Parties and Programs

This year was the Birthday I've been dreading for a while. I was leaving my twenties and entering my thirties. This really scared me. I wasn't ready to say goodbye to my twenties. I guess it hasn't been that bad. Now I'm not looking forward to the forties. That is hard to write. I don't have to worry about that for a while.

Here's my family at Hires. It was yummy! I threatened Lucas that I didn't want a big party.


Here I am modeling some of my presents...

Blowing out the candles with my two helpers...


We had the annual Belliston Family Christmas party. It's always fun to get together with my relatives because I don't get to see them very often.


Halle was excited to get Caillou for her present, but she really wanted the body wash that Jason got. She was willing to trade.



Caden had his Preschool Christmas program. He did such a good job! He was such a good singer and dancer. I think he was the only one dancing. It was pretty funny. He was nervous the whole week because he knew Santa was going to visit and he is terrified of him. I assured him that we could leave before he came. That made him feel a little better and he was willing to go. Little did I know that Santa was going to make a surprise entrance when they were singing Santa Clause is coming to town. You should've seen the look of terror on his face. He did not know what to do. When I could tell he was about to burst out in tears, I went and got him and told him he didn't have to talk to him. Boy was he relieved! We got it on video and every time we watch it he has to leave the room.





He still got to open his present from Santa. That made him happy.


Every year I have great intentions to send a Christmas card, this year was the same. Sadly I didn't get my act together to send one. Consider this my Christmas Card to everyone.

Merry Christmas!!

We've done a lot fun things so far this Christmas season. Some of them include: Forgotten Carols (Lucas' favorite), Mo Tab Christmas Concert, looking at Christmas lights, watching Christmas movies, making Christmas treats etc. etc....
We are very excited for Santa to come! Five more days!!!

Halle's 3rd Birthday!

Here's the Birthday girl on the morning of her Birthday.....

Caden is obsessed with Birthdays and he really wanted her to open the presents from him right when she woke up.

He gave her some Dora and Blue's Clues books...

And a pony...

He also made her a really nice Birthday card...


We took Caden and Halle to Chuck E Cheeses for lunch. PBS does a nice job of advertising for them, all I here is "When can we go to Chuck E Cheeses?" We got some really good deals on City Deals so we decided to go.

Halle loves pizza...



We got a lot of tokens because we thought they would be really excited to ride the rides, but all they wanted to do was play on the playground. We could've done that at McDonald's.

Halle wasn't a big fan of this ride...

They were very excited to get their picture taken with the Chuck E Cheese statue, but as we got closer to it, they were both kind of scared. (especially when it started to sing and dance)

Some more rides...




Later that night we had a party. Here's Halle the fairy princess...


Opening some presents...

Here's Halle with all the cool things she got...



I had really high hopes for Halle's fairy princess cake, but it didn't really turn out the way I wanted it to. The cake is supposed to be her dress, but it just turned into a big mess. I tried.

Blowing out the candles...


Since we are cheap and don't have cable, everyone had to watch the Jazz game on Lucas' phone.

My friend Devon was nice enough to make the decorations for Halle's party. They turned out so cute! Thank you Devon! She has her own etsy shop that she sales decorations. If anyone wants her information just let me know!






Halle is such a fun little girl! I'm so happy that I get to be her mom!

About Halle:

Favorite food-Mac and Cheese and chocolate milk
Favorite TV shows- Dora, Kai Lan, Curious George
Favorite Book- PB Bear
Favorite thing to do- Go to the Library and play with Caden

We love you Halle! Happy Birthday!!

Halloween Festivities

We did lots of fun things for Halloween this year. Sorry it's taken me a while to blog about it.

We carved a pumpkin. We bought 4 pumpkins, but I could only handle carving 1. It's such a big mess! It was still fun.



Halle didn't help much, but she's still cute...

Caden drew the face on it and Lucas carved it. Caden was very proud of his creation.


We got to go to the Hendrickson Halloween Party. Here's Darth Vader and Strawberry Shortcake. My mom made the Strawberry Shortcake costume like 30 years ago. My sisters and I all wore it. I was very excited that Halle wanted to wear it too!

We played a lot of fun games...


The donut game...
I helped Halle cheat...


Logan and Ella donated their bodies for the mummy game this year...


We decorated some sugar cookies...

Halle enjoyed putting her hands in the frosting more than decorating...

I love Neve's smile in this picture...

Caden chowing down...

Here's Adam's costume...

Heidi and Eric were Ken and Barbie from Toy Story 3. Very cute costumes!

Darth Vader and the Dragon ready to go trick or treating...(We thought the dragon costume would be a warmer choice for Halle)

Lucas made some yummy homemade bread for us on Halloween...

It was a very fun holiday this year!