Whitney's 5th Birthday party!

This is a picture of Whitney on her real birthday Jan. 5 It was her "golden" birthday. She turned 5 on the 5th. Notice her red sparkley shoes! Yay!

Here she is opening some presents.

Opening some more, I love 5 year old parties, the kids are so excited to give their presents to the birthday girl (or boy) that you have to tell them to sit down at least 100 times... :)

It was a little crazy but a lot of fun! We had two tables full of kids here is one we have Courtney, Halli, Arin, Tyler, Dylan, Anna and Peyton.

Here is the second table, we have Aubrey, Jonathon, Madison, Lehua, Kawailani, Gywn, Abby, and Whitney! 15 kids! I think they all had fun!

Here's the birthday girl blowing out the candles, Dan gets trick ones every year, it was no exception this year. He never seems to get tired of them...

Here's the cake, she wanted a unicorn cake, so I got creative and this is what I came up with.

Wasn't it cute! She loved it! All in all the party went well. We did pass the unicorn, decorated their hats, had a clue hunt, ate cake and opened presents. What kid wouldn't have had fun?

Oh and you may have noticed on the 5th her hair was long and today the 10th it is a cute little bob. She really wanted short hair so as part of her B-day I took her to get her hair cut, I didn't even do it. She got a pro! :)

one more snow picture

My little goofballs made snow hats, thought you might like to see them! Whitney said hers was too heavy and took it off right after the picture. Aubrey wore hers for about 10 minutes. They are so silly.

New years

Ok you would think that with as many posts as I have done I would learn that they load backwards! The ones you add last go first. So when trying to do things in order it always ends up backwards, so if you want to see this in the CORRECT order go down and work your way up! :)

The little chef's and their mochi.

close up of the finished (well before cooking) mochi

Whit loved that her hands were bright pink!

In the bowl ready to be made into balls, Dan and I just did boring ol' white.

Here's Aubrey doing the same thing as Whitney. Aubrey chose blue and Whitney chose red. Next time we do this we will use less food coloring, they came out really bright!

Here's Whit forming a mochi ball





We couldn't find plain mochi anywhere, and since this is part of our tradition for New years we went online and found some simple recipes. Courtney really wanted to help so above is her mochi.

Christmas

Ok, I realize I am a bit late posting these Christmas pics, but better late than never right?

Little Messy Missy lived up to her name eating every chocolate in sight, she got it all over her pajamas, (or pajamies as Whitney calls them) and on the couch! Santa didn't forget her just cuz she is the smallest. She got that rocking horse, new socks, pajamies, books, candy and littlest pet shop stuff.

Aubrey got the sewing machine she was wanting, and some clothes, littlest pet shop, snow pants, books, webkinz cards, bella sara cards and candy. Not too shabby!

Whitney got a leapster 2, socks (which she was actually really happy about!) webkinz cards, bella sara cards, candy and clothes. She also had a pair of red sparkley shoes that fell off the sleigh and she had to wait for Santa to bring them back for her. They finally came on January 3rd. She was so happy and has rarely taken them off!

The girls decorated the tree this year. Here is the finished product.

Whitney would hang them all in the same spot!

Aubrey moved around a bit, but could only reach so high, and would ask for help. All in all it was a great Christmas. My kids were happy with there gifts and excited to give to eachother and us as well. I was expecting some tears with Whitney not getting the shoes, but nope she took it like a champ!

For those of you who don't know the story of the shoes here it is... (warning children who know Santa is REAL should not read the following!)

We saw Santa and the only thing she asked him for was Sparkley red shoes. I was then on a mission to find them. I went to five different stores, NONE had the shoes. I found pink ones and asked Whit if they would be good. She said no, I asked Santa for red. He will bring me red. I said well what if he runs out of red sparkles red is a very popular Christmas color, and she just looked at me like I was crazy. So I went online and ordered them on Dec.12 They were supposed to get here the 18th. Well the 22nd came and still no shoes. We had a terrible snow storm and UPS couldn't deliver them. I was so sad! I really wanted to give them to her, there is a guy in our ward who delivers for UPS, he couldn't get them for us either. They were on a truck with 5,000 other packages that was stuck in Bremerton. Anyway long story short they didn't make it. The thing that made it so heartbreaking is that when we went to get the girls in the morning Dan asked if they were excited and Whit said YES! He said Why? and she said FOR MY SPARKLEY RED SHOES! We both died a little inside. It was sooo sad! But like I said she knew they were coming and was ok with it no tears or anything! I couldn't believe it!

More from my Whit Whit

After giving her a lecture about how she needs to sit down and eat her food. She has a hard time focusing on her plate. She says, "Mom, when you talk I get bored" Glad to know I'm getting through! :)


She came up to me the other day and out of the blue said " Mom Santa has slaves." I said "excuse me?" And she looked slightly confused and said, "they help him make toys." I said "Oh you mean elves." And she looked slightly embarrassed and said "yes, elves, Mom what is a slave?" That was a longer discussion.

Before I forget.

Whitney is such a goofball. Some of the things she said today.

(With as much bad attitude as possible) "Mom your not the boss of JESUS!" to which I reply, "Nope I'm not. But I am the boss of you, and it is a big job." To which she says also with bad attitude "Hmph" So I say was that a good choice or a bad choice and she says a bad choice so I said ok then you need to say sorry, so with as much sarcasm as a 4 year old can have she said SOORRY! So that got her a time out. After 5 min she came over to me and said it much nicer, then we had a little chat about how I am the boss of her and how it is my job as the boss to keep her safe and teach her good things to think and do, and how that is a really big job and I needed her help. She said she would help... We'll see. :)

Here's another more random silly thought of hers:

"Mom did you know that I am bigger than Kawailani" (one of her friends) I said "yes you are older than her" To which she replies very matter of factly "Yeah, when she takes off her bracelet she shrinks" That made me laugh. I really don't know where she comes up with this stuff.


"Mom"
"Yes Babe" (I call them all Babe)
"I'm sick"
"Yup, you do have a little cold"
"Can I have candy because I don't feel like eating anything else."
"No"

Why would she think that just because she has a cold I would let her pig out on candy you ask? This is how her little mind works. I made spring rolls last night and she didn't want to eat them. I told her that was all she was going to get so she might as well eat them. She refused. So I figured she wasn't that hungry to begin with. Then Daddy said that she is sick and needs to eat, so she got the special burrito that she wanted. See, in her mind she is sick and needs to eat whatever it is she wants. Smart girl. Wrong, but smart. :)


Those were the gems for today, I'm sure there will be more soon!

The first time of many uses...

Here is a picture of the first snow thrower use. It was kinda fun to watch. We are both glad we bought it with all this snow!