It's time to PARTY!

For Andrew's birthday we started off the morning going to our ward party, then the kids were dying to make a snowman with him. Then Andrew and I went out to dinner and a movie.

 Happy Birthday Andrew!

We love Love LOVE YOU!

 Because Andrew's birthday is so close to my 2 brothers, we almost always just party all together.

This year we had a nurf gun war at my Dad warehouse.
It was awesome.
I can only imagine what it will be when all these little kids get a few years older and then it will be mayhem!

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I had an awesome birthday surprise this year...

Seriously.. 

Watch. 

 Ok, so the video is a little anti climactic..
(You will learn what awesome deep sleepers I have, and why I want to redo my bedroom :)
but hey,
 My sister and her kids flew in from Chicago and surprised me!
(Thank you Brad and Sara Rencher for flying them out! I was lucky enough to have a birthday close to Brad's :)
I loved it.. and so did my kids.
They woke us up and took us to Sills for a HUGE breakfast!

 I love my family. Thanks Dad for treating all of us to breakfast!

 There is NOTHING I love MORE than spending time with those I love.

It was great having Haley and Mitch in town because it brought the rest of my family down to my Mom's on the weekday of June 20th.

We hung out at my Mom's all day and just let the kids play, then had dinner, and the best part.. played games until early in the morning.
I love playing games, and since Haley and Mitch moved, our late night gaming has almost dissapeared.
So Haley and Sadie made us some Yummy cookies to start it all off!

Then later we took Haley and her kids to Cherry Hill to join in on some summer fun.

Thanks again Brad and Sara for making it possible to have my sister and her sweet family home for my birthday!! It made for a great surprise and an awesome family gathering/party!

I LOVED IT!

Eating Green ;)

You might think this post is about us eating healthy greens and being awesome that way..

Well.. its not.

Hah! Mostly just trying to join in with the tradition of eating/turning almost everything GREEN on St. Patricks day!

I have been experimenting a bit lately with making homemade yogurt.

My first batch was a bit runny.. not as thick as I would have hoped... Ohh well.. Still tasted good! So, we decided to make a smoothie out of it instead of letting my kids drip it all over with a spoon.

Because of St. P day... we experimented with a 

key lime yogurt smoothie....

1/2 lime

handful spinach

little bit of ice

and a lot of runny yogurt :)

We LOVED IT!

I guess with that much yogurt you can't go wrong :)

The kids inhaled it, and Andrew said "Mommy can make this anytime she wants to!" 

(he is the best ever :)

Needless to say, We had to make 2 batches... one we all shared.. then the next..

All Andrew's 2nds :D

So here we go again for a little bit of St. P pintrest food fun.

Mini Green German pancake clovers

  Lunch with a leprechaun and a pot of gold surrounded by green fruits.

   

 

  I got the stuff to make these cute little cups with my activity day girls :)

   

Ohh.. And I had a lot of fun with rainbows too.. in fact,

I liked my rainbows the best ;)

 

  

  

  

 

  

Green Chicken Pesto Alfredo, Green Jello, Green Salad, Green Key Lime Soda, Green Honey Butter for our 3 Leaf Clover Rolls, and a Fruit Rainbow landing in a pot of Chocolate Gold :)

Happy St. Patrick's Day!