Kate the Great Turns 3!

When I call Kate "sweetie" or "cutie" or something other than her name, she always corrects me and says, "No, I Kate da Great!" She knows it, and she is so full of personality we almost can't handle her, ha ha. She is wild and darling at the same time, and our family would not be the same without her. These pictures are all complements of my sweet sister-in-law Callie (okay, and Jaren took a few too). Thanks guys!

And thanks Pinterest, for almost every idea I had for this party! Rainbow cupcakes, a fun kids treasure hunt, rainbow candied popcorn, tissue pom poms, rainbow fruit tray, and of course Skittles and Starbursts!

Kate got lots of Toy Story themed presents!

And behold! The cutest bike I've ever seen! It even has a cute little bell! And guess who blew right past it to get to the table and eat her Cheetos from Aunt Avree?

Oh, now she notices it!

A little nervous at first, but she's getting the hang of it.

 

This is where I finally helped Kate blow out the candles after 30 seconds of her spitting on the cake!

And the highlight for Kate was that my parents came up last minute to join in the festivities. My mom just couldn't miss it! What a fun day with family and friends!

Family Fun

I feel like our family is in such a great place right now. Andrew is close to 1 year old, all of my kids are sleeping through the night (well, 80% of the time), and well, I feel like I have jumped out of survival mode and back into doing some of the things with my kids that I want to do. Here are a few fun things we've been up to:
FHE Popcorn Night (Mitch got a popcorn machine for Young Men's so we tested it out the night before)

 Notice our little toothless Marin! She lost both of her front teeth in the last month.

Kate was loving the popcorn machine! 

Last night for Leap Day we had a party. We played leap frog and other froggy games and had pudding parfaits. Ha ha, they aren't much to look at but they were Oreo and Pistachio pudding and they were surprisingly good! 

I have to say, Marin helped me tape together this poster and I had to push aside my OCD and let her not line the pages up exactly perfectly, ha ha.

Obviously this is not all we have done in the past month, but it is all I took pictures of. Thanks to Pinterest and my returned sanity, we have lots of fun things planned for March and April (April is our birthday month, 3 of our family members have birthdays then). Hopefully I'll remember to take pictures!