Friday, October 7, 2011

Rilyn and Raigen's Candyland birthday!!

This year  I decided to combine both Rilyn and Raigen's party together. Their birthdays are 2 months apart, but December is just not a fun month to have your birthday. Last year it was WAY too cold. And plus, what kid wouldn't love to celebrate their birthday 2 months early? :)

I also talked it over with Rilyn and we decided to let C.J share the birthday as well. Each birthday kid even got their own special little cake to blow out. We wanted him to feel included in our family and my super sweet girls didn't mind sharing their special day with him at all. :)

This years theme was Candyland! And it turned out cute! I shopped around and found the perfect shirts for them to wear that said "I love Candy" and I had fun making all the giant candy pieces and the giant candyland board! The kids had a blast and each kid got a giant swirl lolly pop to take home. Below are just some of the pictures.. enjoy!















































Papa-Pa

Recently Josh's grandpa passed away.

We all have a lot of great memories of Papa-pa and so id thought I would share MY favorite one. :)

Papa liked to cook.
It wasn't always a good thing, but for the most part it was.

I can remember many times going over to Robin and Ronnie's for dinner and Papa over cooking the chicken. LOL

Have you ever had jerky-chicken?..Its really kind of good. :)

I teased and told Josh someone should of brought some 'well done' chicken to Rachel's, after the funeral,  in honor of Papa. :)

Anyway.... back to my favorite memory.

There was one time when the whole family was over at The Longs.
Rachel had asked me to make a punch bowl cake and so she and I went to brookshire bros to get stuff to make it.

When we got back I started to make the cake... and I thought I'd play a little joke on Rachel.

Papa and I were standing in the kitchen and I started making the vanilla pudding.
I told Papa that I was making pudding but that I was going to play a joke on Rachel and tell her that it was the vanilla cake and that I had messed it up. He laughed.

Rachel came walking thru the kitchen.

"Rachel, I don't know what happened to this cake mix... its really, really watery." I said.

" I think I may have put too much water in it... look and see if it calls for 3 cups."

I don't remember exactly what she said... something like..."you retard!!! I have been wanting some punchbowl cake!!"

When she left the kitchen we all laughed because she totally bought it!

I left the pudding on the counter to thicken and walked out of the kitchen. I told Rachel to calm down because it was just a joke and that it was just the pudding that I was making.

When I returned to the kitchen to bake the cake I saw papa mixing my pudding.

"There you go!" he said.

"Bake that bad boy now!"

Confused...I asked him..."what'd you do?"

"Oh... just added a few eggs... some flour... and baking soda." he said.

I thought he was just adding to the little joke I was playing on Rachel so I laughed and told him it was OK because I had told her it was only pudding and not the cake mix.

He then looked very confused.

He said..."I thought you really messed it up, so I fixed it for you."

Now, I know I told him it was a joke... but obviously he didn't hear me because he then blamed me and said I probably didn't say it loud enough because he is hard of hearing! LOL




Castle Time!

Lastnight we put together the 6 foot tall color-able (if thats even a word) castle for the kids that they got for their birthday.

"Who got this for us?" Rilyn asked.

"Crystal, Paul, and Drake." I told her.

"Who's Paul??" Rilyn asked..giving me a very confused look.

"Drake's Daddy, silly." I said.  I don't know why she was so confused. She has met Paul before.

WELL obviously she didn't remember him...

"Drake's daddy is old??" She asked... still confused.

Laughing.. I said  "no... Why do you think hes old??"


"Because! His name is PAW, ya know, like Paw-Paw!"

Hahaha....  :)



And YES we now have Mr. C.J.!  :)

He is absolutley the SWEETEST little boy EVER!