Birthday Cake

I am so excited for Hayden's 4th birthday party tomorrow!!  He opted for a small b-day party with his cousins and for his b-day a trip to the waterpark!  Works for me!! :)  This year he asked for an airplane themed party, so I have been slowly collecting airplane misc. the past few months, although it seems like it has snuck up on me! 

One tradition I hope to do every year is always make a home-made cake... although I know the day will arrive (and I shutter at the thought) that he will want a store bought cake. :) Until then, I am sticking to the tradition.  I hope he is excited when he sees it... his request was that it have M&M's on it. :) 

So after about 4 hours, Jake and I managed to create an airplane birthday cake! 

Happy St. Patrick's Day

We had such a fun day today!!  This morning, after finding the mess the leprechaun made, we checked the trap to find a neat Shamrock plant!! :)  After our green breakfast, Hayden went to preschool and had some more St. Patty's fun!  After school, we made Shamrock cookies... my personal favorite from when I was a kid.  When Hayden woke up from his nap, we found that the leprechaun paid us another visit. Although this time, he left a trail of gold and some little treasures!  We ended the night with a yummy Baked Potato Bar dinner and a game of sequence Rummy!

Roy G. Biv

The leprechaun left us some rainbow goodies in the trap today!  Hayden loves mixing colors to see what turns out!  After creating various colors in our water glasses, we placed some white carnations into them to see how long it will take for them to change colors... Hayden can't wait to see this happen!  We also made more rainbow cupcakes... although they turned out better last year :).  Can't wait for some St. Patrick's Day fun tomorrow.

St. Patrick's Day Parade

Today, we wanted to get out for some fresh air, so we headed to the St. Patrick's Day Parade.  Hayden really liked seeing the firetrucks, especially seeing the lights & hearing the sirens.  My favorite part were the bag pipes!  Although it was a little chilly, it was nice to be outside in the sun!  We can't wait for Spring to arrive!

Wax Shamrocks

Today, we did a fun Shamrock craft!  We went through our gigantic crayon box and pulled out the different shades of green.  Then we used a pencil sharpener to make wax shavings on a piece of wax paper.  Once we had enough, we ironed over them which melted the shavings and wa-lah!... wax Shamrocks!  Hayden loved using the pencil sharpener and seeing how the shavings melted into cool designs!!  I think we will be doing this craft again for Easter.

Lucky Leprechaun Magical Powder

The tricky leprechaun paid us a visit last night!  Although we didn't catch him, he left us a fun treat!  After mixing the leprechaun powder with some milk, we had some yummy pistachio pudding!  Wow... it was magical!! :)

Instead of Fat Tuesday... celebrating Chubby Wednesday

Since we were busy last night on Fat Tuesday, we decided to celebrate Mardi Gras on Chubby Wednesday! :)  A few weeks ago, when we babysat Cousin Chandler, Nikki & Corey went to New Orleans.  She brought us back sooo many goodies to have a fun Mardi Gras Night! We made a homemade King Cake, Gumbo, Shrimp Jambolaya, and Mardi Gras Dip! 

All the Cool things from Aunt Nikki & Uncle Corey

Finding the baby in the King Cake

After our yummy dinner, we had some Mardi Gras fun playing Dance Party! :)