Wizard Sarah Puzzle

This was the puzzle that the WIZARDS had to find in the scavenger hunt and then put together.... I sent this picture to SAMS club and had them make a puzzle for me... it was super cute!

13 Girls came for a 13th Birthday Party!!

You would think a girl party would be so proper and civilized....

But check out these crazy girls having a goop fight... which I didn't plan.  They had to pick stuff out of the goop - and then it turned into this!!!

Now my world is over as I know it.... I have a teenager!!!  We had to celebrate this momentous occasion with a CRAZY party, of course!  Check out Sarah's blog for the details of the fun games we played.... she takes all my ideas for blogs and puts them on her blog first!!  In reality... my life is completely revolved around my kids.... so our blogs really would have the same stuff!  The party really was fun... and having Sarah's friends over was great!  It is such a relief to really enjoy and like her friends.... I like to tease them that they are my friends because I really do have fun with them.  

The cutest part of the planning was the scavenger hunt that ended with the teams needing to put together a puzzle that ended up being Sarah as a wizard and pirate!  She didn't know about this and I created the funniest picture of her with my digital scrapbooking program!  So funny... and she liked the surprise.

Well - I am glad to have last week behind me... I also got to video the Miss Pride of Vista contest the same day as the party and I feel like I am recovering still!  I am getting a different sort of appreciation for pageants... I tended to stereotype the girls that would do pageants before... but realize now there are some valuable lessons they can learn in preparing for the pageant.  I still feel it comes down to looks and I feel sorry for the losers... :(

Daddy Daughter Dance

Notice Marks Tie - he looks like he is really getting jiggy with it!!! :)


Mark got to take Chloe on her first DATE!!!  With Daddy!! It was soooo cute - they had so much fun and I loved seeing her have such a good time with her daddy!  I was at the dance the whole night (and before helping set up)  taking pictures (the posed kind you get at dances) and never got to even take a bathroom break - so I never got the chance to take pictures of them - luckily a friend got these!

Disneyland!

My mom told me i had to post something on her blog. "Too Busy" to do it herself. :) We just went to Disney land on Friday the 13th! I was so scared that i would die on a ride or something. It was raining all day, how unlucky. We didn't bring Chloe with us, because we knew she would not cooperate in the rain. It was super fun. Here are a couple pictures from our day. - Sarah:)

       Us on Space Mountain!

Us getting off of Splash Mountain while it was raining! Dad, of course, is on his phone!

SMILE!

Yes - This is what my kids do when I say 'SMILE' - think they had a little too much sugar!! :)  We were at the ice cream parlor at Disneyland!! 

Carter's Birthday - the BIG 10 - double digits!

I can't believe my little boy is getting so old... he was the cutest baby - with the cutest dimples.... and now when I look at him he is like a little man.  He had the "COOLEST" birthday party EVER! Mark took Carter and a few of his friends in the MOTORHOME down to the SUPERCROSS!!  They got to go in the pits and meet some of the riders and check out the bikes.  They partied in the parking lot - sloppy joes, soda & cake - and opened presents down there too!!  I have to admit - as far as a party goes - this was very cool.  And I LOVED IT because I just had to get the boys ready and loaded and waved goodbye to them as they drove down the road!  Mark had a great time, too!  Definately the easiest party FOR ME that we have ever done!!

Cute Purse Idea!! :)

This is a super cute purse a girl at church has - I want to try to recreate this!!  Coming from a girl who is definately a beginning sewer (is that even the right word???  I mean so-er NOT SU-WER!! :) ) this is a big project.  Sarah & I just completed quilts that we made out of Grandpa's shirts - and we have a couple pairs of his jeans left for this project!!!  Update coming soon.....