Ready! Get Set! RACE!

We were at it again! Tracen turned 6 on May 5th!  Tracen chose to go "to the place where you can have ice cream with your dinner"  aka Friendly's!  They even sang to him and gave him a balloon.  He was so excited!

 We were in Danville, Pa on Tracen's actual birthday, where I ran my second 1/2 marathon (post to follow soon) So we had his birthday party today and it was a HUGE SUCCESS.   Tracen is really into cars and racing...so we had a RACE PARTY.  The kids did 5 different races 1: Fun Run (Obstacle Course)  2:  Donut Falls (Rolling Hula Hoops)  3:  Dreamville Hops (Pillow case race)  4:  Timed Race on the Karrasch Track (Tracen got a time of 14.9 seconds...the second fasted time!)  5:  Volcano Mountain Race (Hot Wheel race)  Followed by an ice cream bar and cupcakes.  I think Tracen had a great day!  It was a lot of fun!  But I am wiped out after all of these parties!

 

Thanks to all of our friends for making today such a fun party!

Super 4th Birthday

I am so so so far behind....especially since today is MAY 1. I can't even believe it. Where did the time go? Well, I wanted to get Logan's birthday blogged first...Disney World will come soon...there are so many pictures...it will take a while.

Logan Bear turned 4 on April 5th!  All day was dedicated to little Logie.  We played, had a McDonald's picnic in the park, opened presents and went out to dinner.  Logan picked Friendly's.  I didn't take a ton of pictures (what is wrong with me?) so this is the best we've got :)

Chris helped me throw a "super" party for Logan.  We had 18 kids come and play at our house for 3 hours....yes, I just said 18!  It was a bit insane.  We played bingo...had an awesome obstacle course (created entirely by Chris), and a super hero mission to save the party from Dr. Doom.  Again, my picture skillz were lacking...but with 18 kids, can you really blame me :)

Logan and his birthday treat table

You can't be a super hero without a super hero cape and mask....yes sir!  I sewed stinkin' 18 capes and masks.  But it was fun :)  And of course we put them in alphabetical order!  Ha!

Captain America Kabobs

Hulk Smash Jigglers

Iron Man Fire Balls

Happy Birthday Logan!  Thanks to all of our buddies for coming :)

You Gotta Love...

The HOME DEPOT

Since moving here...we have discovered the Saturday workshops that Home Depot offers the first Saturday of every month.  They are pretty awesome.  I always double check what they are building and this past month we built...RACE CARS!  How stinkin' awesome is that!  A free toy and a free hour of fun...I'm all over it...oh and did I mention...it is FREE!

Wacky Vacation Wear Wednesday

I love love love to dress up!  For homecoming my Senior year, my great friend and I even got crowned spirit royalty :)  Pretty fun...so dress up day at Tracen's school?  What?  I told him to go for it...here is what he came up with for Wacky Vacation Wear Wednesday this week!  We took these pictures next to his actual-size self tracing (I don't know what else to call it) but he was sick when they colored them...You can't see very well, but his mini-me has on a jersey and basketball shorts...Air Jordan.  Ha!

Pinning on Pinterest

I vowed not to join Pinterest for a number of reasons
including but definitely not limited to

time waster
my addictive personality
never ending projects
my uncontrollable love for crafting and diy projects
no money to do all said projects with
and the list could continue forever.

But I finally gave in when I wanted to start looking for ideas on how to do our master bedroom.  And I have kept myself under control for the most part and I justify my pinning to the fact that I used to book mark millions of sites to go back to later and recreate their amazing diy projects...seriously...it was an issue...Chris was always yelling at me about the tool bar being cluttered with diy blogs.  Ha!

Now that I have been pinning, I have made a goal to accomplish/work on at least 2 or 3 pins a week or I don't pin more...so for my sister's b-day, I made this using this tutorial with my own style on her techniques.  Don't worry, I will be making many more...especially for my master bedroom when the time is right!