Welcome Willow Elizabeth Powers

 Willow Elizabeth Powers

7lbs 12oz
20 1/2 inches
 

 

A SUPER (Hero) Birthday!

Nick decided at the last minute that he wanted to have a birthday party for Landon this year. So I whipped together a Super Hero Party!!

 

 

 

I made a few cupcakes and a small cake and used a ton of Landon's Super Hero dolls action figures as toppers.

 

We sang Happy Birthday,

 

and opened gifts.

 

I let the kids know they could dress up as a Super Hero if they wanted and had some extra costumes on hand too. I made a backdrop and took pictures of willing participates!!

 

I think Landon had a pretty good time!!

 

Happy Birthday Landon !

Jude's Bday Party

This weekend was my nephew Jude's 2nd birthday!

 

My brother Scott works a lot and it not able to attend very many family events, it's good to see him! (Some time I don't always recognize him...)

 

Jude is very much into the movie Cars right now and will watch it 10 times a day if my sister will let him!!

 

Again Leia had to get into the gift action!

 

My parents got Jude this bike. At first he wanted nothing to do with it.

 

But once he got on they couldn't get him off!!

 

Happy Birthday Jude!!

Willow's Baby Shower

This weekend was my sister's baby shower. She was "showered" with LOTS of gifts!!

 

 

Leia decided she wanted in on the action...

Carrie got an awesome sit and stand stroller from our mother.

 

My sister is NOT a girly girl and wanted an art themed shower. It was very hard for me to not do anything girly (pastels, pink, purple, flowers, ie GIRLY!!!).

 

I did a LOT of Pintrest decoration but I'm a horrible scrapbooker/blogger and didn't take any pictures of it. I'll try to do a Pintrest post of all the stuff I did for the shower.. Bad me!!

 

Either way it was a great shower and my sister and future niece (Willow) were spoiled!!

Happy Birthday America!!

Fourth of July usually spent with the Kammeyers and this year did not disappoint. 

 

 

This year Josalyn and I were determined to SEE the fireworks! So we had parked a car in the Arrowhead area, had dinner at Fuddruckers,

 

And when it got near we parked our tushies at our cars and waited for the action!

The kids played with sparklers...

 

until the fun began!  I thought for sure Leia would be scared by the noise but she loved it!!!

 

So happy we could keep up the annual tradition!!

 

{Jordan, Kierstin, Landon, Harper, Delaney, Leia}

 

Happy Birthday America!!!

Family Pictures

We had family pictures taken this morning.

Of course I chose the hottest day of the summer!

But Landon is leaving soon and I didn't have much choice.

A friend of ours (Scott Gulledge) took them for us.

 

Here are a few of my favorite...

 

 

The kids did NOT cooperate on their solo pics..

 

It was hot, the sun was in their eyes...they were NOT happy.

We'll do it again when Landon comes back in November and it is cooler outside.

Pintrest Tuesday – Toy Jail

Welcome to Pintrest Tuesday!!
 

Recently I've been obsessed with keeping the house clean. I cant seem to sleep if the house is dirty when I go to bed.
 

The mess breaks down like this:
50% Landon
40% Leia
10% Nick

 

Picking up after Hurricane Leia is a full time job on its own, adding Landon to it and I was going crazy!!

I saw something on Pintrest awhile ago but never pinned it. (Bad me!)

It went some thing like this. Kids left their toys out, mom put the toys in "jail", kids did a chore to get the toy out.

So I put it in play.

Every night at around 7:30pm Landon has 15 minutes to pick up all the junk he's gotten out during the day. (In the past picking up ment he would just throw it in his room or play hide and shove! Which usually meant one shoe in the closet and the other shoved in a drawer or toy bin some where. So toy jail includes his room and everything has to be put in the right place.) Anything left out after 15 minutes goes to toy jail.
 

 

Landon has to pull a chore from the jar to get his toy back.
  
 
 

On Sunday at 5pm anything still in jail gets donated to Goodwill!
 

It has been a beautiful thing!! Landon enjoys it (for some reason) and I have a clean house!!! So far only 3 toys have gone to jail. He did his chores to get them back.
 

Every one is happy!!
 

Until next week

Keep pinning and crafting!!!