Easter 2012

I boiled almost 5 dozen eggs and then we did our annual egg dyeing with the Feigels. Between the two family's we dyed around 8 dozen eggs... The kids had a blast. We used kool aid for egg dye .. Tiffanie saw it on pinterest...it smelled really good and we got some nice vivid colors.

The Easter bunny hid all our bar boiled eggs and 60 plastic eggs. The kids had such a fun time. Gabby even searched because she wanted the eggs with the candy in them:)

After all our eggs were found and baskets were opened, we got ready and went to Santa Rosa to celebrate with my family we had a great time.

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Halloween Fun

Some Highlights of our Halloween and Pre- Halloween Activities...

Me holding Tatum on the tractor as she was scared to sit up there on her own:) Scarlette Grace, Karson and Graham at Stanley Lane Pumpkin Patch in Napa.  It is the perfect place to take the kidos for pumpkins and great photo op!  My camera battery was dead.. thank goodness Tiffanie brought hers!

Our pumpkins on the porch... Grahams is the far left one and Chad carved the Smith one at my request!

Cute Girl on a tractor

 and on another tractor!

Graham, Karson and Kaylyn staring at someones spooky decorations while we were out trick or treating! We trick or treated this year in our new neighborhood and it was sooo much fun.... one street in particular was super wild....  King st. ... it was so packed with kids and people it was amazing.

Me, Scarlette, Kaylyn ,Graham, Tatum and Karson trick or treating!

Gwen while carving pumpkins!

Graham busy at work carving his pumpkin... Love hat he has pumpkin all over his face:)

Elbow deep in pumpkin guts..this girl is not afraid to get messy!

Karson after he and his Daddy carved his pumpkin!

Pretending to eat the pumpkin guts!

My Crazy boy pretending to eat the guts!

Gwen pretending to eat the guts!

gabby blow drying the shirt she was making for school the next day... Don't you love my Ghetto Blow dryer!  I need a new one so bad.

Crazed pumpkin carver!

Tatum staying FAR FAR away from the mess... she wanted nothing to do with carving!

Cute girl!

Graham and Karson at the top of the hay pyramid at the pumpkin patch

Not sure why he was pouting here...he makes such a great pouty face.  I love this tractor!

Scarlette smelling the flowers at the pumpkin patch.

Cute girl on the cool tractor!

BFF's Scarlette and Tatum looking at the pig's.

Love this picture of Scarlette Grace!

Cutest kids ever!

He did not want Tiffanie to take his picture... He looks real cute though!

Tatum and Scarlette in the Wagon on the way back to our cars... we closed the pumpkin patch down!

Jen & Tiff's 1st Annual 4th of July Family Fun Day

That is what the invitation said... and actually it was a really fun party. Tiffanie's parents are ever so nice and let us have the party at their house. We planned lots of fun old fashion games .... it was a pot luck so we had lots of yummy food!

If you weren't on the invite list this year and you see how much fun it was from the photos and need to be on the list for next year... send me and email!

WARNING..... LOTS of PHOTOS:)

Pop Up tent decorated cute.. We made the cute rockets and they had candy in them.

Drink station.

I brought my 4th decorations and hung them up.

I brought my American flag with .... it was Chad's great grandmas.

Tiffanie and I made the ruffled crepe paper garland.

We made bean bag toss....You can find the project instructions for all projects and deco we made on my pin board

 Here we are the hostesses.

 Starting from left.. Molly, Alicia, Laurie, Megan, ME, Heidi and Kelly

BFF's Scarlette and Tatum playing in the pool.

Andrea, Lyndsie, Kattie and Stace and Kaylyn

Dinner time

Scarlette, Tatum, Keller and Cooper.

Ruffle Booties!

Keller and Cooper

Tatum enjoying her cupcake.

My crazy boy.

Such a goof ball

Kattie, Tatum and Scarlette in the baby pool.

Water balloon toss.

Me catching a water balloon... and Heidi laughing at me!

This is where me and Tiff got out of the game :(

I love that everyone played:)

Down to the last two groups.

Amelia and Scarlette

This balloon lasted all of two seconds.

Gabby and Emily doing the three legged race.

Everyone getting ready for the three legged race.

Here we are all lined up ready to race... Tiff and I lost this one too... we were laughing so hard we were a little slow.

See us in the middle way in the back.

The second heat.

The two winning teams against each other.

It was a tie... so they had to go the again.

Karson in the pool.

Kids getting ready to do the egg race.

And they are off.

Alicia in the lead

Molly and Dan

We had to move the egg race to the street... because egg races do not break on the grass.

Sad Sophie... her egg broke.

and Gabby is out.

Alicia in the lead.

Me watching the race.

Winner winner!

Sophie and Sage watching the pie eating contest.

Troy,Gabby, Emily and Gwen... the only ones brave enough to eat some pie.

and they are off.

Gabby's friend Troy.

Gabby

Emily

Gwen

Funny thing is Gwen doesn't even like pie filling

Pie up Emily's nose.

Gabby

And the Winner is ... Troy

Tatum

Gabby and Emily in their cute skirts I made.

 BFF's Tiffanie and Chad....being silly!

It was such a fun party... can't wait for next year!