March around our house.

Miles is now almost as big as the girls, but they still want to hold him on their laps all the time.

 Miles started with a sippy cup, mostly chewing but just starting.

 The girls were playing while I was taking care of Miles in the other room.... and this is what I came out to.  They told me it was their train and they were packing for a tip.  Looks like their learned their awesome packing skills from their dad. :)  

 Miles is now rolling everywhere as a mode of transportation and he is constantly getting himself stuck.  

Mesa SPARK party

This weekend was the Mesa SPARK festival. This seems to be a great opportunity to put all the weird artistic people on display for the public (kind of like going to a people zoo). Everyone had a great time with crafts, games, and many different things to see.

Hadley made a little dragonfly from pipe cleaners (not pictured yet, this is the pre shot).

Allie and Hadley both got a chance to color part of the giant wall mural. They even managed to stay in the lines (mostly at least). 

 There was a crazy bicycle carousel type thing that the girls had to experience. The bikes had horses on them kind of like a real carousel, but it was driven by people power!

I mentioned ALL the girls had to experience it, right?

Good thing since they needed lots of peddle power!

We all made music on some very strange drums.

We got to play with the insect people (see how all the crazies were on display).

The girls really liked the butterfly girl.

The bumble bee was very friendly.

Miles got to come along too, and he had a great time being outside.

With all that to see and do, the highlight of the day for the girls was still the stream that runs through the park! They kept asking to get in the water and at the end we finally let them. 

Fun was had by all!

Miles ~ 6 Months

Miles does not want to sit still anymore!  He now sits by himself and is a happy little guy.  He was waking up only once a night, until this tooth decided to show up.  Man, he is not a good teether - waking up like 4-6 times a night!  You can see his cute little tooth in one of the pictures below.  The girls just love him still and he is a joy in our lives!

6 Month Stats:

Weight: 20 lbs 9 oz 80th %

Length: 28 inches 90th %

Head: 42 cm  95%

Sea Life Aquarium

The children and I decided to venture out to the aquarium on our own to see some awesome sea life.  The girls were so excited about all of the exhibits, especially the ones where you could pet the star fish.  

Viewing bubbles are always awesome - you get to be surrounded by some fish!

 Here was our attempt at a cool shot by the big viewing window.  Not so easy anymore with 3 wiggly kids!

Luckily I did find some cute turtle babies being hatched and was able to take them home with me!

At the end there is a tunnel you get to walk through and be totally surrounded by water and fish.  I think those sharks in the back ground wanted to come and eat us.

We had to end the day in the mouth of a huge shark!  AHHH!  Actually, going through the aquarium with 3 kids was not the easiest thing by myself, but we sure had fun.

Miles' first food

Miles got to try some oatmeal for his first food... and ate it all up.  Things can only get tastier from here!

A Frozen 5th Birthday Party

Allie turned 5 and all she wanted was a Frozen birthday party and and Elsa dress.  Well, this was great, except every other little girl wanted the exact same thing in this country.  Every Disney store was out of any and everything Frozen.  I called some Disney stores looking for the little figurines and asked what day they got deliveries so I could call to see if they got anything new.  One store in Scottsdale said that they could not tell me because they had to keep their delivery drivers safe.  I guess some people were attacking the drivers for Frozen items.  Crazy!

I ended up making her Elsa dress with a detachable cape so she could run around and not trip on it if she so desired.  It is work all the time, along with the song Let it Go.  Constantly. 

 A couple days before the party we went out for ice-cream at Baskin Robins which is right next to Fry's grocery store.  At the end, I sent Mike over to Fry's to get some blue ice-cream for the party and while he was there he found a full set of figurines from Frozen.  Disney was out but the grocery store had them?  Whatever.  We were just glad we found some.  I also went to the effort of making a cake from scratch that was blue and had strawberries in-between the layers, and all they ate was the ice-cream and a few bites of cake.  Next time I just need to do some cupcakes from a box and call it good.

 We played pin the nose on Olaf and had all the the girls we invited wear their favorite princess dress.

 We decorated some foam crowns with jewels and stickers and played some princess games

 We had a snowball fight with paper and danced to music.

 All the beautiful girls 

 Opening presents was like this... with each present.  They also all wanted to sit by Allie all day, fighting to be right by her.  Makes a girl feel special.

 We celebrated her birthday the day before her actual birthday so on Sunday we had the traditional balloons in her room which Miles thought was pretty awesome.  Entertainment for days.

We love our Allie girl and am amazed who she is becoming.  She is friends with everyone, had such exuberance for life and loves learning.  I can't believe she will be in Kindergarten next year!

Sunday Temple Pictures!

Today we went to the Gilbert temple dedication and our neighbors were so kind and volunteered to watch our kids so we could go together!  With no church for the kids to go to, they wanted to get out of the house, so we went over to the Mesa temple and took some cute pictures.  I love our family!