Showing posts with label grandparents. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grandparents. Show all posts

Saturday, February 20, 2016

Mom's 60th Birthday Surprise Party


For my mom's 60th birthday, we planned her a surprise party. We had so much fun with the decorations. We went with a sunflower and burlap theme since she loves sunflowers. 










We had a dessert bar with an amazing cake made by a friend who has a cake decorating business. 



The details on the cake were incredible and it was delicious as well. Don't tell anyone, but the whole bottom layer was styrofoam! The top layer was plenty to feed twenty people. 



The girls and I had fun making some sunflower cupcakes as well. 


And we made cake pops. I suddenly remembered why I rarely make cake pops. These were the lone survivors. 


Everything was ready and now we were only waiting on the guest of honor. We told her to meet us at our house at 6 and we would take her out to dinner. Of course, she wanted to leave early. She got so mad at Jerry when she found out that she was about ready to leave and he still had to shower! He kept stalling and got her there at just the right time. 


I was so busy during the party that I hardly took any pictures but at least I got her coming in.









We had a fajitas and margaritas. The food was so good. I have no concept of how much to cook for large groups so we had fajitas for quite some time afterwards. 










Monday, March 16, 2015

Perot museum

For Christmas, we got a membership to the Perot museum from Grandpa and Grandma Steve, so we went during the break. We hadn't been before and it was a lot of fun but very crowded. The girls and I are looking forward to going back for some hot summer afternoons. 








Watch out behind you!












Lizzy raced a tylosaurus. She lost.



Motion lab where they film an activity and then play it back in slo mo. 


Sunday, March 15, 2015

Christmas Videos

Christmas Videos

Santa Gifts on Christmas morning. The girls were acting very unenthusiastic this year. (I hope this isn't what I have to look forward to with teenagers!) They never did decide what they wanted for Christmas this year so Santa had a hard time.



Reading the Christmas Story with Daddy



Opening gifts on Christmas night. In our family you have to sing a carol for your gift.





Grandpa thinks he's funny choosing the longest song. Next year, we'll make him perform it solo!




Christmas 2014 Part 2

Photos from my phone































 



 Picasa makes a mini video out of all pictures that look similar. I thought this was funny.