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Make sure you check out the Circus Bash!! blog post from couple days ago, it was the party of the year and everyone’s talking about it :-)
Today I’m highlighting the younger “twins” from each set, Connor and MacKenzie! If you missed yesterday’s post, make sure you check out the photos of Aiden & Annika!
Happy Birthday Connor and
MacKenzie!!
This was a fantastic party!! It was a lot of work in prepping, but totally worth it in the end!!
If you missed out on the Circus Bash!! blog post a couple days ago, make sure you hop over and check it out!! Today I’m highlighting the oldest of both sets of “twins”…I put “twins” in quotes, because the boys are legitimate twins, the girls not so much…but they’re only 6 weeks apart in age so most assume they’re twins. So there ya go!
Happy Birthday Aiden & Annika!!!
Stay tuned for Connor & MacKenzie’s pictures tomorrow!!
*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
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
A couple days ago, Amy brought her girls over to play with the triplets, along with her niece Emilia who she is now nannying for. Emilia is 6 months old, and is quite the cutie!! I told Amy, that these photos were blog-worthy :-)
Prepping for the BIG birthday extravaganza tomorrow at the Munro’s household! They are doing a joint birthday for all four kids since their birthday’s are all within 6 weeks of each other! So Alex & I have been busily helping prep and decorate! Julia goes all out for her parties and this one is no exception! Just wait…you’ll be blown away!! So until then….
Seriously??!! The Munro’s are in the paper again! It was just a couple weeks ago that Annika appeared in the newspaper and a couple months before that when Julia & I appeared in the newspaper! Craziness!
This time it was the Connor & Abby & Charlie (Mackenzie is in it if you look closely too!) that made the HeraldNet Newspaper’s Photo Section with a photo from our day at the Stanwood-Camano Fair! Click HERE to see the actual photo on the HeraldNet site or check out the photo below!
Happy Friday everybody!!
When this weeks Writers Workshop Writing Prompts from Mama's Losin' It were posted, I immediately new which one to go with….
3.) The most unbelievable blue eyes you’ve ever seen…
Two beautiful babies with blue eyes, popped into my mind. I then contacted their mom’s and asked for one of their favorite photos showcasing those stunning baby blues!
Love both of these little girls so much, and don’t they have the most beautiful blue eyes you’ve ever seen!! Gorgeous girls! Their parents need to keep their eyes on them when they grow up!!
This is how WE do the fair!
We started by …..
Each of the kids was able to feed the alpaca’s. They even were (once again) photo-interviewed by the newspaper while they were feeding them! It was really cute!
There were 12 new baby piglets who were born last week. We arrived right at feeding time, and Oh.My.Gosh. those piglets were hysterical when they wanted to eat. All 12 of them at once. Heaven help mama pig!
Then We…..
We did this last year, and when Charlie saw the display again, he made a beeline for the booth! Alex, Julia, Molly & I spent a good hour helping each of the 7 kids make their own wooden boat. We hammered, glued and drilled till we were tired, and then we started on another boat! Let’s just say we were more than ready to get out of that booth! Molly even made the comment “It’s a good thing we did this early, I would have been out of energy by the end of the day!” So true, so very true!
It was then finally time to go on…..
This is all the kids wanted to do from the moment we got there, who am I kidding?! From the moment they woke up! They were very excited to get their turn to ride the rides, and ride those rides we did! Again, and again, and again, and again!
The ride highlight was the Hang Gliding ride. The kids (Charlie & Up) were able to go on this, along with the adults. Poor Alex, I think road it three times in a row with the kids. Julia & I were well done, and ready to puke after one trip!
One other funny story was Connor wanted to so badly to go on the Haunted House ride. No one wanted to go with him, except 3-year-old Kjell, who had no idea what the ride was. Right as the ride started, before even going into the dark, Connor panics and jumps out screaming. We tell Kjell to climb out, Kjell doesn’t want to. Kjell wanted to ride the ride. The look on Kjell’s face when he came out was priceless. I wish we would have gotten a picture of it. (Sad isn’t it!). But don’t worry, he happily went on it again with his big brother Charlie a little bit later, so it couldn’t have been that scary. However, his second trip he covered his eyes the whole time!
Before we left Abby, Connor & Aiden were begging us to go on the Gravitron. Yes, the ride where you go in the spaceship looking thing, and then it spins so fast it feels like there’s no gravity. Julia gave in (when Molly, Alex & I had the little kids on another ride) and let the three go on it. When they got out they WANTED TO DO IT AGAIN! Wow! That’s some serious guts, not to mention strong stomachs for not losing their lunch!
And then right before, we left we all…..
Some of us had ice cream while others had elephant ears and cotton candy!
So, how do you do A fair?!
What a great time we had at the Stanwood-Camano Island Fair this year! The kids were older than last year and new memories were made! What a fun day! Nothing better than going to a good old country fair!
