Birthday Party FUN!

In a one week span we went to THREE birthday parties! All three of them were so cute and a lot of fun! Here are a couple pics from each of the parties! Lily, a friend from church, celebrated her 4th birthday with an adorable princess theme! Her Grandpa made this wooden carriage by hand for his princess! It was so cute! All the girls came dressed up like a princess!

Paula, Lily's mother, gave all the girls a personalized sash! What a clever idea!

The sweet birthday princess!

One of our good friends, Cynetta, had a cowboy themed first birthday party for Benjamin. I still can't believe he is a year old!

Benjamin and big brother Noah! He's about to devour is cake! He's such a cutie!

Some our friends at the party!

My niece, Caroline, celebrated her 3rd birthday! She had a very cute ballerina theme! (Claire with her big girl cousins!)

Caroline blowing out her candles on her ballerina cake!

The birthday ballerina opening up her birthday gifts! She's getting soooo BIG!

Happy Birthday! We love you!!

Old Fashioned Days Festival

We mainly went to Xenia's Old Fashioned Days festival for the hot air balloon demonstration, but we ended up having a great time! So many fun things to do! Have I mentioned that I also love festival food?

I remember feeding ducks at Shawnee park when I was little!

We took a family paddle boat ride! The girls really liked that!

The Bounce House is a MUST at every festival we go to!

On the swings!

The lighting of the four hot air balloons was amazing! So beautiful and neat for the girls to witness!

Children's Literature Fair

We have an extensive library of children's book, so we were excited to go to the Children's Literature Fair at the Greene! We got lots of free books and met several of our favorite book characters!

Story time with George!

The girls doing a color experiment with Grammy!

Claire & George!

Grammy also bought several books for the girls and had the authors or illustrators autograph their book!

Enjoying lunch out on the patio at The Greene!

Another signed book!

Playing the alphabet game!

We are AWANA Cubbies

Claire in now a Cubbie! We love AWANA's (Approved Workman Are Not Ashamed)! Ben & I both grew up in the AWANA program and are so happy our girls can be apart of it too! This is my third year helping with the Cubbies and I really enjoy it! My sweet Cubbie!

Pledge to the American & AWANA flags!

Singing the Cubbies song!

"We HOP because we're happy..."

Game Time


Claire & Caroline listening intently at story time!

Claire is in Cubbies with her cousin Caroline and friend Landon!

Graduation Sunday

Claire has graduated up to the 3 Year Olds class at church! Such a BIG girl!

Posing!

Disney on Ice

My Mom and I took Claire to Disney on Ice a couple weeks ago! I'm fairly certain Nuna & I enjoyed the production as much as Claire! It was really well done! I told Claire she could pick out one thing and she decided on the cotton candy that came with a Mickey crown! The cotton candy lasted her the whole show!

Nuna & Claire

At intermission I let Claire go to the ice rink to look around!

Claire clapping along with the music!

The End!

New Boston Fair

Some cute pictures from the New Boston Fair ! Claire really seems interested in the old fashioned ways! There was a real baby in the wooden crib!!!!

Claire helping Daddy eat his enormous turkey leg!