Where has the time gone?

It is so hard to believe I haven't posted anything in eleven days! Our iMac was having a screen issue and I took it in to be fixed. That, along with our week of holidays - made it too crazy around here to get anything extra done!  So now I am catching up -- and this is a long post!  But, I promise to try to give you the highlights.  Okay?

Let's see... there was Mother's Day:

Can you tell they were SO excited?  Hmmmph!  We had a very nice day though, and it was great to spend time together as a family!

Then we had Justin's birthday on Tuesday:

I was mean and put 32 candles on the cake!  But he had a lot of help blowing them out.  And we didn't even set of the smoke alarm!  *snerk*

Thursday was Lauren's 5th birthday:

She was pretty excited.  =)  Mostly about not having to take naps anymore.  Ha!

And Daddy surprised her with a pretty awesome present, too!

Then Saturday was her Fairy birthday party!  This theme was chosen because about six weeks ago we were walking by the bakery in Super Target and she saw this cake.  Her eyes were huge and she asked me if she would be able to have a cake just like that for her birthday.  So, fairies it was!  And it was a beautiful cake - gifted to her by Grandpa Randy and Grandma Linda.

We started with some pizza and fruit - birthday girl's choosing of course!

The kids decorated canvas bags with foam stickers and adhesive jewels:

Then we went outside to do the pull string pinata - Lauren's only requested game!

Note to self - if you put chocolate inside a pinata, hang it in the Arizona sun only moments before the activity is to begin.

Those poor melty Hugs.  It was a crime against chocolate, really.  

Then we had to cut into that beautiful cake!

Missing iMac aside, it was a great week!  =)

Hope you all had a nice one too!  I promise not to be another week or more before my next post!!!