Liam turned 4 and we went to Chuck E. Cheese! He had lots of fun, other than the LOUD singing and cheering for him, and when he refused to have anything to do with Chuck E. and of course that was when all his friends were there. 
The birthday helper put the Birthday Crown on his head, (several times), and he kept pulling it off, with a GET this THING OFF of ME!!!!!! attitude! Later he played and hugged Chuck E. and had a grand time. He did enjoy playing games with his tokens. 
He also loved opening presents. (Who doesn't?)
He also loved opening presents. (Who doesn't?)One of his favorite friends this year is a little girl named Elizabeth in his pre-school class. I think he's in love... she has been very influential on him this past year. When he comes home from school we will ask him what he did at school today, and he always says, that he played with Elizabeth. She loves pony's - My little pony, and that is what she always plays so that is also what he frequently plays. For Christmas we gave his classroom some dinosaurs, so now he usually reports that he played pony's and dinosaurs. ;-)
Liam's favorite color has been GREEN for a very long time! Recently however, when you ask him he will often tell you his favorite color is pink. Can you guess WHO'S favorite color is PINK?(Elizabeth)
We had talked about Liam's cake and he had asked for months to have a GREEN birthday cake. I managed to incorporate that into the Super Hero Squad theme that we went with, since that is his favorite thing these days... I put colorful swirls inside the cake mix - mostly green until I ran out of green food color. I had worked on the cake the night before his party when he was asleep, so in the morning I asked if he wanted to see it? He looked at his cake all covered in Super Hero squad guys and everything on the green grass icing, and said, "I wanted a PINK cake"!
When the Birthday Helper lit the candles, Liam refused to blow them out, and didn't WANT anyone else to blow them out either. Finally a couple of sly blows later by dad, myself and possible a kid or two... the candles were out! Then we began pulling some of hte guys off the cake in order to cut it and serve it. Liam got mad and tried to put them back ON the cake. Later... he decided that licking the icing off the guys feet was a pretty cool thing, and then he got to have his new Super hero guys... so he got right to work!
In May we had Sariah's 14th Birthday 
and she moved up to the Mia Maid class in our Young Women's program at Church. She had asked me to make her a dress for her birthday present. I worked on it all week whenever I was home and not out doing other things. I had to add 6 inches to the patern length for the dress to fit her long legs... I worked on it saturday, late into the night so she'd have it for her birthday on Sunday. We got up on Sunday - mother's day she put on the dress and it fit... then as my luck would have it... the zipper broke. We had quite a time even getting her out of the dress! Then we had a few emotional moments.The family went off to Church, and we came home afterward, picked up Sariah and the picnic lunch dad had put together and had a lovely lunch 
at the new greenway, and then the kids wanted to go see the new playground at the new elementary school... we obliged and everyone had a fun time playing on all the new playground equipment! 
After we went back home the kids and dad put together my mothers day dinner. They all pitched in and helped.
Even Liam... 
We had a yummy dinner, and an over all really nice day together as a family (minus Rebekah who called me to wish me a Happy Mother's Day).
at the new greenway, and then the kids wanted to go see the new playground at the new elementary school... we obliged and everyone had a fun time playing on all the new playground equipment! After we went back home the kids and dad put together my mothers day dinner. They all pitched in and helped. Even Liam... We had a yummy dinner, and an over all really nice day together as a family (minus Rebekah who called me to wish me a Happy Mother's Day).Other than that, Bill flew up to NY to pack Rebekah up and bring her home from College for the summer. We worked on the house a little bit the weekend before, and moved Liam and his Toddler bed back into our bedroom, and put the trundle bed in his room so Rebekah would have someplace to live for the summer months while she is home. the kids all have one more week of school - they would be out already but we actually had several snow days this winter so the kids have to go extra now to make up for it now. This summer we have some things going on, the big girls will be working, Sariah is taking a trip to Europe. There will also be EFY and Girls Camp, and Hannah will be going to a softball camp for a week and then a police camp for a week, through school. Marissa will continue on with karate. Liam will be getting surgery on his hip in the middle fo June, and that will make all of our lives interesting.
I'll try to do better at keeping up with all our lives and activities.
Life has been so busy! I have been working on Amanda's Prom dress for weeks. In between working on the prom dress, I have helped with decorating for a wedding reception, and helped work on costumes for the High School Musical - Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Which, when I wrote this, I didn't even have a child in. However, as of yesterday I have a child who has been asked to jump in and help by playing in the 
I don't know what has gotten into me lately, but for some reason I went crazy and thought I'd be a seamstress or something! I haven't sewed much in years, before I had to do the trek clothes 2 yrs ago. I sewed blessing dresses for the first thee kids. I have made a dress here and there, mostly t-shirt dresses, where you are really only gathering a ruffle to add to a shirt for the skirt part. When Rebekah was home on Christmas break I began making her a dress. I didn't get it completely finished and so I had to send it to her in her birthday package. Then the prom was 
I have to say a HUGE Thank You to my friend S for being so wonderful to help give me moral support, and get me through the directions for the dress (actually there were two patterns we were merging together to make the dress modest for Amanda). Thank you also for her family for putting up with me at there house for hours while I sewed and sewed! and Thank you, to MY family for putting up with me being gone for hours and hours, sewing and sewing. I finished the dress - not as soon as I 
Anyway, I finished the dress, we borrowed the 
and I think my daughter was a Beautiful princess! 
and I hope she had a great time with her friends!
Rebekah made a couple of corsages and they turned out great! 
Thank you also to everyone who helped host and put together a fun prom night!
All the dresses were beautiful and the kids all looked amazing! 
Showing some sisterly support... 
A bunch of kids got 
The boys were very nice and stood there being supportive (trying to block the sun for one another), while the girls had lots of fun getiting thier pic's taken. 
All the table decorations and set up were beautiful! It was fun of course to see some of the decorations from the wedding reception I helped set up being used again for something else so fun! Great job!
I had fun taking pictures too, I have also been trying to learn how to edit the pictures I take a little... This is my first attempt.
I was able to help out at the dinner part, serving food, clearing tables, and taking pic's and it was fun to be around the kids and get to be a small part of their fun day. (When we arrived to help at dinner, one of the girls noticed a little bird outside on the back porch of our friend J's house, and it was taking a little bird bath in her kitty's water bowl. 
A Dangerous adventure perhaps, but it was so cute! Iwas able to capture one picture of it before we all scared it away I'm sure by crowding around the windows to get a peek at it.
I wonder what fun April will bring to our home?