feeling a little green

this is how my kids have been feeling today.  henry and abigail both have the flu and ellie has a barky cough. poor kids.  hopefully mom & dad can keep from catching this bug!  hope everyone's healthy at your house!

please, mister postman

today we wrote letters to disney princesses on cards covered in sparkly pink glitter!

abbey wrote her letter to ariel.  it says: "dear ariel, what is your favorite color?  i wish i was a mermaid like you.  i love the color of your hair.  i will draw a picture of me on the top. love, abbey"

ellie wrote a letter to belle.  she drew a picture of all three of the kids and a picture of belle, too.  you can see she was very proud of herself!

we can't wait until they write back!

happy independence day!

happy 4th of july...yesterday!
we got home so late last night (after 12) that there was just no way i was going to blog.

how was everyone's 4th?  good?  ours was a-mazing!  the most fun we've had on the 4th, ever!

we usually stay at home and dan bbqs a ridiculous amount of food and we light some sparklers.
this year we went to see the fireworks at pearson air field (for those of you not from the pnw, it's a pretty big fireworks show.) where dan bbq'd a ridiculous amount of food and we watched some other people light some really big "sparklers".  AND sarah and thomas got to come with us!  it was pretty epic.

we only had one ticket to the air field, which meant we could only get one car in.  and ours was really full of babies and food, so there was no room for sarah and thomas to come with us, even though we really wanted them to come.  solution?

shhh. don't tell.

hide them in the trunk, of course!  we were kind of worried that they were going to suffocate back there, but they made it out only slightly traumatized...(you can't see him, but thomas is squished in there, too.)

once we got the car parked in the hanger there was plenty of room ;D  we even had our own private patch of grass for a bbq picnic!

look at all those bags of food behind dan! that wasn't even all we brought! 

henry fell asleep before we got there and slept until we were finished eating!

danny grilled hot dogs and hamburgers for dinner.  we had chips, dip, 2 kinds of potato salad, soda, and, of course...

these were the girls first smores! (that they made themselves)

she couldn't eat that huge thing, but she loved the little bit she did eat.

henry wasn't so sure about all the loud noise from the fireworks when he first woke up.

after we couldn't eat anymore, we packed up our goodies, changed the girls into their jammies (to keep them warm), spread out a bunch of blankets and queued up 1776 on the laptop.  (we watch 1776 every 4th of july.  this is a truly awesome musical. if you haven't seen it, go watch it. now.) 

 we didn't get very far into the movie before the fireworks started.  it was a great show.  the kids absolutely loved it.  abbey was especially excited every time something exploded.  ellie really wanted to watch, but she was so tired and full of junk food that she fell asleep about half way through.  i thought henry was going to scream and cry the whole way through, but he oo'd and aah'd and got almost as excited as abbey.  it was great!  

as soon as the show was over we tried to get in the car and go as quick as we could, but it still took us over 40 minutes just to get out of the parking lot!  luckily, we put sarah and thomas in the backseat under the girls' feet, so we didn't have to worry about them running out of air on the way home!

j-e-l-l-o

sometimes i let my kids have chocolate pudding.