here's to my family...
oliver, eliza, aaron, grandma's, grandpa's, aunts, uncles and cousins!!!!
I love you all, and I hope you enjoy these pictures....
oliver, eliza, aaron, grandma's, grandpa's, aunts, uncles and cousins!!!!
I love you all, and I hope you enjoy these pictures....
I know it's taken me long enough :O)
Happy Birthday Oliver!
3 yrs old...
we really had the best day for oliver's birthday...it was just really great because I know he felt loved, special, and just so happy to have so many fun people surrounding him.
We took him to the zoo earlier in the day, so you'll see pictures of that below!
He is crazy into construction "stuff": workers, machines, shovels, dirt, etc.....
As most of you know, we are surrounded by that EVERYWHERE around here...so that is how we decided to make him the dump truck cake...he really really thought that was cool!
I loved it so much because the kids seemed to Really enjoy themselves! Birthdays before this have been mostly for the parents...so it just made me so happy that the kids enjoyed themselves so much....they went to town with all of the tackling, laughing, and hitting (with balloons:O)...they seriously were going CRAZY with all of the balloons.
I realized the afternoon before his birthday that we hadn't "planned" anything...so I emailed Oliver's playschool friends and just invited anybody who walked by the house to join us (we live in a courtyard, so we all know each other anyway :O)... We ended up with quite the crowd, and it was just really really fun!
Thanks everybody who could make it...even on such short notice :O)
sorry, this is kind of random...but it was in with oliver's birthday pics, so I just added it here. Turtles are my favorite animal. Oliver got these shoes when he was a newborn, but he never wore them....Eliza wears them now...and they are just darling on her. SO CUTE!
THE
ZOOOOOOO!!!
oliver's birthday continued :O)
His grandma katz gave him some money for his birthday and he decided to spend it on the train ride at the zoo. I honestly have never seen 8 dollars make a kid so happy in my life! He could have ridden that train alllllll day long! He was in heaven, complete bliss! He loved it so much, and it made Aaron and I so happy to see him just GLOW! I tell you, the joys of parenthood were reaped at this very moment! Hopefully there are lots more of these moments to come!
CONSTRUCTION:
CONSTRUCTION:
Oliver hard at work....
whatever the workers were doing, oliver would try to follow them EXACTLY!
OLIVER AND ELIZA!
look at her go...
using her tongue to get the cheerio off her shoulder....
finally a hair-do that doesn't phase sister eliza!
whatever the workers were doing, oliver would try to follow them EXACTLY!Here he is placing a stake in the ground, and hammering it in (with his plastic, bob the builder hammer :O)...
He was carrying on conversations with the men at work, and they got such a kick out of him trying to follow exactly what they were doing....he loved that they would take a few minutes to talk to him and tell him what they were doing.
OLIVER AND ELIZA!my two angels...
they love eachother....
they love eachother....and they love their giraffy's!
SISTER SUZY-Q
she must ALWAYS have her hands full....
Morning time at the KATZ household!
she must ALWAYS have her hands full....she is definitely a "gatherer". Often times you will find her gathering the children's shoes from the courtyard. She wanders to their back patios, finds as many pairs of shoes as she can carry, and then takes them somewhere else...
she puts as many things into one hand as she possibly can hold; we think she does this so that she can still use her other hand for other "projects"...
Morning time at the KATZ household!often times this is a stressful time of day...both kids are hungry, and I never know which one to start with because they both need something "NOW!"
This morning was no different.
However, Aaron made a request that he wished eliza could feed herself with a spoon. To that, I said, let's see what happens if we let her try it out.
SHE WAS A PRO!
No more feeding eliza her cereal, she is on her own. This will seriously ease our morning stress about 10-fold!
look at her go...it seriously was amazing!
using her tongue to get the cheerio off her shoulder....CUTE!
finally a hair-do that doesn't phase sister eliza!Let the fun "hair-doing" begin....
10 comments:
Oh How I miss those cute little stinks. And what I would do to take them in my arms and love them till they just couldn't take any more. Thank you Joni for not being able to sleep, thank you for sharing all those fun and eventful days with us. You and Aaron are such wonderful parents. You are few of the parents that can do so much and spend so little $$. Keep up the fun life, enjoy the young as long as they will let you. One day they will want to do something silly like grow-up, go to school, go out on their own and then start a family of their own ;o) msly
Joni your kids are so adorable! I can't believe Oliver is 3! He is looking so grown up. His birthday party looked like a lot of fun. Great job on the cake! I loved the caution cone candles. You are such a fun mom!
i LOVE the pictures!! I'm glad you had fun at the zoo and that Oliver's bday was a success. It was a super yummy looking and tasting cake.
Oh, I miss you guys so much!!! I loved the pictures. They are absolutely adorable! :) Also, I have some cute hair stuff you can try on eliza... I learned some fun new clips and things to make. We need a craft day! :) I miss you and hope all is well! LOVE YA LOTS!!!
I just have to say that Oliver seriously looks like he is five! I can't get over the fact that he is only three! He is a very handsome little boy! Both of your kids are so adorable! So glad that the birthday and zoo went fantastic!
THANK YOU!!!
You know what I mean!!!
And I ment to tell you that these are the first pictures that I have seen of Eliza walking and just going out on her own. SO FUN
SLY,mom
The cake is so cute! Awesome job. Great photos, too. It looks like you're feeling more comfortable with your new camera.
LOVE IT! What a fun birthday party...very creative cake! I loved seeing all the pictures. You take wonderful pictures. sly, bean
Joni you are so cute! And your family is just adorable! Happy Birthday to Oliver. It sounds like the birthday was a huge success! Nice work on the cake, I'm very impressed. And Eliza is such a doll I love her hair, she is just beautiful! Looks like things are going well for you guys and I'm so happy for you and your cute little family:) Are you guys coming to Kanab for Thanksgiving or Christmas this year?
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