Sarah is the Bomb!

Hey guys- my mom is a total quitter! She said that she doesn't like to blog anymore because i always write about the stuff we do! I really don't write about every little thing we do.... so she should be able to make at least 4 posts a month- no sweat! If you think she should get back into blogging you should leave some strongly worded comments on this thing! Maybe that will slap her back into shape!

One thing i know she would have said on this post is " Sarah is the coolest person in the world! She is awesome and totally amazing! No one is as cool as her!" =D

Well, maybe not.... but you get the point. 

I guess this post will be my mothers day present to her..... i don't exactly have a real present. =D (guilty)

We have to get this lady back into the blogging world!!! Who's with me!?

- Sarah

Kids are amazing...

Carter is so talented - can you tell??  He can actually take one eye at a time and move it left and right - it is actually pretty creepy!  But I am just so proud anyways... what mother wouldn't be?? He can even make his eyebrows crawl like a caterpillar - AND make his ears wiggle!!!  Now THAT is talent!!!

OK - so Julie Stainbrook took about 300 pictures of the kids - and being the loving mother that I am I can't decide which pictures to print for my wall!!  I  LOVE them ALL!!!  Seriously - but here are a few - I also sent an email out that connects to Julie's blog - she has a bunch on there that are super cute - as well as some other pictures of weddings and families that are just awesome - check it out.. I have her link on my blog too!

FINALLY!!!!

OK - Sarah has been giving me a hard time about not blogging enough....I tell her she is a blog-a-holic!!!  I'm lucky if I get 2 posts a month because I am just too busy!!!  Well - here is a picture from the yearbook that consumed my life for the past month!  It really was fun to create - but a lot of pressure!  I knew all year that there was a possibility that I would have to do the yearbook because the girl who was in charge of it this year was having health issues.  Sure enough - I found out in Jan that I would have to do the yearbook again this year!  But I really was happy to do it...so I thought I would post a page from the book - this page is the cover contest page and my kids both are represented on it!  Carter won the front cover contest and Chloe has her beautiful work displayed as a finalist!!

Sorry I've checked out for awhile.... it was for a good cause though!!! :)

Oh - is was a PIRATE theme this year - and it was super cute!

PIRATE Sarah Puzzle... Scavenger Hunt

I had this puzzle made for the scavenger hunt.  The girls had clues that led them to 6 different places with bags full of puzzle pieces - when the had them all they had to assemble the puzzle... first team done won!  I thought it was pretty cute!

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!