Happy 4th Birthday Audrey

We decided this year to do a party at a "play place" and not take on as much work on our own as we did for Colin's birthday.  There are a ton of places around here that do parties but some of them can be really expensive, or you could only have a small number of kids.  We decided we really liked Classic Fun Center and how they did their parties.  On Saturday mornings they are only open for birthday parties for kids under 8 years old.  Audrey decided she wanted a "Frozen" party(of course!) and invited all the kids in her class.  We ended up having 18 kids!  They were able to skate, play arcade games, do the bouncy houses, the jungle gym and also the blast zone(shooting nerf balls through rockets at each other).  The kids all seemed to have a great time, a lot of the adults did too!

Olaf!

Trying to decide if she's going to jump....she never did. She decided to do the slide down instead

 Jungle Gym

                         

 Arcade games

The adults had fun too

Colin and Ben shooting at Paul in the blast zone

Blast zone

Cake and presents!

Ice cream

Audrey loved skating with her new roller blades

Fun on a scooter too!

 At night, Uncle Billy and Courtney came down and we went out for sushi

Trying a new roll

We opened presents from family after  dinner

We ended the night watching Frozen.....again

December 10th-24th 2013

The title of this post is a date, I am aware of that.  That is because between getting home from California and it being Christmas was completely crazy. It went so fast and there was so much to do and accomplish.  

Birthday party for Papa

Putting up the Christmas tree

Sending out Christmas cards

AHHH!!!! (this is how I felt most of the month)

Making a gingerbread house

Skiing!!!

hot chocolate in the lodge

Dressed for the Christmas concert at school

Making candies. This was so much easier this year with the kids helping. They loved opening all the rolos for me.

We painted a canvas for our wall. We couldn't find anything big enough for the space that was affordable so we saw an idea on Pinterest and just made our own.  

 

New carpet to match the new decor

 Christmas cards all hung

Presents ready for Christmas morning