Annabelle's 3rd Birthday!!!

 Look who just turned 3!!!

 Little Doll in her new Minnie Mouse dress and 'ballet' shoes

 In the morning with flowers and Minnie Mouse crown from Babi

 The kids both got such cute books from Pra-Babcia

 Magic Tricks from Ciocia Ada

 And the games begin! We started with rounding up the balloons, around the obstacles and into the corral

 Sophie found a sucker, mmm, yumm you suckers:)

 Jack won the second game, trying to hold as many balloons as possible in 30 seconds

 Getting ready for the relay race to pop balloons

 Musical Water Balloons

 And a barrel race at the end! Turned out so fun!

 The cake, I didn't realize she had a sucker so it was hard to blow out:)

 Stealing more treats, this time she found someone's apple:) Atleast they are all organic from our tree:)

 What an adorable 3 year old birthday girl!

 Munchin' on pizza with dad, and the love!

Thank you everyone for coming and the wonderful gifts!



First day of First Grade

 Check out this stud going to first grade! Love the outfit he chose! He was so excited he didn't get to bed until 10pm because he kept popping up and got up at 6:30am - couldn't stop chattering, saying he was excited but a little scared.  I made him white chocolate pancakes and eggs and a strawberry milkshake as requested, he didn't eat too much because he was nervous, and kept asking if he looks ok to go to school:) Hope it's a good day!  I had to teach yoga and left at 7:30, he wanted me to take him to school then, I said he gets to take the bus in a little while, he wanted to go wait at the stop right away (bus doesn't come til 8:45:))

Sweetheart

 This guy is such a sweetheart! When we went to the grocery store after the trip he found this bouquet of flowers and brought them to me saying "Mommy, these are for you because I love you and thank you for the trip" being all sneaky and hiding them behind him.  He did it all on his own, too!

Love this guy!

 

Vegas - Mirage Secret Gardens and Children's Museum

Annabelle was star struck when she met her hero Minnie Mouse!

 Gelato at Ceasar's Palace

Bumble Bee and Optimus Prime were awesome, too!

 We're going to see the Dolphins!!!

 The tiger and lion secret gardens were pretty cool!

 Annabelle loved the white lion

 "Ahh! He's eating my arm!"

 This tiger was quite the performer and poser for us

 Only shot from the Children's Discovery Museum, it was amazing though!

Zion's Emerald Pools and Virgin River

We stayed at South Campground the second night, it was great, right next to the river

 If you look closely, you can see my head under Sophie:) Kids were a little tuckered out after the Narrow's Hike:)

 Emerald Pools was beautiful, but not flowing much

 She's ready for anything!

 Playing in the water

 Beach Baby