Caris's 3rd Birthday

My baby is 3. THREE, do you hear me?! It is sickening. If I could come up with a way to stop time, entirely, I would do so. I can barely stand to think about it.
Anyway, we had an awesome party....what else could we do? Aunt Katelyn came in town special, just for the occasion. And Chris traded birthdays with her to accommodate her guests. ("Thank you, daddy!!")
Here are the pics of our baby doll.




It was Princess themed....of course. This is the "cake".


And the setup.


Caris and Aunt Katelyn....Caris is eating her birthday gift from her brother.....a cinnamon bun. Dont ask me, he just showed up with it?!


You can also see my punch bowl in the background. Hand me down from Nanny and the first time we've gotten to use it!

We had pizza for lunch.....papa was a bit messy by the end.




She changed outfits about 5 times during the shindig. Her wings are getting a little old and pitiful.



She is 3!!



This is Caris telling Julia and Tori, "Stop messin' wif my TOYS!!!"


The new Tink outfit, with slippers and video....



The new coffee pot....we drink alot of coffee around here and Caris has been jealous for awhile. They dont make a lot of play kitchen coffee mugs. We got the Braun....it drips and makes noise and everything.


We love the crap out of this kid. She is terrific!!

Day at the Dam

Yesterday, with the sister and brother-in-law here in town, we had an afternoon at Cheatham Dam. The kids opted out of the swimming area, so we stuck to playground/sand pit and hot dog grilling. We really enjoyed it. The weather was beautiful, it wasnt too crowded and other than the flies buzzing our food it was all good. Poor Chris had to work all day though, so he missed the fun :-(

Barefoot in the sand.

Slide hair.

Walking with papa to see the ducks/geese.

The new haircolor sees the sun for the first time.

Skipping rocks.

Wearing a "probably unsanitary, but we tried not to think about it" found birthday hat. Go spiderman.

The whole famn damily....note my ever so photogenic face. Nice.

Snacks on a stick!!

Snacks on a stick, originally uploaded by Rowetopia.

There has been an insane amount of interest in my birthday on a stick from February, so I decided to post some more pictures, some previously unseen in public, so that the snacks can be more closely studied for better copy-catting...I am a big fan of copy-catting.


Going from right to left we have cheese cubes on a stick and green grapes on a stick. My sticks were purchased at Party City and look like these only much more colorful. They come in a multi color pack of about 20 for pretty cheap. Less pokey than the bamboo skewer. Other options would be chopsticks or the plastic swords for shorter "sticks". Or chop the sharp end off the bamboo skewer. Also, the cheese cubes were originally intended as "dinner" and were going to share their skewer with some little smokies. I then decided that the hot skewers would be a pain in my be-hiney so i quit that idea.


Here we have Rice Crispy squares cut into cubes alternated with marshmallows on a stick and then pretzel sticks rolled in white chocolate bark and then in some sprinkles. These are sprinkles look all fancy, but what they really are is all the little remnant sprinkles from the bottom of about 5 different bottles in my cabinet. This process uses a heck of alot of sprinkles so be prepared for that. Put the sprinkles on a plate for rolling. The Rice Crispy squares are the store bought ones because they seemed like they were more likely to stay together....and because i was too lazy to make the real ones.


There is not really a good picture of the cup on the far left, but this one and the top picture sort of show it. It is a combo cup. Some of the skewers are pink marshmallows alternated with white marshmallows. The plan was to paint Kirby faces on the pink ones, but honestly....i gave up on that one pretty quickly. The other one is the piece de resistance--the Milky Way on a stick. That's it....really. Just one on each stick. Snack size.

Click on any of the pictures for the flickr feed of more pics!!

The Liver-Lip 12th Birthday Extravaganza

IMG_6005, originally uploaded by Rowetopia.

Friday night we hosted a big fat slumber party to celebrate the Big Girl's 12th birthday. Everyone had a great time (i hope) and played an obscene amount of video games. It was very obvious the generation we were dealing with when they all piled into the van. In the car with me was 1 iphone (my only contribution), 3 ipod nano's and 6 game boy ds's. There was constant discussion of Link, Taylor Swift, Taylor Lautner and the Edward vs Jacob debate(Edward is way hotter says ME). Click on any of the photos to see the full photostream at flickr.




Tiramisu was served along with giant pizzas for a bit of an Italian food theme---also because the Big Girl does not like icing and therefore does not care much for cake. She does, however, love the crap out of some Tiramisu.





All the wild things in the bedroom...ignore the fact that my child's closet doors are not yet installed. Pretend you dont see that part.


Many, many hours logged with butts plastered to this couch...see controllers in hand.






Pizza time--flower headbands for party hats.






Yea, well, mom sort of forgot to get candles. I found this one in the bottom of the cake decorating drawer in the kitchen. It is an orange balloon....her alternative was a pine scented tea light. Anyway, tiramisu is not conducive to multiple candle support...too wiggly.






Yes, my gift bags matched the decorations.






Ipod touch...






Twilight board game...






Spastic, hyperactive group hug!!






This was the slumber part...yes, 5 girls in one queen size bed...figure that one out?!


Happy Birthday Liver Lip--you are awesome!! We love your old self very much!!