A day in photos.

Taking advantage of the lovely weather.

^^Bouncing all over the backyard on Rody^^

^^ Chasing a leaf  blowing in the wind, w/ a stick^^

^^We found signs of spring while exploring the yard^^

^^Rowan & Christine came over and we went on an adventure^^ 

^^ Lil was rocking Rowan's Aviators!^^

^^Getting good & dirty^^

^^ Lots of playing in hollowed out stumps went down^^

^^Then we found this & left just before the sun went down^^

We walked back to our house to warm up & clean up.

Finished off with some Kinect video games, followed by dinner & bed!

The End!

<3

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I'm still editing photos I took at her party. The photographer sent me

 the disks a while back, but I want to post them both in the same post. 

So when I'm done I'll post them but until then here is a teaser or two.

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*1st four are my photography, last four are the photographers shots.*

Bubble wrap painting!

What a blast this was. Supah dupah easy, & fun! 

Paint on bubble wrap (bubble side up) 

We used acrylic, as we do in most projects.

Next press the paper (or what have you) on it to make a print. 

We even made a few Valentines while we were at it!
<3

The problem...

with winter birthdays in New England is, it's always up in the air. That is originally why I didn't want to rent any kind of venue for the actual party itself. Yadda yadda yadda, fast forward to the party day & POOF our 1st significant snow fall all winter. Everyone (including our amazing photographer) was on board til the very last minute  (it was said to stop in the mid afternoon) As usual weather people lie & we couldn't risk anyone getting hurt upon arrival so we hit the "Party Off" switch. On the day of her actual day of birth we opened presents, ate cake & pizza, and went to Chuck E. Cheese with friends & family. Had an absolute BLAST. The museum was super cool about rescheduling for a later date. The only downside to any of this is we ate a LOT of cake & cookies that week!

So we pre-gamed her big party, no big deal!

<3

xoxo

Christmas craft!

Of course I helped, but honestly Lilith did  90% of the work on this project!

We started with blank wooden wreath shapes.

 I taped off the 'bow section' with a little Scotch tape,

& let her go to town with some light green paints.

^^ She really liked filling the middle w/ paint^^

Mommy removed the scotch tape & cleaned up the edges a little.

^^We then we let it dry completely for about an hour^^

^^Next: I gave her darker shades of green & a texture sponge^^

^^& Let her go to town- (also covered the bow w/ tape again)^^

 After this was good & dry we moved on to the bow!

Next I cut slots in a piece of construction paper.

 BRING ON THE RED PAINT!

& now for the Finished product...

TA-DA!

We spent all day crafting, this was just one of the projects we did this day. Since it involved a lot of drying time & layers of paint- we just kept going back to it in between other projects! We also made a construction paper x-mas tree for the fridge, that Lil decorated TOTALLY on her own! There was no interference or influence involved in the sticker placement! 

She even put an ordainment on the star, that SHE placed on the top of the tree!

Happy Holidays to all!!

xoxo