What happens when you combine an egg hunt, two bounce houses, and a whole mess of kids?

A Fitzula birthday party of course!

We got to celebrate Lilly turning 3 and MJ turning 1 with only the best of parties. There were two bounce houses for the kids (and adults) to play in along with a candy filled egg hunt!

Lilly filled her basket quickly with some of the 500 eggs that were hidden, and left them at my feet to gather up more!

Then it was time to sing "happy birthday" first around Lilly's purple princess cake.

Then around MJ's #1 car cake.

Although, I would love to take credit for their beautiful cakes, they were bought from a local baker....Christy Harrell owner of Beach Bakery here in MHC....look her up if you need a cake.

Then we opened some gifts, of which we slyly packed some away so we can pull them out on a rainy day. Lilly's current favorites are her Logan Dress, princess sing along, and DVD of Snow white. I'm sure others will quickly make her list when we allow her to have them.

Then it was time for more jumping, sliding, and having a grand ole' time. We managed to have NO injuries, and the kids LOVED every minute of it! Hurray for birthday parties!

Happy Birthday to my babies!!

We have the joy of celebrating our kids birthday on the same day...what a great thing...Fitz loves it since he only has to remember one day! The day started with gifts for the kids; Lilly got her princess dress for us, and a set of magnetic building things (magnaforms) from MJ. MJ got a a lifetime fishing liscence from us, and a toy telephone from Lilly. Since their party is not for a few weeks, the only other gifts they got to open were for close friends who came by for some cupcakes.

The weather was BEAUTIFUL, so we started with breakfast outside. Lilly was on to outfit #2 by this time, and she just HAD to weather her Cinderella Dress! MJ loved eating outside and watching all of the birds in the sky.

After we made our birthday shirts (3 for Lilly and 1 for MJ). It was time to do some swinging. And if you know my kids at all, it was not a surprise that they ended up nudie! It was so nice to be able to enjoy the outside! During this time, Dada was tilling the would be garden so we could plant. Lilly wanted to plant flowers for her birthday, so our next stop was to pick up some flowers, veggies at the Newport Garden Center.

Later on in the day, we had some of Lilly's good buddies over for a cookout. The girls gathered around the table for some burgers and dogs. They had to finish before we could move on to cake!

YAY for cake!!!

The night ended with some baths, hats and hugs! We are looking forward to the big party with weekend, and having all of Lilly and MJ's friends over for food, fun, and an egg hunt! It's so nice to have a "theme" already build in to birthday parties! If only it was not such a pain to fill the eggs...at least they are already done....all 500 of them!

April Fool's Day

It's 8:45am and our family has already been going strong for 2 or more hours. We have slipped back into cooler then normal weather for this time of year and I think it is putting everyone in less then happy moods. I think we are in desperate need of some warm weather and time outside. In the mean time, we have been staying busy....Lilly has become quite the actress and LOVES to dress up and play the "watch me" game. You know..."hey (blank), watch me do this"..then said adult had to "ohh and ahhh" over whatever it is that she did. We are really looking forward to her birthday since she will get yet another dress up dress. MJ is practcing walking but has not taken his first steps yet. maybe soon?!

Tomorrow Lilly will "run" her first road race. It's a mile fun run....I will hopefully, be able to take lots of photos!