May 2012 - Sophia Turns 6!

May 9th we celebrated Kyle's birthday.  The kids were excited to decorate his cake.  Sophia piped on a truck and a person as well as a border on top and added lots of sprinkles.  Griffin piped on lots of "snakes" and dumped on some more sprinkles.  They had fun making Dad's cake so special.

 May 29th was Sophia's 6th birthday.  We had her party on Memorial Day - it was a bird theme, of course.  She's been completely infatuated with birds all year.  I let her plan almost all of her party decorations this year.  She had a lot of fun with it. 

She wanted a jungle cake with a waterfall so that she could place all her toy birds all over it.  I also let her add fresh flowers all over it (which saved me lots of decorating time).

Kimberly had stayed the night before the party and was a great help.  She thought of putting all the party favors in the bird cage Sophia keeps in her room.

Here's the big birthday girl excited to blow out the candles!

Here's little baby cousin Ty enjoying himself at the party.  Soooo cute!

 

The day of her birthday was a school day, so Griffin and I brought some cupcakes in at party time.  He loves Kindergarten. :o)  He's signed up for preschool next fall and is really looking forward to it.  We've got some more potty training to do this summer, but he's doing really well with that also.  Sophia's friends were all soooo excited about her cupcakes (that I made) and lots of the kids mentioned that they were the best ones all year!  We put a topper on each cupcake that was a bird sticker for each kid to keep.  They loved it and it was so simple!

Sophia had another spectacular birthday and received tons of cute clothes (most with birds on them) and some really fun games and great gift cards.  Thank you so much to those who came and helped make her feel so loved and special and spoiled.  Can't believe my baby girl is six!!

A Busy April - Part 2

As promised - here's more of our fun month of April...  Easter was the day after Griffin's birthday.  Pretty exciting weekend for the kids.  Lots of treats involved!

Yum - chocolate!!

After church we decided to go for a visit to see baby Nina (and Kora), who was in the hospital under the special lights to help with her jaundice.  It was such a beautiful day we took the chevelle out.  The kids love riding in the race car!

After the hospital visit we headed to Hearthfire for a yummy Easter lunch with the Hussey crowd.  After that, our little family of four took a walk along the water downtown Oly.  The kids played at the park at Percival landing.  It was so lovely and gorgeous - a perfect day! 

Later that week, Kyle got the phone call he'd been waiting for for months and months... His new boat was ready for him to pick up!  He's so excited about this new boat and big motor!

I don't know who had more fun - Kyle or his Dad.  They were in heaven!  Fastest boat on the lake... 

That same day we got the boat, Sophia and I had tickets to go see the Cinderella ballet that our studio put on.  It was a great show, and such a fun treat to get some special alone time with my big girl.  She's so grown up these days, but we don't get a lot of time to do special big girl things as often as I'd like.  It really was a nice time for both of us.

Here are a couple more cute pictures.

Griffin gets so busy working sometimes - just no time to play at all. :o)

Here we are taking full advantage of one of our hottest days in April ever!  So gorgeous.  We had the water table out, the kids ran through the sprinkler, and of course we had to have some ice cream cones!

I think I'll stop here and do one more post to finish out the month... Later, of course.  :o)  Have a great day!

A Busy April - Part 1

To start the month off  we welcomed a new cousin for the kids!  These five cousins were so excited to meet the newest one - little Nina Christine.  What a doll!

 Sophia 5 1/2 yrs, Baby Ty 4 1/2 mos, Griffin almost 3,

Abigail 2 1/2 yrs, Baby Don 10 1/2 mos

 Nina - 1 day  :o)

A few days later it was time to celebrate my little man's 3rd birthday!  Griffin wanted to have a race car theme this year, and his favorite color is green - so this is what we came up with...

 Oh the excitement of all the new gifts and all the family and friends that came to celebrate!  Little cousin Abby was having a great time, too!

 Time to make a wish!

