Princess, Princess

Campbell & I attended 2 birthday parties on Saturday, both girls were turning 4 and both had princess themes. What are the odds? Maybe pretty good since it seems that most 4 year old girls love their princesses. Campbell had a great time at both parties....how can you go wrong with princess games, princess crafts, and cake? It was fun to see all the little girls dressed up in costumes and fancy, girly dresses.

Just enough time in between parties to stop for lunch. Snow White got a Snow White party favor.

Snow White rockin' out. Campbell sat for a long time playing this kid sized guitar and making up lyrics. I think Santa might have to leave a guitar under the tree this year.

While we were parting, the boys went to the 'work store' (aka Home Depot) and worked on some projects around the house. Not quite sure why so many curtain rods and towel holders are ripping out of the walls, but they are, and they are leaving huge holes in the sheet rock from the anchors. Arg! And did I mention our grill blew across our deck, down some steps, tipped over, and the propane tank was hanging over the edge of the railing? Grill parts were scattered everywhere. It's windy out here on the prairie! Geez! Luckily, only some minor pieces broke and the grill is still usable.

A Slient Night for Peef

Gabe has been working long hours, so it was nice to spend a night together as a family. We planned on going to Pizza Luce and then to A Silent Night for Peef at Stages Theatre. Since the wait was 45 minutes at Pizza Luce, Daddy took us to a "super-secret" pizza place. Secret it was, as we were the only diners. Blake told the waitress he wanted the "Pizza Luce" so I'm pretty sure he got his pizza spit on. He didn't seem to mind as he easily polished off his ENTIRE pizza.

Onto the show, which was a cute story about a boy and his beloved bear named "Peef" who was given to him by Santa. It was fun to watch Blake stare in amazement at the production and occasionally blurt out something. He said, "they're so happy!" when the elves were singing their opening tune. And "where's his hat?" when Santa had a costume change.

 

I don't know how we lost our ability to say 'no', but we ended up buying the kids 3 Peef bears. We started out only getting a small bear for the kids to share. Then Campbell started crying because she wanted a big one. Gave in to that. Then Blake suddenly got up in the middle of the show and headed to the lobby saying he was "going to get a big bear too".  Literally spending more on the bears than the tickets themselves. Geez!

Peef! Peef!

 At home Campbell loves to put on plays/dances and then give out autographs to the audience (Blake & me), so as much as she loved the play, she was ecstatic about seeing the actor/actresses up close after the show. Campbell jumped and squealed through the line getting autographs from the actors.

I noticed which reading the program that there was an actress named Livia in the show. So while Campbell was getting autographs, I introduced myself to the Check the Elf & she excitedly said, "not even with an O?!?" She was super chatty and so cute. We were talking about how few Livia's we each knew. She knew two, 1 of whom lived in London. And I said I knew 3 people that had named their daughters Livia. I must have been a little star Livia-struck because I didn't put it together later until in the car.....could we know the same London Livia?!?!?

2 Livia's

No Boys Allowed

Campbell posted this sign on her door today. The curls are spot on for a certain little brother.

So Busted

This picture just cracks me up. Gabe & I were upstairs meeting with a lady about blinds for some windows and the kids were playing downstairs. My camera was laying out and Blake took this picture of Campbell climbing on the roof of the playhouse. She knows she's not supposed to be up there because it comes apart easily and it could collapse. He TOTALLY busted her!

Yes, I am so terribly behind blogging. Yup, just checked, my last post was over 2 months ago...woops! I'm having trouble getting motivated to start. Thank goodness for being able to backdate posts and pictures to remind me what we've been up to. I better get to it....I'm starting to forget the details!

First Snow

The kids were super pumped about the first snow fall. It was barely snowing and they kept sprinting to the window wondering if there was enough to go sledding yet. Finally there was just enough snow to cover the grass a little bit so we got bundled up and headed out.

Blake insisted on wearing a pair of Campbell's snow pants.

Gabe would make the kids snowballs and then they'd throw them right at him.

Happy sledder

Mush!

Campbell wanted the spot light. I was taking a picture of Blake and she popped her head right in front of the camera.

We used to be able to walk to Target, restaurants, the ice cream shop, and Gabe's work.  Now we can walk to a cow pasture. The kids were very excited that the cows were looking and moo-ing at them.

Fall Goof Balls

Ch-ch-cha-Changes

It took 1 day of driving Campbell 25 minutes one way to preschool to decide I was going to switch her sooner than later to a closer school. I had planned on letting us get settled in the house and then change. But, it was just too far. We went for a tour of a preschool very close to our house & it was cute and the teachers were very nice. That day we drove by Campbell's preschool and Blake said "there's your preschool, Da-do (Campbell)." Campbell very matter of factly said, "I don't go there anymore." We still had to give notice at her 'old' preschool and say good-bye to her friends, but she didn't seem to be worried about it at all. While I was super excited about not spending so much time driving, I am still sad that we had to say good-bye to her wonderful teacher, Miss Melissa (who said to me when we were saying good-bye, "I know we're not supposed to have favorites, but Campbell is a lot of fun") and her friends and preschool moms that we've gotten to know over these past 2 years. And, I was bummed that we're not in a district that has a Spanish Immersion program. Campbell really liked learning Spanish and we had paid more money to send her to a Spanish Preschool. But, I just found out that starting next year, there will be 2 sections of Spanish for incoming kindergarteners! I don't know the details, but we'll will find out soon at the Kindergarten information session. At least there's hope!

Campbell's class made her a cute card on her last day.

First day of preschool, again.

Campbell jumped right into the new preschool and never looked back. Her new teacher said she's the smile-ist kid she's seen and is doing great.