Bwak bwak bwak

Just a little teaser for what will be coming in December via the mail to all of our closest friends and family.

You can't wait huh???  If you live in our area and you have not had YLK photography do your pictures yet.....you do not realize what you are missing!!!!

Yony I love you like a fat kid loves CAKE!!!!

Painted, partied and played

Birthday party went GREAT!!!  Although Hayden is already in planning mode of her "hello kitty Party" that will take place next September.  See she really wanted a Hello Kitty party and well I planned an Art Party.  What's a girl to do when you already have the cute invites and have a perfect place for the party.....and a child who loves ART???  You plan a super cute and easy painting party at your local pottery painting place.  So I have been sworn by a pinkie swear that it will be Hello Kitty next year. 

Party was perfect, the quietest you have seen 9 girls ranging in age from 2-7 for an hour and a half!!!  Everyone concentrated and painted away.  I think they had fun and I can't wait to pick up the finished product next week and deliver the masterpieces to each artist!!! 

Hayden said she had a blast and loved her party....so I would say that is a success!!!

Official PRE-SCHOOLER

Well she turned 4 and now has become an official pre-schooler.  PLEASE stop the hands of time!!  Where we live H misses the cut off for school by a week.  So she will not start kinder until she is 6, so while she has been attending her school and had a curriculum all along(not a mothers day out prgm) she is officially a PRE-SCHOOLER now and in the 3's

She was ready, excited, happy and while I know a smidge nervous that things would be a little different....she walked right in and did GREAT.  Sounds like she had a great day and said she was ready to go back when I picked her up.  She said she made a lot of new friends....she just doesn't remember their names:) 

I think she will have a fantastic year and I think she has a great team of teachers and can't wait to see what they have to teach my sweet baby girl!!!

It was not my tires you heard peeling out of school today....LOL  Yes mommy was ready to be able to get some stuff done, and while I miss her when we are apart....it is good for both of us to have H in school:) Mommy went to the boohoo YAHOO breakfast with 5 other mommies and that was super fun and then I went into full gear mode of running as many errands as I could in a few hours!!  I know you know the feeling.  I already have my list full and ready to roll for our next school day. 

happy to be a pre-schooler

seriously look at that smile

mommy and her best girl

Hi my name is sassy and I am in pre-school

Hayden and Miss Vicki

Overnight she turned 4!!

Well not sure how it happened, but somehow we woke up yesterday to a 4year old and the 3 year old had moved on.  It just has my head spinning that she is 4!!!  HOW, HOW did it happen???  The time is just flying by and as much as I want to stop the hands of time, I have decided I just need to embrace and love and soak it all up as it will continue to fly and she will be grown up before I know it. 

Miss ThANG had a wonderful day that started the moment she woke and looked at me and said "I think it is my birthday mommy"  We ventured downstairs to find that Scout our elf on the shelf had decorated our kitchen in pink streamers and A LOT of balloons.  Scout was found riding the rooster on our kitchen chandelier.  Hayden was THRILLED to see scout and he actually stayed a second night too....that would not be because mommy was SO tired that maybe I forgot to go and get him and hide him away again.  LOL

We made one VERY large pancake for the bday girl and she opened some gifts that she had been VERY patient about looking at each day and waiting for her day to come.  Lot's of lovely and fun stuff arrived including a beautiful dress that her guncles brought her from Paris.  As the day progressed things have arrived all the way from Hawaii to New York.  The kid's cup RUNNETH over!!!  We still have her birthday party that is coming up next weekend. 

She had lunch with her Aunties(my college roommates) they are taking her to see Pinkalicious the musical at the end of the month!!!(oh no she is NOT at all excited about that day:) LOL Amongst the gifts, sprinkles cupcakes and lunch made the mid-day portion AWESOME.  Then she had her Oma and Opa visit with gifts in hand....A LOT of stuff for her American Girl dolls!!!  The list is TOO long to list of the stuff that has arrived since is too long to list!!  But let me just say the LOVE that arrived whether it was gifts, calls, skype, FB msg, emails, calls, texts......Hayden felt the love.  She said it was the "BEST DAY of her WHOLE life"  She was running on HIGH octane fuel and by bedtime she was overstimulated and exhausted. 

We are hosting an Art Party next weekend.  So that should be fun and we are looking forward to Hayden's friends celebrating with her.  So we will post all of those pictures next weekend.  Nothing like the OVERLOAD of PINKNESS like last year.  It will be small and not anything as overwhelming as last year.  It still should be fun.  We have to get back to school next week though before we can celebrate anymore and we have met the teacher and are ready to head back.  So keep an eye out for school and bday pics. 

Thank you everyone for helping make Hayden's 4th bday the very BEST!!!!

The Aunties

more doll stuff!!!  HEAVEN!!!

For me really????  YAHOO

Oma and Opa with Hayden

Gotta Wrap up China trip!!!

I swear I will wrap up this trip this week.  31 days, 3 people taking pictures and 3 cameras later.....I have almost 2000 pics to sort thru.  We have a big birthday week this coming week, meet the teacher and back to school night, Taylor coming home and the start of school the following week.....A LOT going on!!!

a little yoga on the city wall

they open the city wall each day with this ceremony of guards and the emperor

All I could think about was how hot they must be....we were SWEATING like crazy!!!

 

Hayden loved watching these girls play their instruments.

hello my name is Miss Sassy Pants!!

stork yoga pose....

prettiest toll gate I have ever seen.

city wall

I told you we were HOT!!!  Missy decided taking her shirt off like the boys was a good idea.  Now if she only had someone to fan her!!!  LOL