Izzy’s 6th Birthday!

Our birthday girl picked a roller skating party this year!  We have been to a few skate nights for school and she loves it so she was super excited to have her party there!  After being snowed in the most of the week everyone was happy to get out of the house!

We had some school friends, church friends, neighbors and some friends from preschool!

Cassidy had fun with our neighbor Mr.Jaime

Grandpa was a super skater and everyone wanted to skate with him!

Izzy got to roll the dice for the lucky dice game!

The excited #4 winners!

Barbie cake!

Cassidy loved the lights and wanted to dance!!

We had a blast celebrating Izzy!  It is so crazy to me that she is 6 years old!  She is such a sweet, loving girl.  She is loving kindergarten- she enjoys all her friends there and is doing well with learning to read.  Art is her passion!  She is really good at drawing and is super creative.  She loves to follow step by step instructions and also to do free art.  She still loves to snuggle and be read to.  We are so happy to have her as our oldest girl.  She is an excellent big sister!

Weather opposites!

Little bit more snow for us a week or so ago!

Cassidy loves playing on this bean bag chair!

And always attacks Piper when she’s on it!

We sledded on the driveway this time!

The snow melted and cousin Luke came to play!

So fun seeing them together!  They are just about the same size and into everything!

Then we got some nice weather and we spent some time outside!

Love my girls!!  We are waiting on more snow now!!

Circus 2014

We had a blast at the circus this weekend!  We made it a tradition when Izzy turned one, fiver years ago, and we have been loving it ever since!  Cassidy went last year but at just under a month old she didn’t know what was going on.  It was fun to see her so excited- she had no idea what was coming but was pumped up just from the big girls being so excited!  We started with the animals first. 

The elephants were their favorite!  The big girls made cards for some of their favorite people in the circus… the elephants got cards

After that we bought our souvenirs.  A wand for Piper and a mommy elephant for Izzy and a baby elephant for Cassidy

Then we headed to the preshow.  You can go down on the floor and see the circus acts up close.  The girls gave their cards to this clown

As we were walking around a lady came up to us and asked us to come with her.  We followed her and she took us to a tent that said “the ring master’s zone.”  We didn’t really know what was going on.  They were filming and taking lots of pics of the kids in there… I guess to maybe use on commercials?  They took the picture of us that’s at the top of this post.  Gave us a copy and a USB with the file.  They also gave us a DVD of the elephants and a calendar.  I was waiting for them to tell me it cost money but they didn’t!  We got to walk around in there and they had photo ops

The ring master’s step thing that he drives around.

The motorcycle metal cage ball thing

The clowns and some of the acts came out and we got to see them/pet them.

The girls got clown noses painted on.

Dress up!

And free popcorn!!  We stayed in there until the elephant came out and painted and then we headed to our seats.  We were kinda in shock that we got to have such a cool treat!

Not too many extra hands once we got to our seats so not too many more pics but this was the opening song.

Cassidy loved clapping her hands and seeing all the animals!  This year’s theme was legends so they had a Pegasus, unicorn and a wooly mammoth.  They girls were entranced!!  We had a lot of fun!  Love seeing them get so excited and have a good time!!