Alyssa's 7th Birthday!

On Friday, Jan. 15th Alyssa turned 7!  She was sooo excited for her birthday and had a really hard time falling asleep the night before.  But when Mark woke her up, even a little earlier than normal, she had NO problem waking up (she usually does).  She popped right out of bed and ran downstairs, ready to open her presents!!! 

From us us she got a PINK scooter, a wheelchair for her American girl dolls, and a little "feel better" kit that contained a leg cast, arm cast, bandaids, ace bandage, crutches, and an ice-pack for all the bumps and bruises her American girl dolls get.  :-) 

We have a good laugh about her American Girl doll "Jillia" that she got last year for Christmas.  We tease that it really does look like she's been in a terrible accident...check out the hair! 

After she opened her presents, she had her favorite breakfast: bacon and eggs.  Then it was time for school.  Sad she has to go to school on her birthday but I was always really jealous of people who got to go to school on their birthday because they got to be so special that day!  (I had a summer birthday).  We brought cupcakes to school and then I brought her Wendy's for lunch and ate in the cafeteria with her.  I felt bad, all the kids were drooling over her chicken nuggets and french fries.  After school, we went and picked up her balloons and ice-cream cake for the family party! 

Grandma & Grandpa Campbell, Grandma & Grandpa Telford, Uncle Travis, Aunt Tarah, Bryson, Lucas, Uncle Jason and Kami came to our house for a little birthday celebration where we ate cake and opened presents and played a little.  There were too many pics to post them all, but she got money from Grandma and Grandpa Telford & Grammy, which she had spent a few hours later.  She ordered some more stuff from American Girl.  Grandma Michelle made her lots of adorable little outfits for her American girl dolls, and even made her matching jammies.  Today Alyssa told me, "Mom, I like the clothes that Grandma Michelle makes for my dolls MORE than the ones American Girl makes."  She really does an amazing job!

Then the next day Alyssa had a party with her friends.  She chose to go to Color Me Mine...a place where you get to pick something out to paint, and then they put it in the kiln and make it all shiny and nice.  We missed her friend Eliza, but the girls and I had a great time!

Ciara, Alyssa and Sydney

Ok so blogger frustrates me to no end, that is why I never post anymore.  And I could not get this picture to go anywhere but at the end, so it is out of order.  But the night of her birthday, before the family party we went to Chili's for dinner.  Well we tried to go to Chevy's which was her pick, but there was a major gas leak there so they weren't letting anybody in, so we had to go to Chili's which Alyssa was NOT happy about.  But anyways, when they came to sing her happy birthday, she crawled under the table and hid.  Oh Alyssa.  Then, as soon as they set this yummy looking thing down, she licked it!  So nobody else could eat it...little stinker.  :-)

Oh Alyssa we love you!!!  Now...7 things about Alyssa:

1)  She is a great drawer!  She loves to write stories and I'm always impressed at the drawings that go along with them.

2)  She is doing excellent in school and loves her teacher Mrs. Stroud! 

3)  She recently started taking piano lessons and is liking that a lot. 

4)  She is a night owl!  She stays up late reading books or playing in her room.

5)  She is generally pretty responsible.  She bathes herself completely on her own, from start to finish (so nice!)  She doesn't complain about picking up her messes and cleaning her room, which we really really appreciate. :-)

6)  She is a HUGE help with Kylie.  She can even give her baths and take her potty.  Her and Kylie have really started playing together these last few months and it's so cute. 

7)  Her favorite color is pink, favorite food is rice, favorite t.v. show right now is Phineas & Ferb, favorite ice-cream is cookies & cream.

Happy Birthday Alyssa, we love you!

Family Picture

Santa's Lap

Classic.

Snow??!!! In Sacramento!!!

This is very exciting!!!  It does not snow in Sacramento very often.  I can only remember one other time it snowed here (and I've lived here my whole life) and it did not even stick to the ground.  It's just a light dusting, but we'll take it!  So fun!

Disneyworld

Pumpkin Patch

For Family Home Evening tonight we went to the Pumpkin Patch with Travis, Tarah, Bryson and Lucas! Everyone had a lot of fun. It was such a perfect Fall evening...cool but not cold.

The kids had fun climbing this thing...

Alyssa made it!

Love these boys!!

Ky made it too!

Fun cousins!!

Kylie showing her pumpkin to Trevor

Such a big girl carrying her pumpkin around. :-)

Kylie loved petting the animals!! p.s. if you're wondering about the 4th of July bow...we were in a hurry heading out the door and that was the only bow I could grab quickly. :-) Yeah, wrong holiday, totally doesn't match...that's what happens sometimes these days! It just needed to serve a purpose, to keep her hair out of her eyes. :-)

Trevor turns 5!!!

Trevor had his 1st "friend" birthday party last weekend. He had so much fun!! First we played games. Here's a picture of them trying to stomp out eachother's balloons.

Then they did an egg relay race where they split up in to 2 teams, and they each had to walk to the other end of the yard carrying an egg on a spoon.
They also played the classic Pin the Tale on the Donkey, but I didn't get a picture of it.

Then we had cake and ice-cream. He had a Batman themed party so we got him a batman cake. Well, in an attempt to NOT let his sister see his cake, he smashed part of it trying to cover it up with the lid of the box it came in. Ohhh kids.

So apparently, Trevor's friends have horrible voices! :-)

The crew!

So, the next day was his actual birthday, and he got a Leapster! Also a few games and a case.

Kylie did not understand why SHE didn't have any presents to open, and Trevor was SO sweet and told her she could open one...until he was done opening his, and wanted it back to open. He is such an indian giver. :-)

He also got this awesome Lego set from his Grandma and Grandpa. So far we put together the motorcycle and helicopter. We still need to put together the big truck...it's a little tricky cause Kylie can not be around...we tried that and she likes to come take big handfuls and throw them!

This was his family b-day party BR cake (ice-cream & cake! ice-cream & cake!)

The day after his b-day he got to go spend some b-day money he got from his other grandparents and scored a dragon imaginext castle, skateboard, a walrus webkin, and a camera!

I can't believe Trevor is 5!!! He is getting so big, everytime I pick him up I wonder how much longer I will be able to do that. He is really heavy! He outweighs his big sister. :-) Trevor is crazy, loud and can be a handful, but he is SO fun to have in our family. He has such a sweet heart and even though he can be rough with his sisters, there are moments where you can tell how much he loves them. He'll say sweet things to Alyssa like, "Alyssa, you look really pretty." and "Alyssa I love you, you're the best sister in the whole world!" The second Trevor opened his Leapster, Alyssa wanted one. Trevor took turns with Alyssa his whole b-day, letting her play with his brand new toy. He's also really sweet with Kylie and whenever he comes home from school Kylie says, "TREVOR!!!" and is really excited to see him. He still really enjoys playing sports and got to play soccer this season. He is so fun to watch and scored 7 goals one game! :-) He's full of questions and makes us LAUGH all the time.

Love you buddy!