Nyah's 9th Birthday

For Nyah's birthday she chose to go to Makutu's Island with the family (this is a non-party year for her) .  This place is awesome!  It is an indoor playground with places to clime and slide everywhere!  

Jeremy and the girls went last year while I was at Girls Camp and I'd heard a ton about it all year long.  I have to say it was as impressive as I had heard.  The kids went screaming & running in all directions as soon as we got there. 

 Jeremy kept up with the girls, climbing way up into the tubes a few stories up & sliding down gigantic slides (he's such a fun dad!).   I even went on a slide pregnant and all...well it was a tiny slid, but hey Cali was impressed. 

I mostly spent my time trying to catch pictures of all the fun. To bad

 running kids + low light = poor pictures quality

The birthday girl was the hardest to catch (as usual).  In most pictures she appears as a blurry smudge :) 

Here is the best of the pictures we took!

We had a great time celebrating Nyah's birthday with her!  

Nyah we are so glad you were born to our family!!!

Lovely Mornings

These were the types of mornings I lived for as a child.  Slow, sleepy day beginnings with the sun just peeking up.  Tip toeing downstairs, trying not to wake up my parents.  Early morning cartoons.  Lying across sofa and floor with wild hair and tired eyes.

I love to see my own girls in these early hours.  I can't help but remember how lovely a Saturday morning is to a child.

!yaD slooF lirpA

April Fools Day is always a big deal at our house...though half the time it is forgotten until the last minute.  Such was the case this year.  

Being on a Sunday Jeremy & I teamed up and toilet papered the girls rooms while they ate breakfast.  When the rooms were complete I pulled the frustrated mom routine and said the girls must straiten up their messy rooms right away!  

Nyah insisted her room was picked up so she was surprised at my insistence that it was in fact in disarray.  

Jeremy hid upstairs with the camera to catch the girls reactions to their new decor.  

These are our kids, so of course they loved the surprise :)

After Jeremy & I went downstairs to work up another little trick, the girls took the liberty of toilet papering our room.  They need to work on their sneekyness because it sounded like elephants partying in our room as they jumped and ran about.  

We faked a great surprised face when they revealed what they had done.  They are too cute!

The last of our pranks was cherry jello in cups with straws to look like juice.  This was brought out at dinner time.  The girls flipped out when they couldn't drink from their cups. Then when I attempted to dump Sade's drink over her head... and somehow she stayed dry, the girl burst into screams and giggles.

It was a terrific April Fools Day :)