Michaela's 6th Birthday!

Peanut's birthday fell on a Friday this year. She shared cupcakes with her kindergarten class, the had pizza with the family. After pizza we went out for ice cream and played at the park. She couldn't look happier, could she?! The library at her school has a Birthday Book Club. We paid $15 to donate a new book to the library, and they put this plate on the inside cover. The bookplate will stay forever and Michaela got to be the first one to check out the new book. It's such a great idea!

Here's a picture of the cool pizza we had for Michaela's birthday dinner...

Her party was on Saturday and we held it at Bouncin' Bears, which is exactly like Pump & Play if you've been there. She had 13 kids from school & church attend- a perfect number.

Michaela & Maryn

Michaela & Connor...

Reiley's 1st Birthday!

Our baby girl turned ONE on October 16!! She would like to thank her fans- I mean grandparents- for her new house. She (and Michaela) love to play with it! Where's the cake??!! She hated it, by the way. We got her a cute baby pumpkin cake which she quickly destroyed. A few minutes later though she just burst into tears. Skye tried to feed her some of the frosting, but she wouldn't have it.

Choir Concert

Skye had her first choir concert a few weeks ago. She's in the center of the back row. The choir did awesome!

The Butterfly Experiment

If you've never ordered a butterfly kit, I HIGHLY recommend it! It was so awesome to watch them grow and change! The caterpillars arrived in this cup and were just tiny little motionless things. Just a few days later they looked like this... A week or so later we had...
All 5 of the caterpillars turned into butterflies which we were able to release in the backyard...

This one sat on Skye's finger before flying away. It was so fun to watch them flutter around before taking off out of sight!

Butterfly #5 only made it this far. He didn't (couldn't?) fly like the others. So we named him Walker John and kept him in his cage until he lived out the rest of his little life. It was so cute to have a butterfly pet for a week :)