Valentine's Day

Here is a picture of Jared with a big Hershey's kiss I got for him. Isn't he so cute! He gave me flowers and candy. He's the best example to me. He has such willpower for dieting and exercise. Wish I could be more like him.

My parents babysat for us last night so we could go out to Olive Garden and to a Stake Valentine Dance. The wait for Olive Garden was 1 1/2 hours, pretty long! The Stake put together a pretty nice time. They had a chocolate fountain with fruit and also other desserts. They had a picture taking area also where we took this picture:

Ethan's 6 year pictures

School Valentine Parties

I was able to volunteer at both Madeline and Ethan's school parties. Now they are off track for a month. Hopefully I can find things for them to do.


Here's a picture of Ethan with his school valentine envelope.


Here's a picture of Madeline with her school Valentine envelope


Here's Ethan with the craft he made.

Ethan's 6th birthday party

Today is Ethan's 6th birthday and we are going to celebrate with my family tonight. Ethan had a great day at church. He got the CTR ring that he has been waiting for at church and got sung Happy Birthday to and got candy from the bishop.

Yesterday, he had a friend birthday party. There were 12 kids that came to it and it was crazy, but fun. Ethan chose the theme of Mario. On the previous post, I put up pictures of the games and decorations. I forgot to take a picture of the whole group of kids, but here are the pictures that we have from it, thanks Jared for taking these. I was busy the whole time in charge of the games and everything.

Ethan having fun


Taking a small break on the Wii. Look at the Mario hats I made from www.coolpartyblog.com

Playing Mario dance off

Opening presents

Thanks to all who came. Ethan had a great birthday!

Getting ready for Ethan's birthday party

Ethan wanted a Mario party for his 6th birthday. Seeing that there isn't a whole lot at the stores for this theme, I had to research it out on the internet and there are excellent ideas out there. Here is a picture of Ethan in front of the cupcakes and mario and luigi figures.

Here are some games we played:
Mario Matching

Hide and Boo Seek - where you tried to find the boos and shoot them with a nerf gun.

Pin the moustache on Mario

Yoshi's egg toss

And we played two other games. Mario dance off kind of like musical chairs with pictures on the ground that they had to land on when the music stopped. I had music from Super Mario Galaxy and the New Super Mario for Wii, since those are the games my son loves to play. We also had a treasure hunt to find princess peach. I had pictures of where the next clues were and they followed them until the last clue told where I had placed a picture of Princess Peach. I gave out gold coins when they won a game and if they got 5 gold coins, they got a star necklace.

Here is a picture of the table where they could color pictures of Mario and Luigi.

Here are the cupcakes we got from Sam's Club. I made some toppers of Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, mushrooms, stars, and gold coins.

Here are the decorations. I got a bunch of blue balloons since that is Ethan's favorite color and some blue streamer paper.

Here's a banner that I made from an idea from one of my friend's blogs

Here are the Mario and Luigi pops that I made and placed in a question block favor box for each of the kids. I found how to do the pops from www.coolpartyblog.com

Here is the Mario pinata that I made from the site: www.coolpartyblog.com I changed it a little to make it easier.