Even Pez...

deserve their own hopscotch. I saw her making this teeny tiny hopscotch and wondered what it was for. And then, Aurora the Pez, came out to play.

Tractor party

Today, we had Rusty's birthday party with his friend Ayden who is also turning 3 soon. He has been claiming a tractor party for a long time now. It's always fun for me to plan a party if it is a theme I like. For instance, Blynn is wanting a princess or hello kitty party and I am not on board for that.

Here are the invitations. Check out the stamps.

I searched everywhere for little toy tractors that I could put on top of cupcakes, but I couldn't find any. So I had to improvise with candy, which I think all the kids and some of the adults liked better anyway. I was going to get the full use out of this tractor stamp that I bought just for this party.

Fortunately we have a few tractors around here. So my dad parked 3 of them out on the grass. It looked like a farm show. And then he hooked up another tractor to a trailer and we went on a ride around the farm.

Now, as you can tell from the pictures that the decor and food appear to be the most important part of the party for me because there are hardly any pictures of Rusty, but I just got busy once the party started and forgot to take pictures. I didn't take a picture of the giftbags either and they were really cute.

We had a balloon get loose.

Mostly, I can't believe that Rusty is 3 years old.

He is so much fun to have around but he is also very 3 (which is the new 2)

He is very independent and doing things that I wouldn't expect from most 3 year olds but this guy has to compete with the older kids he's always around.

He never gets something just for himself. He always gets one for Blynn and Luke and Sam too!

So Sweet.

And he's incredibly handsome.

Score

Look at what I scored at the library. I was returning some books and I saw these vintage retro children's classics on sale for $10 for the whole set. I sprinted out to the car to get the $10 in case someone else spotted them. Look at how beautiful they are.

Look at how the binding is different colors.

And look at the covers.

And check out those color illustrations and the title page.

I sense that most of you are not nearly as excited about this as I am, but I am giggling with excitement. I feel like Christmas came early for me.

Cotton Candy

This boy can inhale cotton candy.

Jane and Michael....

Banks.

We just got back from Disneyland (getting full use out of our annual passes) for Todd and Rusty's birthdays. Blynn and Rusty have been really into Mary Poppins for awhile now and we were excited when they got to meet them, although Rusty would have nothing to do with real people characters. I can't blame him, they are a different breed.

But the kids were very into seeing the characters this time around, which meant a lot less rides, but oh well.

Rusty could care less about meeting Pooh and Eeyore, he just was focused on meeting Tigger because he is orange.

Watching a parade.

This is my favorite pose to duplicate. It never gets old to me. I would like to note that I did go on a roller coaster this time around because Blynn has been begging me too. Note that Todd has never talked me into going on a roller coaster. Anyway, the roller coaster I chose to share with Blynn was the one in ToonTown. Listen folks, it is 40 seconds of sheer terror. Again confirming that I do not like roller coasters. I also saw Captain EO for the first time, that's right, they've brought it back. Did you think they weren't going to capitalize on that? Anyway, Todd was teasing me that I'd never seen it so we watched it. The crowd was very interactive and cheering. I couldn't believe all the mullets.

Sherri projects

I have done a couple of projects around the house that make me smile because they both have to do with Sherri, Todd's mom. The silhouette I just framed was one we found when we were cleaning out the house they lived in. I really love seeing her face all the time again.

The other is from her doodle pad when she was dating Russ, Todd's dad. She had sheets and sheets of the word Russ or Russell, but I knew I wanted to do something with this page. It's almost like she knew.