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11.13.2009

Morgan Turns 3!

Yesterday was Morgan's 3rd birthday. We can't believe how fast time is going.

We are having her birthday party Saturday, but had to do a little celebration all day yesterday too.

In the morning, Todd got up and made her yummy blueberry pancakes with whip cream.

From Morgan's 3rd Birthday

Her first present of the day:

From Morgan's 3rd Birthday

Then when Todd came home from work, he brought her flowers! She was so surprised and happy. She kept making everyone hold them and smell them. She didn't even want to put them in a vase at first because she wanted to hang on to them.

From Morgan's 3rd Birthday

Some of her birthday presents

From Morgan's 3rd Birthday

Every 3 year old needs a Candy Land game!

From Morgan's 3rd Birthday

"Gippa" got her a card that plays "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" and she was dancing all around the room with it.

From Morgan's 3rd Birthday

Opening the final gift

From Morgan's 3rd Birthday

A retro kitchen:

From Morgan's 3rd Birthday

She was on the phone a lot that night

From Morgan's 3rd Birthday

She wanted a Chocolate Cake for her birthday

From Morgan's 3rd Birthday

Singing Happy Birthday

From Morgan's 3rd Birthday

Blowing out the candles

From Morgan's 3rd Birthday

Completely Daddy's Little Girl

From Morgan's 3rd Birthday

Even with chocolate on her face, she's so beautiful :)

From Morgan's 3rd Birthday

Uncle Scott stopped by...Brady is totally Scott's Mini Me

From Morgan's 3rd Birthday

Even in her jammies she wanted to wear her tiara

From Morgan's 3rd Birthday

11.03.2009

Jett's 10th Birthday Party

Jett wanted a Wii party so we had the living room set up for a Super Mario Smash Bros Brawl tournament and some prizes for the boys. He requested Oreo Cupcakes (Jane's recipe) and San Biagos pizza. YUM

From Jett's 10th Birthday Party

I found some cute cupcake toppers on ebay

From Jett's 10th Birthday Party

Todd had them play a game where they had to pick a character from the game and wear a name tag with that name. Then throughout the party they had to call each other by only their character's name.

From Jett's 10th Birthday Party

Jett was the winner of the tournament!

From Jett's 10th Birthday Party

Singing Happy Birthday

From Jett's 10th Birthday Party

Present Time

From Jett's 10th Birthday Party

The boys ended up playing outside, running around after only an hour of the Wii game playing. They were so cute having Nerf Wars!

From Jett's 10th Birthday Party

Ethan flying through the air

From Jett's 10th Birthday Party

Todd and Jackson watching the boys run around

From Jett's 10th Birthday Party

And Momo

From Jett's 10th Birthday Party

Halloween 2009

This year we dressed up the kiddos and headed down to Flipside for a pre-Halloween event. Trunk or Treat and a Spaghetti dinner.

Mimi wanted to take some pictures of the kids before hand.
Jackson was Captain America (a costume we got from Jane) I can't believe he actually kept his hat on.

From Halloween 2009

Morgan as Snow White

From Halloween 2009

And Jett was Snake Eyes from GI Joe

From Halloween 2009

Ready for dinner

From Halloween 2009

My Hero!

From Halloween 2009

Playing with dada

From Halloween 2009

Afterwards we went Trick or Treating in our neighborhood...just one street and Morgan got a lot of loot

From Halloween 2009

Jett's 10th Birthday

My little baby boy is 10 years old! Wow it flew by so fast. It was a week long celebration for him.

I made these invitations for his Wii Birthday Party. (actually I found the template free online, and Billie Jo and Kyle printed them out for me. I really just put them together :)

From Jett's Birthday Invites

On his birthday morning we had donuts made into the shape of a "10". He LOVES donuts.

From Jett's 10th Birthday

That evening before heading to Disneyland, he opened his presents:

From Jett's 10th Birthday

Ethan got this card for his birthday last year and Jett had mentioned he though it was so "cool". Todd remembered and went to find it for Jett. What a great dad!

From Jett's 10th Birthday

My boy :)

From Jett's 10th Birthday

Jett and I headed to Disneyland. He was so cute!

From Jett's 10th Birthday

It was all decorated for Halloween. This was space mountain:

From Jett's 10th Birthday

Jett was hiding down in his seat!

From Jett's 10th Birthday

He has to do this every time we go to Disneyland

From Jett's 10th Birthday

Star Tours was empty!!

From Jett's 10th Birthday

Literally we were the only ones in line

From Jett's 10th Birthday

Jett's been wanting this hat since last November and he was finally able to get it with a gift card from his Grandma Joyce. It was the LAST one they had.

From Jett's 10th Birthday

When we got home from Disneyland, Todd had these waiting for us on the porch. Morgan and him had fun carving while we were gone. He did amazing!

From Halloween 2009

Pumpkin Patch Fun

We took Morgan and Jackson to the Pumpkin Patch one day during the week. We just went to the local one since we didn't have much time but they had lots of fun stuff for kids.