Children's Museum

We had a nice family day spending time at the Children's Museum. We always love going there!

Our family

Caemlyn drew a picture of our family today. I love it!! She even included our dog, Roxie.

My little girl is 5!

Caemlyn turned five years old! She has been so excited for her birthday to come and has been counting down the days for months. We love having this little girl in our family. She brings us so much joy and she is sweet and caring. For Caemlyn's birthday dinner, she chose cereal. I loved it! It was a major sugar-fest. To go along with the cereal theme, I made rice krispie treat cupcakes. We had a great family celebration!

Birthday girl!

Aunt Mandy and the birthday girl

Cereal bar!

Enjoying some cereal

Wearing her new dress and shoes

Happy birthday

Rice krispie treat cupcakes

Grandma visiting

Ben's mom was able to come down to Arizona and visit with us. I appreciate all of her help with the girls and they had so much fun with Grandma. She even helped me make poodle skirts for the Father-Daughter Sock Hop.

This tiger kept pacing back and forth right in front of the glass. It really wanted to eat Brooklyn. It growled at her. Then it was starting to drool and really kept looking at her.

Father-Daughter Sock Hop Dance

The girls had so much fun at the father-daughter dance. They did a sock hop theme this year. I made poodle skirts for my girls and my two nieces. My brother was awesome and took my nieces to the dance.

Picacho Peak

In Red Rock, we are lucky enough to live next to Picacho Peak, which is a great place to hike. The weather was perfect and it was a great day to hike. We all had fun. We went as far as the little ones could handle!

Brooklyn actually walking and not being carried by Ben

Collecting rocks

Climbing rocks

Cousins

My awesome family

Mandy and I

Taking a break

Phoenix Coyotes vs New York Islanders

Ben and I had an awesome date last night! We went to our first NHL game up in Phoenix. The game was a lot of fun to watch and the Coyotes won. We ate at Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville for dinner since it was next to the arena and had great food there. I did learn a couple of things from my first NHL experience. 1) Remember a jacket. The ice arena is cold. Gloves are nice too and 2) Some hockey fans are a different breed. After the game, we went for dessert at my favorite place, Rita's Water Ice. I was a little dissappointed in the lack of flavor choices (Maybe the new Rita's have less flavors than the ones out east...I don't know), but it was still yummy!

 Cleaning the ice

All the players warming up

And my Rita's :)

My new craft, sewing, recipe blog

If you don't know me, I love to sew, craft, and cook. I do not want to post everything that I make on my family blog so I started a new blog where I will post all my latest creations. I bookmark and pin soo many things that never get completed so I am hoping this new blog helps me complete more projects. Maybe inspire other people out there in blog land!

You can stop by my new blog at Making Things for Boo, Cat, and Bam. I have only posted a few things so far, but I have been enjoying it and love having my own spot to put my projects.

Christmas 2011 Part 3

I have always bought my girls Christmas dresses. I decided to make them this year. I made my two nieces matching dresses too. I love how they turned out. The girls like them!

Christmas 2011 Part 2

On Christmas day, we went to the station and ate dinner with Ben. The crew made a yummy dinner for us. The girls had a blast playing at the station. Caemlyn loved talking to anyone who would listen and then they were her new best friend. It was nice to see Ben and he did not get one call while we were there (which is a miracle and a first). Ben's Dad followed Brooklyn around and it was a nice break for me!