Memorial Day Weekend (1 month late)

Memorial Day was such a busy weekend for us! We celebrated J's birthday, played outside and played in the backyard pool for the first time this summer!

His last picture as a one year old 😭😭😭

On Saturday, we woke up and sang Happy Birthday to J, opened presents, ate some yummy breakfast and headed to the Dallas Zoo to celebrate the birthday boy.

We had balloons all over the living room floor when he woke up. (still not fully awake in this picture)

I always decorate the birthday child's bedroom door and the kitchen table. It is just something special that I love doing for them. I usually get the decorations from Dollar Tree and use the banners from their birthday parties. See that Happy Birthday chair seat cover? I got that at the Dollar Tree for ONE DOLLAR. I mean how cute is it???

He played with some of his presents before breakfast. The drum set was a huge hit but getting a non blurry picture didn't happen.

We went to the Dallas Zoo and we had a BLAST!! We played in the children's area, petted goats, saw tons of animals, and fed the giraffes. J's favorite parts were feeding the giraffes (which he talked about all day) and the gorillas.

 The kids in front of the BIG sign at the zoo 

I love the children's area here. Super cute play area and petting zoo area for the kids to play.

The kids loved taking pictures with all the statues of animals they had all over the zoo 😂

J giving the chimpanzee a kiss 

I just love this picture so much. They were checking each other out a lot. 

My cute little birthday boy

Feeding the giraffes! Such a fun experience to do! 

I love this picture of our family of four! 

We came home and played in the backyard with his new t-ball set and soccer goals and new soccer ball.

I made J's birthday cake for the day (gluten and dairy free) and decorated it really pretty.

We ate one of his favorite meals of BBQ meatballs and then we sang Happy Birthday and had cake!

 We then ended the day playing with the filters on Instagram because my children think they are hilarious.

The rest of the weekend we spend playing outside and in the blow up pool in the backyard. Living the high life y'all. It was such a great weekend. Loved, loved, loved it! 

Party and Recital weekend!

We had a busy weekend the weekend before Memorial Day! It was E's recital day and we planned J's birthday party for earlier in the day. Jason's mom had flown in to see E and her recital so we decided to have the party the same weekend.

J LOVES Little Einsteins. He can sing the entire theme song and asks to watch it by patting his hands on his legs (which if you haven't seen the show you probably won't get.) So he obviously had to have a Little Einsteins party. There is very little decorating stuff out there because it is such an old show but I think it came together quite nicely. We had it at this really cool park in a nearby town. It almost didn't happen at the park because the forecast was calling for rain all week. I prayed and prayed because I really didn't want it at my house and on Saturday morning, it was cloudy but rain chances were at 10%!!! Yippee!

Anyways, the party was a lot of fun and the birthday boy had fun playing at the park and eating cake!

My babysitter is really good at drawing and I asked her to draw a picture of Rocket and Annie, Leo, Quincy, and June. I just showed her a picture and she did this:

Is this not amazing? I used it as the photo op place for all the kids! Now it's hanging in J's room and he loves it! 

I did not make these cupcakes, but I did make the cupcake toppers. I used some print off that the Disney website lets you print off, and I made toppers out of them.


I made these by using those little circle fans,  printing off this template here and then gluing them inside these pails with some fabric for decoration.

I bought this banner off Easy and the

 

Those musical note sugar cookies are gluten and dairy free and they were amazing. So so good. I got the recipe here.


The kids had a ton of fun playing at the playground. They even had a nature walk area that the kids went exploring and there were a ton of painted rocks left by people to find!

They found ants and were very intrigued. 😆

After we played for a good hour, we had cake! I made this cake (gluten and dairy free). I bought the Little Einsteins print off a website and stuck it on there. It came out pretty well I think. 

The wind kept blowing out the candle so we had to resort to this. 

We sang Happy Birthday and everyone enjoyed the yummy cake or cupcake. 

We took a picture with all the kids in front of Rocket and then family photos. E and J loved that their MawMaw was there for the weekend. 

I love my family so much! It was such a great day to celebrate our little sweet boy! 

When we got home, J went down for a nap, and I got E ready for her recital later that afternoon. I was one of the room moms so I stayed with E's class the whole time. To watch this little girl dance is a complete joy of mine. She loves it,  and I love watching her. She did a tap and ballet dance this year and did fantastic.

These stage pictures were taken at rehearsal since we can't take pictures during the actual recital

This is E with her dance teacher, Miss Lindsay. She learned so much from her this year. 

Right before the recital started with my sweet girl 

They had a cute little photo op place to take pictures with your dancer out in the foyer. We had a lot of fun with our poses.

Such a fun and memorable weekend with my kiddos! I can't believe another year of dance is over, and we celebrated another birthday. Crazy how quickly it goes!