Twins Baby shower

I have been planning a baby shower for my good friend, Kadee, who was pregnant with twins. We both found out we were pregnant at the same time, due almost the same day! It has been fun, she lives in Lehi so I haven't been able to see her. But I wanted a good excuse to go spend some time together, so I asked if I could do a shower for her. It has been so much fun finding ideas and getting ready for it. It really helped January go by for me.
I found the cutest idea (on pinterest, my new addiction!) for a Thing 1 and Thing 2 baby shower. These little onesies will have to wait several months....

 

I love the diaper cake idea, I recieved one when I had Megan, and thought it was the best idea ever. I have given several since then. They are so easy and fun to make.

 

The cupcakes look cute... I burned the bottoms though! and just a note if anyone makes these. I used cotton candy for the crazy blue 'hair' topper, but it totally melts into the frosting, so don't put it on until just before! We also had a yummy blue punch. It was kind of hard to find a recipie, but here's what we ended up with: 1 pkg. Berry Blue Koolaid, mixed according to packet, with almost 2 liters of sprite (enough to make 1 gallon altogether). Poured over pineapple sherbet. It was good!

 

All the guests had their pictures taken in a Dr. Suess hat/wig, and signed/wrote comments in a Dr. Suess book.

 

It turned out to be a fun shower. Kadee has awesome friends and family I was very impressed. The hardest part though was Kadeee wasn't able to be there. She delivered her twins at 33.5 weeks on Friday morning! Hunter and Preston were both a little over 4 lbs, and about 18 inches long. Poor Kadee had been in and out of the hospital and labor since Monday. Both the babies are doing quite well considering. They seem to be pretty healthy and strong. It was amazing to see them, and think about what my baby looks like right now. They were very precious. Kadee will probablly be able to go home from the hospital today though she is very tired. She has great family and friends that will help her right now, I am so grateful for that. The babies will have to be in the NICU for 3-5 weeks learning to eat. I feel so thankful that it all worked out for them, and will keep praying for the challenges ahead. I can't imagine the craziness of twins, and the heartache of leaving them in the NICU. Kadee is strong (she is a NICU nurse too)and she will be(is) an awesome Mom. I'm so glad she's my friend! :)
I really don't like this picture... but I am thankful for my health and that she's still cooking for a few more weeks!

 

Megan's 6th Birthday

We celebrated Megan's 6th birthday last week on Jan. 6. She had a lot of fun and got spoiled rotten! We love having Megan in our family, she keeps us laughing and having fun. She is learning so much at school and getting taller by the day.
David and Mommy took some cinnamon doughnuts into her class of Friday for a treat, her teacher gave her this cute birthday crown and they sang Happy Birthday and played heads up 7up. Then we picked up Anna, and one of her friends sang "Happy Birthday to you, You live in a zoo, you look like a monkey and you smell like one too!" Megan and Anna thought that was really fun, and it was repeated several times....

 

We invited our cousins Dakota and Courtney to come over for a sleepover on her birthday, and had lots of fun! We made penguin pillow pets, watched Mr. Popper's Penguins, ate pizza, played with Squinkies (bday present from gma) and played Just Kidz dance on the wii. Lots of fun!

 

Saturday night we celebrated with more family at Jumpin Jive'n in Vernal. Megan's cousin Ethan has a bday on the 8th so it was a double party! The kids loved the bouncy slides and houses, lots of presents and a big rainbow sucker cake. It was so much fun, thanks everyone for coming!

 

Spoiled rotten!! She had to play with something Saturday night at 10 when we got home.... good thing our church is at 11 now. ;)

 

Ice Fishing

We had fun Ice Fishing yesterday morning at Brown's Draw. We didn't have any luck there though... not even a bite!
The kids had fun getting out of the house and trying out Daddy's new tent.

 

Anna brought along her new little Lalaloopsy from Christmas, so she could fish too!

 

And here was some entertainment on the ice...

 

 

After we tried our luck for a few hours, we went home for a nap and Daddy went to Sandwash. He almost gave up there... but then he snaged this pretty 20 incher. He had a fight, but got it in, along with its mate ;)

 

 

This was Monday's catch at Starvation. It is so nice for Wayne to have this week off of work. We have enjoyed relaxing at home and getting some projects done too.

 

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone! We are having a wonderful Christmas and hope that you all are/do too.
We had to wake our kids up at 7:30 this morning (I know we really are blessed with good sleepers ;)) We had Sacrament Meeting at 9 and Daddy had to be there at 8:30, so we just saw what Santa brought, had breakfast and got ready.
Here is what Christmas mornning looked like at our house:

 

 

 

Love this picture, it is so nice to have Christmas on Sunday! Church was wonderful with lots of Christmas music and spirit. I know Wayne and I are a bit blurry, Anna is still a little wobbly at taking pictures! ;)

 

Opening Presents:
David couldn't wait! He started tearing in, until we sort of got him to take turns.. ;)

 

I had fun 'making' these Lalaloopsy outfits to match the girls dolls. They are loving them. I couldn't find some striped pants for Anna so I sewed some, and a little hot glue made some fun yarn hair (though Megan decided hers needed a haircut :))
David has been going wild with his drums! Anna got a paperjamz microphone and has been practicing for "the family concert", Megan also got a paperjamz guitar.
Wayne and I were also spoiled and have been having a nice day! The girls were so cute and wrapped us up a present: A bag of (Davids) cars and candy, and they made me a hair elastic holder out of toliet paper rolls (I've been missing elastics for a while....) and candy. Such sweet girls! :)

 

Ok I know I overuse ;) and :) but it really has been a happy day!!

Christmas Eve

We had a wonderful time with the Clayburn family at our annual Christmas Eve party. The kids always look forward to playing Bingo, and seeing their cousins, its a fun tradition. We barely fit on the loveseat anymore!

 

Anna wrote a cute letter to Santa and they all left him milk and cookies. The girls made each of the gingerbread cookies to represent themselves... so cute! Anna was really really hoping that Santa would write a letter back to her, so she left out a pencil and seperate paper just for him. She was so excited the next morning when she found a little note from him! What a nice Santa to take time to write it for her! ;)

 

The girls' dance group did a nice little production of the Nutcracker, it was so fun. And they got to dance with 2 of their cousins! ;)

 

Here are our Christmas cupcakes: Anna's Red Velvet, Megan's Gingerbread, and Mommy's Coconut. The girls each got to help make theirs, we had a "cupcake war" like the T.V. show. They had lots of fun, and came up with their decorations. I like Megan's decorations the best! But Mommy's wins for taste hands down!! :)

 

Breakfast with Santa

This year our ward had Breakfast with Santa. Wayne and I were both in Salt lake so Gma and Gpa Mecham came to the rescue and took the kids. They had a great time!
David kept going up to talk to Santa, but wouldn't sit on his lap.

 

 

 

Christmas Traditions

We have been having lots of fun getting ready for Christmas! Here is our little advent calendar, the kids each take turns putting something up each day.

 

We have been enjoying our Christmas books. This year we have some fun new ones! David's Christmas, Ready Freddy Crazy Christmas and the Bearenstien Bears The Joy of Giving.

 

We have been making lots of goodies! This week has been baking week for sure. We made cupcakes on Wednesday, cake pops on Thursday and Sugar cookies and gingerbread cookies today. :) The girls and I have had lots of fun playing 'cupcake wars' and 'cookie wars'.

 

I love being able to dress the kids up cute for the holidays, I even joined in the fun this year with a cute Christmas shirt of my own! ;)