.

So we had a little "movie night" before bed.

I think I will like watching this one!

***Happy Birthday, to our not so baby Ash***

We hope you know how much we love you!

We can't believe how quickly you have grown up and that you are already one!

We hope your day was an extra special one,

because YOU are definitely so special to us!!

Love - Daddy, Mommy, Ame and Kaipo

Dino Park

The kids and I had a fun day today.

We have been talking about going to the Dinosaur Park (in Ogden) for awhile,

and finally made plans to go. Unfortunately our friends that were going to go with us, got sick and couldn't come, but there was no way the kids were going to wait for another day.

The weather was perfect-sun/clouds and low 60's! These were robotic dinosaurs. They were REALLY cool.

It even captured Ash's attention.

I was amazed at how realistic and "in action" these dino's looked.
Ame taking a "sneak peek" at this one's bones.
Ash loved climbing on all the reptiles

I don't know a lot of the dinosaur names (except for the common ones)

But I do remember this ones name is GIGANTOSAURUS

There were lots of caves and bones to explore inside

This is typical of most pictures I capture...

Ame posing and Kaipo always in action & never looking at the camera

Ame wanted to be like lazy (no make-up and a hat) mommy today,

and sport the side braid

What a fun filled day exploring with my kids!

Doesn't get much better than that...

only if daddy were with us!

Good Family Times

Saturday was a fun day. We had a BBQ and then we had an easter egg hunt with all the cousins, in QUinn's family. Of course the hunt itself only last maybe a couple of minutes, but there is more prep time put into it. The parents each brought 10 or more filled eggs/per kid and then the older cousins hid them, for the younger ones. Some of the eggs were even filled with money!
When Ame got to her cousins house (on the left) and saw they were wearing their easter dresses, she was begging me to go ALL THE WAY home and get hers. Of course that didn't happen, so luckily they had some extras for her to get all dressed up in!

I would like to say this is OUR kids playing on this play set, but its not.
The EASTER BUNNY brought this swing set to our house. Unfortunately he didn't assemble it, so it is sitting in 3 VERY LARGE boxes in our garage. Hopefully daddy can find the time, energy and help to get it set up sometime soon! It will be SOO nice AND convenient to have this in the backyard to entertain the kids all summer!!!

Easter moring breakfast...CANDY!

Ash loves his little golf club

Ame is showing off the candy lipgloss she got

Unforunately we were running late (as usual-no matter how far in advance I start getting EVERYONE ready is always seems to end up this way) so we didn't get very good pictures before church

Here's my boys in blue & yellow

and me and my girl

Hope you had a happy and enjoyable Easter.

And as Ame so sweetly said...

(my mom just reminded us of this remark

Ame made a few years ago)

that Jesus always lives in our hearts