I was able to spend Friday & Saturday babysitting some wonderful kids overnight while they’re mom and dad went away for some R&R. Miss L, Miss E and Mr. B have their own….BOUNCY HOUSE! I packed up the kids, the bouncy house and we headed over to the triplets to play! Oh.My.Gosh the kids had fun! I’m now working on talking Kim into buying one for us [the triplets of course]! It easily entertained all the kids for 3 hours, and let me tell you we [Jaime was working for Kim] had our hands full….an 8, 6, and 4 year old, four 3 year olds and two 1 year olds! Yes it looked like a Jaime & I had a daycare, but honestly we do on most days!
Today the kids and I went to the Factoria Childrens Museum with Brandi, Ems and Madzy. We had a blast! I have to say I wore out those 3 kids! The 3 and 1 year old were out cold when Mom got home! Yep, I’m that great :) Haha!! Brandi took lots of pictures, but she has those on her camera so you’ll have to wait until later to see them!
Alex & I are up in Camano tonight enjoying the company of Julia and her two new kittens, Cuddles & Catcher (Aiden & Connor named them!). They are sooooo cute!! Catcher is sitting on my shoulder right now while I am blogging! So adorable!!
Apparently August 4th is a popular day to have a baby. Friends Cheryl & Courtney have birthdays today, my ASL teacher’s birthday is also today. There is also a handful of famous people who share their day of birth Barack Obama, Cole & Dylan Sprouse, Louis Armstrong and the Queen Mother Elizabeth to name a few. But (sorry) none of those are as important as two people in my family…..
My Daddy & Annika
I love my daddy!! His birthday always was important to me, not because I love my daddy and think he’s the bestest (which I do), but it means once his birthday comes its 20 days until mine! (Yep, I’m vain, I love myself, and my birthday!). I assume tonight we’ll have a birthday celebration for him and celebrate his birthday with extended family in the next week? Not 100% sure on that!
Cruise February 2010
On to Annika…..three years ago this little girl was brought into our lives through adoption. Unfortunately, she didn’t stay with us very long. After 2 failed adoption attempts, last October she finally came home at just over 2 years old! So today is our first REAL birthday with Miss Annika Brooke! I wish I could be up celebrating with her, but I can’t! I’ll be up this weekend, and cannot wait to hear all about it!
*Apparently Alec thinks it looks like a purple spiders web, I think it looks more like a purple turtle :)*
Happy Birthday To You!
Happy Birthday To YOU!
Happy Birthday to Dad & Annika!
Happy Birthday To You!!!
Happy Birthday to YOU too if today is your birthday!!! If not, I hope your August 4th is a great one!!
First it was Jaime & my mom that appeared in the news paper (wish I had thought ahead to make a copy of the paper!). Then a couple of weeks ago Julia & I appeared in it….and now it’s Julia’s kids that are the stars!
There’s a brand new playground in/on (what’s the correct way to say it?) Camano, and the Munro’s were one of the first kids there to play on it! The twins got interviewed and Annika got her picture in the paper [note: they miss-identified the photo, they wrote Mackenzie when it really was Annika).
Check out the story HERE or read it below!
The triplets, Amy, her girls and I all went to Kelsey Creek Farm today for a playgroup outing. I got lots of photos and video that I’m turning into a montage, and hope tomorrow to have it up! But ran out of time today! So until next time, my friends!
Very original title I know, I’m so exhausted this evening that I’m not feeling very creative. However, I wanted to post these pictures of Julia & I painting the twins’ room today!
The boys each of their own “color” (a common occurrence for multiples), Connor is red and Aiden is blue. So Julia wanted to find a design that would incorporate both of their colors and be something that wasn’t “to kid like”, but that they can grow with (at least the paint on the wall). She found the perfect set Tommy Hilfiger American Classic (Aiden got the blue one and Connor got the red one). After the bedding arrived, she got the great idea to do a nautical theme, which is perfect for their beachy lifestyle! So she found a design online that she liked and we tweaked it to fit the colors she chose!
We started yesterday when I was up their with Molly’s kids for the weekend. We moved the twins into Mackenzie’s room and vice-versa, to give the boys the larger room…that was a lot of work with just Julia & I, plus 7-kids who all wanted to ‘help’. We also accomplished all the taping, so today all we had to do was paint.
I got up to Camano early this morning and met up with Julia and the girls at the hardware store to buy the paint. We then headed back to their house and put the girls down for a nap before we got started!
I started painting and got a little bit done then she jumped in and quickly completed her redlines….with double coats….before I had completed the blue!! Not sure of her logic since you can see how much BLUE there was compared to her puny red line!! Oh well!
But since she finished her painting quickly, there was time for her to take photos of me working hard :)
We were able to get the boys room finished, cleaned-up and ready for them when they came home from school! They were very surprised to see that we had painted it!
Aiden on the left & Connor on the right
So here’s the finished product…Julia purchased a large (15”) red “C” and “A” that will go up on the sides of the window above the boys’ beds. So when it is finished, I’ll post that, but they haven’t arrived yet so you’ll just have to wait!
I think it turned out super cute! I didn’t take pictures of the entire room, just one corner to give you an idea of what it looks like. The stripes go all the way around the room! It looks great, I love it and another successful project for Julia & Cori!!
