Circus Bash!!

*Beware* this Wordless Wednesday post is jam-packed full of photos!  I promise lots of pictures, with very few words!

This weekend was the Munro Kids Circus Bash birthday!!  Alex, Julia and I worked none stop from Friday evening until the party started at 1pm on Sunday!!  It went off perfectly, even if a ton of people showed up that didn’t RSVP, but that’s another story! 

 

The Circus Set-Up

Alex & I blew up nearly 400 helium balloons!


Inside was set-up like a circus tent.  We used tulle for the outer part of the tent and then a whole lotta crepe paper for the rest!  It took Alex & I about 4 hours to get it all done!  A lot of work, but looked awesome! 


Julia came up with a way to set-up a game section!  Looks pretty good doesn’t it!  We had 4 games for the kids to play, they were all a hit!

 
Looking down at the Circus Bash!
 

Cake Time!

The cake table!

The clown cupcake cake, yes Julia made that! 
I did the writing on the kids individual cakes :)


Yep, those are cupcakes!!
We cut marshmallows for the popcorn and then sprayed them with spray food coloring to give them a butter look!


1, 2, 3…BLOW!!!

 

Miscellaneous Pictures!

Girls going down the bouncy house slide!

   
Munro Family


Minus the boys!

                                                       The kids with the clown!
                                              Emmalee, Myself & Maddie walking!

I have LOTS more photos to share and will do so over the next couple of days!!  So stay tuned :)

This post is part of Wordless Wednesday on the following blogs:
Wordless Wednesday’s
Live and Love…Out Loud
Seven Clown Circus
A Beautiful Mess
It's A Blog Party

Craft Time: Dobbers & Stickers

The triplets love crafts, and I try to do one with them every day, sometimes are more successful the others!  If you’re new to my blog here are some of the crafts the kids and I have done over the years:

• Pudding Painting (scroll through the pictures to see the pudding painting pics!)
• Finger Painting
• Playdoh

One of the triplets favorite crafts is using BINGO dobbers to paint with!  Where did I get the idea of BINGO dobbers for crafts?  On my cruise a few months ago, my cousins and I went to play BINGO almost daily.  On the last day of the cruise people were tossing their dobbers in the trash, I on the other hand had big plans for them!  I happily collected TONS of bingo dobbers from fellow patrons!  No lie, I probably packed 30 bingo dobbers home with me! 

 Brandi & I showing off all the dobbers I collected after the final BINGO game!  Sorry there’s a bad glare, I blame that (haha, see my last post) on my sister Alex who was taking the photo and failed to mention the glare!

I get the dobbers out, the kids grab the ones they want and then go at it!  Sometimes they ‘dob’ other times they ‘paint’ with them, either way they have fun!  We also have a big box of stickers, I dumb the box out and they have a hay day with adding stickers to their masterpieces!

The Masterpieces the triplets made today!

Dobbers are a CHEAP and fun craft activity for young kids, especially if you don’t want to deal with the messiness of real paint!  I bought several lots of stickers on Ebay, just random stickers.  Doesn’t matter what the stickers are, they just love sticking them on paper!  Oddly enough, toddlers always seem to stick their stickers on top of each other…strange! 

We’re always looking for craft ideas, what are some of your favorite kids crafts?!

A Day At The Woodland Park Zoo!

It had been over a year since my last trip to the Woodland Park Zoo (click HERE to see my last trip to the zoo!), so I was excited to take a trip and wander around!Zak’s best friend Zac (original names huh?!) came into town with his daughter Bailey, so Jaime offered to take Bailey with us to the zoo too!  So Brandi, Jaime, Bailey, Madison, Emmalee and I all headed into Seattle for some zoo fun!!

Look Mom!  A Gorilla!!

   
So cute!  Giving us a big smile with teeth and all!! 

Emmalee insisted on PUSHING the stroller, Maddie rode in it, go figure!

All three girls LOVED the flamingos!  Emma held on to the railing and refused to let go when it was time to move on! 

Bailey & Jaime

 
Left: Madison posing in front of “her” family, Mom, Dad, her & Emma
Right: Emmalee & Bailey (Jaime too), posing on the hippo

We got to watch the giraffe’s go for a walk, it was pretty cool!!


The girls posing on Hansa the Elephants favorite toy ball!

 
Both of us with our crazy frizzy hair :-)

At the Woodland Park Zoo, the Tapirs ALWAYS sit with their butt’s against the window.  Is that normal at all zoo’s??!


Who doesn’t love an elephant?!!


Madison loved reading the map and directing us which way to go!

 
Madison resting on Brandi’s shoulder!  It’s a lot of walking at the zoo!

 
The Meerkat exhibit was the newest exhibit of the zoo!  First time any of us had seen it!  They are pretty cute little creatures!

 
Emma & I standing near the Meerkat exhibit!


Maddie, Jaime & Bailey jumped in….Emma wasn’t thrilled about that!

We had a great day, the sun came out which made the zoo 100x more enjoyable with sunshine and warmth!  Nothing like going to the zoo in the rain! 

Happy Saturday Everyone!!

Enough Stringing You All On (Kennewick Fun - Part III)

Okay, I was mean the last couple of days leaving you hanging with how we ended our Saturday fun in Kennewick.   Well, it’s your lucky day, because like I promised here’s what I strung you out with…hope you didn’t wet yourself with anticipation!  If you missed the last couple of posts, go back and check them out Kennewick Fun – Part I and Out For the Count (Kennewick Fun – Part II)!  So here we gooooooo……

At the dollar store we stocked up on SILLY STRING and WATER BALLOONS!

The Silly String was fun, but the dollar store brand doesn’t give you much!  So we quickly went through our bottles of silly string!  But don’t worry we had a blast while it lasted!

                                     

However, the REAL fun came with the water balloon fight!!  It started out nice enough.  Grandma was filling up the balloons as fast as she could, but we quickly learned that wasn’t fast enough for our impatient family, plus the balloons appeared to be faulty (darn dollar store) and wouldn’t pop on contact.  We quickly moved onto not tie the balloons and spraying the water that way!  But we still had the problem of one house filling up balloons.  So Aaron then ran insdie and brought out three large spray bottles….and the war was on!

   

I don’t remember another time that my family had so much fun together!!  Everyone got in it and had a great time!  Aaron got me good, not once, but TWICE….the same way, with a 10-gallon bucket of water.  The first time I didn’t see it coming at all, suddenly I was just overcome with witness.  The second time, I saw him out of the corner of my eyes a split second before he through water at me….again.  *sigh* Oh well, it was worth it!

What a great time we had this weekend in Kennewick!  I love spending time with my Auntie Susie, she’s the best!  We definitely had a memorable weekend, I don’t think any of us will forget about this very quickly!