Happy 2nd birthday, Zaphira!

A LONG overdue update...Zaphira Garnet is 2 years old! We had a family fun day. She awoke to a bunch of balloons in her favorite color, and had a blast with them. We went to her favorite playground, and had yummy ice cream cake.

 She's telling me, "No cheese!" I guess she was sick of having her picture taken.

PB smile

It snowed!

Zaphira got sick Thursday night, and the rest of the family fell on Sat. We are all just starting to feel better (except poor Zaphira, who just can't kick it)

It snowed tonight, so the kids went out for a couple of minutes to check it out. Zaphira was duly impressed, and set about tasting the snowball Drew made for her. The pictures are crappy, because it was already dark and we only have a bug-off light outside that is really yellow.





Also, remind me not to give Zanthias markers in the car while unattended. Bad Mama.




He was very proud of himself.

Happy halloween from Harry and Horsie

Sorry for 2 posts in 1 day-I forgot to post the other yesterday. The costumes were inspired by Zanthias' favorite story, Harry and Horsie.
Harry's stuffed animal, Horsie, is stolen away by a bubble, and Harry has to ride his rocket to save him. Zaphira's costume isn't really accurate, but I had to work with what materials I had =)


Drew turned the kids' wagon into a rocket. How cool is this? Drew is awesome!




Zaphira kept trying to get candy from this lady, who was just a mom of a trick or treater.

getting ready for Halloween

We went to a Halloween party my moms' group planned today. It was lots of fun, even if Zanthias wouldn't wear his costume! He is super excited to trick or treat tomorrow.

Fall day

Here are some pics of Zaphira, since I haven't posted any of her for a while. Her hair is getting really long!

Happy birthday, Zaphira!

We had a birthday party for Zaphira here for all our friends. It was a fiesta theme, and we made most of the decorations (and her dress!) It was so much fun. Happy first birthday to my sweet little girl.

Portraits!

We had a groupon for Portrait People at the mall (If you haven't signed up for groupon yet, use this link to sign up and when you pay for your first deal, we get $10! We've gotten some amazing deals from it-this cost $18 and was a $144 value!) and decided to take the kids tonight when buying Zaphira her first pair of real shoes. Here are some of the highlights of the session. I'll put all the pics on the cd when I send it out.