Carly's 4th Birthday

My sweet baby girl turned the big 4 about three weeks ago. Here are some pics. (Better late than never right?)
The celebrations started with a party at Build-A-Bear on Friday. It was so cute!

Princess cupcakes at the mall food court. The kids loved it and I loved not having to set-up and clean-up at my place!

Carly asked for a Cinderella cake this year. Many of you know I have a tradition of making birthday cakes for my kids. It can get a little stressful but I actually had a lot of fun making this one and it wasn't as hard as Ariel was last year.

Princess Carly getting ready to blow out her candles on Sunday, her "real birthday". :)

Aunt Aarean riding in on a Princess bike was the highlight of the day.

Isn't she precious on her princess bike with her princess helmet in her princess dress. Every day is princess day at our house.

I just love her smile in this picture. My mom gave Carly this outfit and it's still under debate if it is a costume or real clothes. :)

Carly loves to sing and dance so we got her a Hannah Montana microphone that plays, wait for it, "It's the best of both worlds...!" Miraculously, it hasn't driven me crazy! :)

I still cannot believe that Carly is really 4. She is such a sweet little princess who is so smart. She constantly baffles me with her questions and her insight. I love her to pieces!

Lost

Sunday night was the series finale of Lost. Brandon and I were looking forward to having all of our "questions" answered this season. After watching every episode and staying up until 11:30pm to watch a two and half hour finale, I'm still lost.

For your amusement!

Carly never ceases to find ways to amuse us. Lately, she has become a clothing expert. Notice the lovely outfit she put on below! She thinks of clothes more as an accessory than as a necessity. I've had to explain to her many times that what you put on the morning is what you wear all day. Otherwise, she would change her clothes ten times a day!

After getting her Ariel crown for easter, her outfit was complete!

Carly is allowed to wear dress up clothes. On this day, Sleeping Beauty came to lunch wearing her easter bonnet! You cannot refer to her as Carly when she is in character!

And I wanted to add a couple funny stories.
Carly really likes listening to the wicked soundtrack. Her favorite song is #3. (I'm not sure of the name) The other day she informed me that we were going to OZ and I needed to pack my bags for three days. She then went to her room and packed her suitcase. She packed clothes, underwear, socks, shoes, pjs, and sweaters. She was all ready! I was really impressed. She was quite heartbroken when she found out that OZ was a pretend place. She kept telling me that we could just follow the yellow brick road!

Carly has recently started watching the Little Einsteins a lot. On Monday, we went to the grocery store and we got one the carts that has a car on the front. For the entire time we were there she sat in the car pretending it was the rocket ship on little einsteins. "Pat, pat, pat, pat, pat! Pat faster! Pat, pat, pat, pat, pat! Now put your hands in the air! Blast off!" I hope the other people at the grocery store were highly entertained! It was great for me because I was able to shop without hearing "I want that, I want this!"
Never a boring day at our house! I love my little girl!

Easter!

We had a lovely, peaceful Easter this year! The Easter bunny came. We went to my parent's house for an easter egg hunt and dinner. And didn't even feel the 7.2 earthquake that rocked southern California and northern Mexico!

Tyler sure enjoyed looking through his easter basket!

Carly loved the Ariel crown that the easter bunny brought her. (And yes, those are her reindeer christmas pj's!)

Tyler didn't get to enjoy the easter egg hunt. He fell asleep on the floor!

Princess Carly loved the easter egg hunt. She commented several times to our amusement, "The easter bunny sure is tricky!"

My sweet boy!

Tyler is now 19 months and he is just the sweetest little guy ever. He just learned how to do a one arm army crawl. It's hilarious! It's really hard to get him to do anything on command so I'm still trying to get it on video. (He also doesn't like to look at the camera let alone smile!) He loves to give kisses and hugs. And he thinks Carly is fascinating! I'm looking forward to the day when they will play together. I have a feeling he's going to be playing a lot of what she wants to do. :)

To anyone who still checks my blog...

I am now an entrepreneur! My best friend and I decided to spend our free time crafting. First stop, decorative wipe cases. We just thought they were so cute we decided to try selling them! You can visit this website below to check them out.
http://www.etsy.com/shop/hankyswanky
Let me know what you think! Coming soon hair clips and possibly headbands and more! The possibilities are endless!

Love you all!!

Why I don't blog more often...

PICTURES!!!
Everyone always wants more pictures. Well, first of all, I'm just not the best photographer. I don't take the best pics, I don't always remember to bring my camera and I don't always remember to take pictures even if I do remember my camera. Second, then I have to take the memory card out of my camera and download all of my pictures. Then finally I get to upload them to a new post. It just takes too many steps and time so I usually decide to do something else. Then I saw this amazing new invention on the Today Show.



This little card sends the pictures you take wirelessly to your computer! I'M SO EXCITED!! Now all I have to do is save my pennies and get one. Don't hold your breath though. They are pretty expensive and I currently do not have a lot of pennies to save. Kudos to all of you who are good photographers and good bloggers!