Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Happy 5th Birthday Fionn!

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 Rainbow cupcakes

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 Rainbow Cake

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 The rainbow table of goodies

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 Fionn getting sung too

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 6 layer rainbow cake

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The Birthday Girl and pirate boy

For Fionn's 5th birthday she requested a Rainbow Unicorn party. She invited some friends from school as well as some playgroup friends and we had a wonderful party. I wish I had gotten more photos, but we has pin the Horn on the Unicorn, Decorate your own Unicorn horn (frosting and sprinkles on ice cream cones), a relay race to dress an adult up in funny dress up clothes, a pinata and a craft table. Boy were were tired by the end of the 2 hour party. The birthday girl had a blast though.












Fall 2012

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 Pony rides for the kids

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 Fionn set up this bobby trap to try and catch monsters. No monsters were caught so more traps are being created.

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Bike rides at the marsh next to were we live.

Pirate Day

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Every year we celebrate "Talk like a Pirate Day" on September 19th.
The night before the kids leave The Great Pirate a plate of cookies and a glass of wine and in return he leaves them a treasure map. This year they were a little better at reading the map and were quickly able to find the treasure chest which contained a few toys and treats. 


Early September 2012

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 Leaves are so much fun!

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 Checking out the big fish that were in the pond.

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 This is one of the kids favorite parks. They call it the Spinny park since it has all kinds of toys that spin. And Fionn is wearing a dress that I wore as a little girl (my grandma made).


Redwoods

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 Fairy Tait. His favorite thing to say is "Bippty Boppity Boo...Dog" and turn you into a dog.

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 Hiking at Lady Bird Johnson Grove. A wonderful hike for kids!

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 Wolf man


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Sunday, November 18, 2012

First Day of School

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End Aug

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 A walk through Sequoia Park

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 The kids first time on a mini roller coaster. Tait loved it.

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End of Summer 2012

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 In August we made the drive up to Portland OR to visit some friends we have up there. It was a long drive but the kids did great and they enjoyed seeing some friends that we don't get to see often. While we were up there we visited the wonderful Children's Museum they had. Fionns favorite area was getting to do her own face paint (above) and the stage. While Tait loved getting to pretend to drive a bus (below) and an ambulance. The kids have already been asking when we can go back.

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 On our way home from Oregon we stopped at the Great Cats World Park. The kids had a gun time getting to see all the Big Cats, and a few of the cats were eager to get a closer look at the kids.

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Dress up fun