Happy Bithday Sadie!!!

Sadie is six years old!!! She is soooo tall now, and I can't believe how she's changed. Kinderarten has made her seem so growing up! AHHH! Sadie is my biggest helper, she is also my comedian. We have found the joy in "knock, knock" jokes and she is a riot! I love that she wants to help me out when she can before I get the chance to ask for her help. Coloring, cutting and glueing are our favorite pastimes. Creativity she lacks none of, and I am continually impressed by the ideas and pictures she comes up with. Playing anything pretend is her favorite game, lately horses, thus all the holes in the knees of her jeans. Sadie you are a joy to our family and congrats on your special day! We love you sweetheart -
We celebrated her birthday with all our family close by. Grandma and Grandpa Bird, Uncle Cody, Uncle Buzz and Aunt Julee were all here to help us celebrate. She wanted a princess/candyland castle for her birthday this year and this is what we came up with:

Happy Birthday Lexi!!!

Princess Lexi is now three years old! Oh how we are into the princess theme for this quick witted girl. Lexi is always dressing up as a princess, a ballerina or just in a skirt to be "beautiful". Can we say laundry? She changes clothes a lot but she is so into her character when she does it is hard to be mad at her at all. I love that she is such the comic relief in our family, coming up with the funniest things!!! Lexi is my home body but you can get her to go outside and do anything for "monies". $$$$ She is really wanting to go to school but I chose to teach her pre-school at home and she really loves it. She reminds me as soon as Sadie walks out the door for school that it is her time for school. Lexi is a fantastic big sister to Haylee and my very best helper in the kitchen. She had changed so much over the past year is it amazing.
For her birthday we had a party here at the house with just the immediate family over. She chose a princess castle cake (naturally) and loved eating the pink candy corn effect. (See pictures below) Her favorite present was her new skirt I made her, which she has worn every day since. Her other favorite was the shark bath towel Grandpa and Grandma Bird gave her. And of course it was complete with "pig food" for her piggybank. It was a fun birthday for everyone.

Lexi also went to the dentist for the first time. She had her "Happy Visit" with Dr. Oliverson. All the kids call him Dr. O and Lexi kept asking me why they call him that. She is so timid in that regard for new things. I can't get her to quit singing at the top of her lungs at home but put her in the dentist office and she barley said five words. She was very excited about the treasure chest and the toys she got from it though. I hope this makes future visits more fun for her. We shall see.

Happy Birthday Haylee!

My baby is now one year old today. I can't believe she won't be such a baby anymore. Haylee is a very happy girl but when you make her mad, she goes straight to tantrum mad. Haylee laughs at everyone and everything. Her giggles are such a sweet sound to my ears. I love how she comes trucking down the hall just a giggling over something her sisters have said or did. She is a daddy's girl through and through. If a temper tantrum is inevitable, I just need to dial a certain number and a smile will appear back on her face. I think Cory enjoys being the center of her world right now. She will be crying for me one minute and as soon as she hears Cory's voice or sees him coming up the walk at night; she lights up with a twinkle in her eye and a giant grin on her face. Haylee is a big tease as well. One of the highlights of my day is when she comes to find me wherever I am and says "Mommy" while trying to run away and hide from me. Haylee can also say Dada, Keekee (for kitty and the dogs) Uh-oh, and "tank ewe" (for thank you).


I make a giant cupcake for her cake that I decorated in about twenty minutes. We weren't going to have a party because Haylee wasn't feeling well but then we decided to go ahead with it. She was one so she didn't see all the flaws in my decorating thank goodness!

Here's Sadie getting mad at Uncle Buzz because he was going to blow out Haylee's candle on her cake for her.



Finally happy after she got some cake even though she wasn't feeling well:

Grandma and Grandpa Bird got her the cutest little bath towel! Look at that cute pink zebra:

And of course what would be a birthday without "pig food" from Grandpa Bird:

A day to remember: Sadie's Birthday

There are a lot of events to catch up on so I will try to break it up a bit. December 16th was Sadie's 5th birthday. The day started out as a trip to Salmon for Haylee's four month shots and running errands. As we headed away from the District Health Department, Sadie was talking to me about her party that night and asking me questions about the details. I looked up in the mirror to look at her and smile without noticing the stop sign in front of us. We collided with another vehicle and thus ended our carefully planned day. Nobody was seriously injured, Sadie got the worst of it with a bruised up eye.

I was sore from whiplash but we were really lucky. The other two girls were just scared. My car was totaled and we had to wait for 90 minutes in the laundromat before Cory could come get us and take us all home. We were very blessed and I am humbled to think what could have happened if we weren't all wearing our seat belts.

Sadie still wanted to party when we got home. So the guests arrived and we had a great time. Her friends Brooke and Jordan came with their mom, the Herbsts, Whittakers and of course the Birds were all there. She requested a Barbie cake which I was planning to do when we came home from town but because of the events of the day, I ended up with only an hour to do it in.

Sadie was pretty shaken up over the accident, I think the party helped her put it out of her mind though. Opening presents was a major highlight along with the toys, clothes and candy she got. She will always remember this birthday for good and bad I guess. But the day turned out enjoyable for us all.

Not so Terrible Two's

First of all the pictures are dark because we took them at night and there is no light in my house to take good pictures, especially where my wall are a dark brown paneling. That will all change eventually but for now the pictures are going to be dark, Sorry!
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Lexi's birthday was on the 13th and she turned two years old. I can't believe how fast they grow! Lexi wants so bad to be a "big " girl like Sadie and it seems more often then not, she succeeds and that makes me a little sad. I'm supposed to have to little girls, not two big girls. We didn't go all out even though we should have considering her last birthday was the day we moved our last load from IF to Leadore last October. She didn't ever really get a birthday but she got one this year! Lexi likes to sing and when she sings "Happy Birthday" to anyone it comes out "Happy to you". So she sang that all day. I had Sadie color a big poster to hang up on the wall and little pages of birthday pictures to decorate the house. Sadie's masterpiece was our family "portrait". She even colored a dog for Tuff:

We just had Grandpa and Grandma Bird, Uncle Cody, Uncle Buzz and our family get together for a party. She was so excited about every present. It was great to watch her reactions. Uncle Cody and Uncle Buzz got the best reaction by giving her some cans of Cream Soda. She wanted to open them right away.

She got some new clothes, and PJ's from Grandma and Grandpa Bird which she liked too. I wanted to take her picture holding the PJ's and this is how she held them while she said "Cheese":

She also got lots of dress up and princess stuff. She is so into that lately. Her new favorite movie is Barbie and the Diamond Castle. She would watch it twice a day or more if I let her.

I let Lexi and Sadie help me decorate her Diamond Castle cake. We had lots of fun making messes in the kitchen and decorating. The clean up wasn't as fun but it was worth it. The girls are already talking about doing the next cake for Grandpa Bird's birthday on the 28th! They enjoy decorating like I do which makes it a mom and daughter time we can do!