Caleb's Birthday Party

Caleb's party was a success! I truly felt like I was putting on a production!! Phew, am I tired...

We had a great time in our transformed backyard, "The Emerald City". 15 kids attended and Caleb had a blast! We started with the yellow brick road in our front yard and the kids entered at The Emerald City Gate where they had to knock to be let in. Dorothy (My sister), greeted everyone as they came in. It was too fun!! Thanks to Papa, Nana & Auntie Lolo who helped us put this party together!!! Enjoy the photos...

Caleb running down our yellow brick road

Thanks to Auntie Lolo, she made Auntie Em's House I asked for...we included a hanging tornado too.

The Emerald City Gate ~Thanks to Jason who cut out the Gate from wood and Papa who painted it for me.

Caleb acting silly, as usual.

Auntie Lolo as Dorothy!

I had this crazy idea to have a hot air balloon that we could use for a photo backdrop. Thanks to Lolo for making it for me. (I just love delegating!! :)

The kids played the Dorothy Donut Drop game

All of our food was "kid friendly" and was themed like the Wizard of Oz

Harvest Festival

October 31st was the Harvest Festival at church. The boys had a blast playing games, riding the hay ride & train, jumping and sliding on the big slide and getting LOTS of candy! (Keira enjoyed being held and snoozing)

The kids were characters from Wizard of Oz. Caleb loves this movie and when I was pregnant with Keira, Caleb asked if it was a girl, could she be Dorothy. I, of course, said "yes" since I was certain we were having a boy and I wouldn't have to look for all of the costumes :). When Caleb came to the hospital, the first thing he told me and Jason was that he was right and we were wrong about Keira being a girl. (He prayed and told me we would have a baby girl). He also said, "Keira gets to dress like Dorothy". Needless to say, since the beginning of September, I 've looked for costumes and we actually pulled it off!

Caleb was Tin Man; Chaim the Scarecrow; Caden the Lion and of course, Princess Keira was Dorothy! Enjoy the photos...

Caleb turns 5!!

October 30th was Caleb's birthday and our little man turned 5!

We started the day with chocolate chip pancakes in honor of Caleb. Then Caleb headed to school. Jason and I took Wizard oz Oz cupcakes to his class in the afternoon and Caleb go to pass them out (which he loved). You can see the photo below of Caleb and his friend, Emily, who he says he is going to marry.

Then we headed home and had a small family party (including Papa & Nana) at our house. Caleb's big party is Friday with a Wizard of Oz Party, but he also wanted High School Musical, so that's what we had at home. Caleb picked pizza for our meal. We had a great night and he LOVED his new Razor Scooter.

Memory Verses ~ Too Cute!

We've been working on teaching the boys scripture. Jason picks one a week and they have to recite it on Fridays (then ice cream is usually involved!)

The verse this week is Joshua 1:8.
8 Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.

This is Caden's version of the first part of the verse...
Do not let this Book of the Law DEPARK from your mouth; MEDICATE on it day and night...

As we were sitting at the dinner table last night, Jason said, "It is probably a good idea that we PARK God's word in our mouth and it is good MEDICATION!!"