Our pool

So my best friend Betsy gave us a small pool that they couldn't use, and Jackson absolutely loves it! He spends hours and hours in there, and he never wants to get out, until he's blue and shivering!
In case you don't believe me, let me show you..























He just loves his new pool, and so does mommy--cuz that means I get go sit in the shade and read my book:)

Danny's birthday

Danny's birthday was on June 8th, but because his birthday was on a Wednesday, we decided to have his party on Saturday the 11th.
The party was angry birds themed, and it came out awesome!! There was lots of things I made for this party, like this cool banner made out of paper iPhones:


And this sweet paper mâché hat box, that I turned into the coolest gift box ever!!!


And here's what the inside looks like:)


Next I made Danny's cake and frosting all by myself. From scratch! And here's proof...


Looks tasty don't it?! Then later that afternoon me and Jax were wrapping daddy's presents and we had to stop and be silly;)








Lol! I love my little guy! He's so silly and he cracks me up every day!! Next we baked the cake! Jax had to help of course. Help slick the batter I mean...











Yumm!! He wanted to have more, but i had to stop him because he's allergic to eggs, and about 1 minute after this picture was taken he broke out in red itchy hives all over his face and neck. Luckily I have hydrocortisone on hands at all times, so I slathered him up and a few minutes later he was back to normal.
I tried my hand at marshmallow fondant for this cake. I wanted to do fondant, but the real stuff is expensive and tastes nasty, so I opted for the marshmallow version, which tastes much better. Thanks to my best friend Betsy for showing me the ropes on how to get the fondant just right. This is just after putting the fondant on and applying the eyes/nose/ears:


Then I added a happy birthday sign and a few candles and let Danny go to town:)








The kids played in the sprinkler and had lots of fun!


And the moral of this story is: if there is a piece of cake left that you put in the refrigerator, be prepared for it to be angry:


Lol! Makes me laugh so much just looking at it:)

Yumm!!

Eating watermelon

Haircuts and getting caught

Jax used to look like this..






See how long it was?! It was crazy!
This morning I cut it all off...so now he looks like this:


Posing for me in one shoe, a diaper and a smile:)


And surprised me by opening the door:


Then later on this afternoon I caught him red handed with chips right after we'd had lunch..






That little stinker!


I love his surprised face!!

The zoo!

We went to the zoo over memorial day weekend!
We saw a peacock walk right past us....


We also went and saw a bird show..The birds flew right over our heads, that was really cool!
We saw a cockatiel..


A really big owl...


Some eagles...





And Jax even got to give a bird a dollar:)


How cool is that?!
We also got to ride the carousel, and see tons of other animals that I forgot to get puctures of. We were so worn out from all the festivities that Jax fell asleep for a bit on the way home.


That was our day on Saturday in a nutshell!

Playing in the water

We set up the sprinkler...











He had a blast of you couldn't tell!!!!