Well, I think his wish came true.  Uncle Monty was in the mood to get outside and take a chainsaw to some of our fallen branches, so Daddy and Griffin got the tractor out and went to work too.  This boy loves to be a workin' man.  He had to get his work gloves, hard hat, and saw.

The rest of us took advantage of the beautiful weather and also went outside.  It was so fun and relaxing!

The little workin' man finally had to take a snack break...

 Baby Don needed a little snack too!  Such a big boy himself these days!

It was a really fun party.  Thank you to everyone who came and gave Griffin such fun gifts.  He has been very busy the last few weeks playing with everything.  Hopefully I'll get around to posting part 2 of this April post tomorrow night... 

2012 Kindergarten Class Picture

Can you find my little ray of sunshine?  :o)

A New Niece

Kyle and I are so excited about our new niece, Nina Christine Minton.  Nick and Kora welcomed their first baby on Monday, April 2nd.  Kora's water broke around 2:00 a.m. Monday morning and she labored all day and pushed for a loooong time.  Nina finally came out to greet us on Monday evening.  She was 6 lbs. 11 oz, and 18 1/2 inches long.  She's so dainty and absolutely adorable.  Mom and dad are very tired, but all three are doing well as they adjust to life as a family of three.  I'm so excited to watch this little lady grow up.  Love you, Nick and Kora!  Congratulations!  Click HERE for more pictures on Kodak!

Oldies but Goodies

I'm reorganizing a lot of things in the house right now and came across a few fun old photos of the Hussey kids circa 1978..  Big sister Michelle and twinners Kyle and Kimberly.  Cute!

A little older in this next one with Peter Cottontail.

Things that make me happy....

Although, I always feel a little sad for these little guys when they are covered with frost or snow.  But mostly - this just makes me excited for spring!  I mowed the lawn last Sunday and weeded a couple of my flowers beds yesterday.  Now to deal with all the moss growing in our lawn...  Maybe I'll have Kyle do that. ;o)

Griffin's First Visit to the Dentist

Griffin had his first dental check-up today and did awesome!  I recently got both kids in with Dr. Kapust in Tumwater. Formerly, Sophia had been seeing Kyle's uncle for dental check-ups.  But Uncle George/Dr. Hussey is way up in Marysville and it's a little too far out of the way sometimes!  I chose Dr. Kapust because (1) I went to his father (also Dr. Kapust) my entire childhood, (2) because he is a pediatric dentist, and (3) because he also does orthodontics.  Griffin was a VERY good boy (as I expected).  Dr. Kapust and the hygienist each mentioned that little boys Griffin's age don't ever do that well!  Way to go, Griffin!

 

Sophia had her appointment last week and also had a great check-up.  She had some sealants put on her molars as well as her regular cleaning.  They both love the stuffies with big teeth and the oversized toothbrushes to play with.

Proud of my little ones and how well they brush and floss!

February

February went by pretty quickly! Even with the extra day. :o)  Here is a little recap of our month...

Baby Don and Griffin - pretty good little buddies. We had to do a little photo shoot of them in their little boy/big boy matching jammies.

Valentine's Day before sissy went to school...

Valentine's Day after Sophia got home - she is such a great sister. She shared all her candy with her little brother and even let him wear her 100th day of school crown.

Valentine's treats for after dinner from Mom.

Last Friday Papa Dan, Griffin, Grandpa Don, and I attended Sophia's assembly at school. Griffin was elated to have both grandpa's there!

Here is Sophia receiving her 3rd place award for the Box Tops collection contest!

She earned a certificate and a $10 gift card for Toys R Us!

After Sophia's special assembly, Griffin and I headed home. He was excited to see the fire truck parked outside of the fire station in Tenino, so we stopped to take a peek. The fireman on duty even let him get in the fire engine to look around. And then, even more exciting, the fireman got a call and had to get all geared up and drive the firetruck away. We also saw a police officer at the fire station who let Griffin check out his police car. He flashed the lights for us and gave Griff a pretend badge. Pretty great day for the little guy and the big sister!