A NOT so Happy Birthday for Kailey

Kailey has been looking forward to her Birthday for months! She talked about it constantly. She even coached me on how exactly to decorate her rainbow dash birthday cake. She had to have purple flowers in her hair, and a rainbow colored eye with a heart...just like the real rainbow dash.

and the cupcakes HAD to have pinkalicious frosting...
She woke us up at 5:00 in the morning on her Birthday. Unfortunately, not because she was too excited, but it was because she had thrown up in her bed. So, so, unbelievably SAD! It broke our hearts. :( She had caught a very nasty flu bug that has been going around. We had to cancel the pool party and everything. The next day, after we came home from the doctor and gave her the anti-nausea medicine he prescribed, she finally felt like opening a few presents.
She was very excited that she got the snow cone machine that she had been asking for.
along with ponies, Mary Poppins, Pinkalicious book, and of course...
Rainbow Dash!
We will be saving her cake until she feels up to eating it. But for now, just this... "Pinkalicious," right?

We love you Kailey girl and hope you get feeling better soon so that Daddy can take you to Sunsplash!

Sunkissed

Kailey and I had fun shooting her 6 year old pics today. I was hoping to get some more of Ashlyn for her 3 month photo's as well, but she spit up all over her clothes. So, I'll have to get back to her sooner or later. I absolutely LOVE the outfits! And I have been wanting to take pictures at this location (The Orange Patch) since I got my camera. I think we captured a few keepers. What do you think?

A Special Day

I still can't believe that I have a child old enough to be baptized! And I thought that the first day of kindergarten was hard. We sure love this guy and am grateful that he understands the importance of his decision to be baptized. We are also grateful to have such a great big brother for our other children to have as an example. What a sweet boy! We are so pleased with all that he is. We love you so much Jake!

Happy Birthday Jake!

Here is the snake cake that I made for Jake. The best part was the edible chocolate rocks. They looked so real. Jake wanted me to put his favorite kind of snakes on it as well...albino corn snakes.

Yeah, this is a little morbid...
Jake thought it was great!
He woke up to these decorations...

Jake loves to u-tube video clips of Steve Irwin, so I decorated the house with pictures and sayings that Steve Irwin was famous for using...

The kids went on a scavenger hunt for snake eggs that had clues written inside. The final clue told them to go to Jake's Mom. When they came to me, I asked them each a snake trivia question, which was then rewarded with a plastic snake. Jake's reward was not exactly plastic though...
He was VERY surprised and so was everyone else.

He loves his new albino corn snake that he named Viper.
And Kailey loves her new snake as well. Her Birthday present came just a couple of weeks early.

Jake's new pet

Thank you Grandpa Griffin for catching a lizard and gecko for Jakers. He couldn't be happier.

Here he is admiring and longing to hold them...

A few hours later, he gets his wish. He just had to find out if the lizard was male or female.
He was very glad to find out that it's a boy. You can tell from the blue markings on his belly.

This kid is all smiles...

even when it is biting him.
Kailey was feeling a little left out, so she had to go and dig up a pet of her own. :)