Zachary's Train Birthday

Zachary's 3rd Birthday was a Chugaricfic good time

We threw Zach a Train Party because he REALLY likes trains.

(sorry these are pictures of only the decorations. My sister took pictures of the rest of the party and I haven't gotten those from her yet)

I made Zach's banner out of some old Jeans and red fabric I already had on hand. It fit the color's for the party so well.

No Train party is complete without an All Aboard Sign

Just in case you needed to catch another "train" we had the Arrivals and Departures listed

Now come the games

We had Hopscotch on the Rails

Choo Choo Musical Tracks

Just like Musical Chairs except they went around the railroad tracks and stopped on a train when the music Stopped.

Sadly Zach did not want to play the games, but he did have fun playing and stopping the music, which was "I've been working on the Railroad".

 We used black electrical tape for the tracks and I cut out all the different trains on my circut

 Then the kids had to Fuel the Engine. They were given Black Bean Bags, aka Coal, and had to get it into the holes.

We built the train out of left over boxes. The wheels were actually cake circles and I cut out the number and letters on my circut

 Here are the favors

Each kid received a Hat, Bandanna and Train whistle upon entering the party

Each kid and Adult left with a Jumbo Cookie

The Cake

The cake was surrounded my train tracks. Not my best work on the cake, but with my little one yr old running around, I think it turned out well

This was Zach's face when everyone was singing Happy Birthday to him. He sat down and started already blowing out his candles....Then we all started singing and he got all quiet and mad looking. He didn't even want blow out his last candle by the end of the song.

Every Time anyone would wish him a Happy Birthday, he would say NO. You would ask him if he's 3 and he would say NO. I guess he didn't want to get older. After the party I asked him if he had a fun. He said Yes Play...meaning he had fun playing with everyone. When I asked him if he had a good birthday party he would say NO.

Even if he doesn't want to be 3 and I don't want him to be 3, we have a 3 year old in our house now!

Merry Christmas 2011

CHRISTMAS EVE:

We spent Christmas Eve opening up all our presents because Jake had to work Christmas Day.

The kids had a blast tearing through all those packages

 Zach had to help everyone open their presents

 This is his "cheese" face

 Even Jake is excited :)

 When Zach opened the Dr. Set he kept going "mommy, mommy look"

 Love this little excited face

 All of his "booty" from the night

 Madison wasn't too happy I made her sit their to take a picture

 Then we HAD to make cookies for Santa

 Zach is my good little helper. I even made him a apron (and Madison) so they can help momma

CHRISTMAS MORNING:

 Christmas Morning Came and Zach didn't want to wake up. (note this is at 9am)

 Madison had fun helping Mommy try to get Zach up to see what SANTA had brought

 Madison got her own set of wheels from SANTA

 Zachary got his very own Kitchen....He LOVES it

 Christmas breakfast was Christmas tree waffles. I dyed the waffles green and made them into a tree shape with a whip cream star on top. (to bad I forgot all about the fresh fruit ornaments....instead they had syrup garland)

We forgot all about our stockings. So after church the kids got to open even MORE presents. (don't mind Zach itching his nose)

Jake came home a little after 4pm, so we were able to have Christmas Dinner together.

We had a wonderful Christmas. It was so fun watching the kids faces when they would open up presents. I can't wait to do it all again next year.

We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and are wishing you a Happy New Year!

Knotts Berry Farm

We went to Knotts Berry Farm with Jake's parents a couple of weeks ago and had a lot of fun. Nani and Papa even went of some of the rides with us (and not just the kiddie rides).

 Zach's face on this airplane ride was so funny. He looked SO mad. The plane was supposed to go up in the air when you pulled on the stick, but his plane didn't. He was VERY disappointed. (the fish ride at sea world always goes up for him and he loves it)

 This train ride the kids worked themselves. Well Zach was pushing and pulling on it before she said go, but once she said they could really start moving he didn't push or pull again. The lady had to push him around the entire track.

Zach LOVED the monster trucks. (and so did Jake...he he)

 We LOVE Nani

 Riding the small train ride with Nani and Papa. All smiles here

Zach and Madison even went on the Log Ride and they liked it. (despite what the picture shows)

(this picture is from the next week when we went again)

SANTA

At our Ward Christmas Party Santa showed up, so of course we had to get pictures.

Madison disappointed me by not crying. She just sat there very unsure....but NO tears.

Zachary was unsure also, but he sat there anyway

 FINALLY when we get a family shot is when Madison starts to cry. She saw Mommy right there and she wanted me. Well at least I got one crying picture

We will see if she will cry when we see Santa again!

Falling Leaves

We have a big tree in our front yard that is losing all it's leaves and Zach is LOVING it.

Every night after Jake gets home and we have dinner, Zach wants to go outside to not only look at the Christmas lights, but to have his daddy make him a Big pile of leaves

 Running through the leaves is so much fun

Dumping a big pile of leaves on Madison's head is also a lot of fun

It's raining leaves

Zach wanted to get me with leaves

Diving in them is also fun

Madison wasn't too sure

 Cute little squirts

 Having TOO much FUN

Each night the pile just keeps getting bigger and bigger

My little Indians

So I'm a little late getting this up, but I wanted to share what my cute kiddos were dressed up as on Thanksgiving.

These are my CUTE little Indians.

 I borrowed Madison's outfit from a friend and made Zach's! (the night before)

 Here is a Turkey craft we made with the kids hand prints

 This was my Thanksgiving Mantel. I made the wreath, but bought the give thanks from vinylnthings.blogspot.com

We had a really good thanksgiving even though we didn't have Jake with us. That's ok because we had our own little thanksgiving together a week later.