~Tea Party for a Princess~

*sigh* My baby is 4...

And since she IS a Princess, we had to have a Princess Party for her.

There is a fantastic place about 3 cities over (sounds farther than it is), that is home to SuperFranks! They have an outstanding Princess Tea Party Room...
They do the little girls hair, complete with glitter AND they get to dress up as a Princess - as many times as they like....

Katelyne and I make cupcakes with purple sprinkles, we had chocolate covered grahm crackers as a favor and the kids each took a bucket full of candy... you can see the buckets behind the candy jars here:

We stamped and water color painted cupcakes on a few sticks:

I am not that talented... we bought these:

Cinderella showed up!!!!!!

Your Heiress let peasants such as Mom and Dad get close enough to take a picture:

The kiddies dined on pizza and juice:

And Missy was wiped out!

It was so much fun, but the best part was on the way home when she told us, "it was the best day of her life..."

~How Does Your Garden Produce?~

When Katelyne and I decided to plant this garden, I imagined a few tomatoes, maybe one ear of corn, and one or two zucchini....

To date the corn is about 4 1/2 feet tall, the tomatoes number about 20 and I just cut zucchini #2-4... and they were rather sizable (can you see the ruler at the top ???):

"Holy Shit!" Those were my words exactly... I am sure the neighbors heard. And between you and I, the kids did too.

Here are some pictures of the garden in it's entirety. Remember when I mentioned before that Katelyne was set on planting everything so close? Well, let this be a lesson to my Jolly Green Girl: THAT was a bad idea.

I am sure that in a few weeks we will have successfully crossed zucchini and corn... and you will be tasting the sweetness of Zorn soon.

Don't laugh.

~We Are Lake People, We Are Beach People~

I guess that makes us "Bakes"? Or "Leaches"? Well, whatever we are, we are pretty much happy no matter which direction we head... this past weekend we headed south-west, to Santa Cruz.

It was a little foggy, but beautiful as always.
It was the first time Tyler would get close enough to the water to get a little sand stuck between his tootsies... He would only go as far as Dad.

It is funny how you realize how small your kiddies are when they stand in front of the ocean... I love this picture of my Lil' man.

Daddy dug in the sand and built castles and bridges with Katelyne - who was camera shy for the most part...

...Until I caught her not paying attention and snapped this gem of a face!

She looks so pissed! And she would not even look my direction if i had the camera for the rest of the day - such a stinker.

~Dresses Are For...~

...anyone who will sit still long enough, if you ask Katelyne.

I still have no idea how she managed to get him to put the dress over his head, let alone the fact that she got him to come down the hallway wearing the dress!

She helped him out on the Fairy Shoes...
And then, he realized the dress was pink...

Yes, this is in the "Oh, let me show you Tyler's baby pictures..." arsenal.