Ilona turns 1!

My baby girl is now a 1 year old! After years of boy parties and boy cake themes I finally had a girl party! So the theme was PinK! I made pink tulle puff balls, pink wall flowers and pink cupcakes...oh Ilona was dressed in pink too =)

She's not sure what's going on...but aren't those leggings super sweet!?

Oops she's got it =)

The next day Grandma and Grandpa H stopped by to give Ilona this shopping cart. Both Ilona and Camden had a great time loading it up! I forgot to take pictures of all the cute pink-ness, but there's a wall flower in the background. They turned out so cute!

Well, little Missy, We've loved having you in our family. You have the cutest happy face. Gigantic dimples on both cheeks and your chin, even a cute little dimple by your nose! I absolutely adore your blond tight curls! You win on the most teeth for a one year old in our family. It was fantastic when you teethed all four front teeth at the same time... :(  You love being with the boys. You will squat down by them to check out their toys. Whenever you see a dog - you raise your hand and say "it, it." I don't like the dog jumping on me and will always say "sit!"...I guess I do that a little too much : ) You love, love bananas! No one can eat one around you without you begging for it! You say da da dada all.the.time. Mama is only said out of desperation! But you do add a cute little ay sound at the end ;) We love you so much sweet girl :)

8 is Great

 In November Elek was baptised! I should have come back to this post while everything was fresh in my mind... Lets see some random thoughts from the day:
Elek is so old and tall and thin. I swear he grows an inch a day!
He's looking so much like His handsome Dad :) 
In the last picture my hair is wayyyy to short!
The family was is some seriously cute matchy outfits :)
Elek asked his Aunts old room mate to give the talk on the Holy Ghost. He just loves this sweet gal! 
The font was freezing and Elek practically jumped out after going under-haha :)
We have great friends that came to Elek's baptism!
We met up with eleks grandparents/cousins for dinner and fun.

Boys Costumes

My Boys have been massively under represented SO here are their adorable Mario Brother costumes! Shaun even had a red toad hat, but he managed to stay out of pictures :)

He still loves green! I first had the idea of a Luigi costume when we were at target and Camden said, "there's my green guy!!"

All my boys and their pumpkins :)

Toad, Luigi and Mario.

I found a fantastic tutorial to make the Luigi hat. So easy! Then I figured why not use it to get a toad hat too! Shaun even liked them so much that he asked me to make him a red toad hat! He even wore it to the boys school parties and trick or treating! What a guy :) I thought I had overalls for Keenan and spent a ton of time looking for them... So I made these ones out of felt just before k's school party. If we do this again I will make another pair-they look so cute!

We dropped by to see the kids grandparents and ran into some other cousins too. I'm pretty impressed with this picture. So many eyes looking even though they desperately wanted to be let loose!

This picture cracks me up! The kids were soooo busy! Everyone in constant motion-I think this picture captures all the movement well :)

Tights and other cute picts

I love this picture of Ilona...She is trying to "play" with Camden while he was hiding his toys from her on the couch:) they learn so young! Such an inocent look!

Beautiful blue eyes

During our years of boys -one thing I loved to do was buy fun tights for my nieces and any other little girls. Now I get to buy them for MY little girl. And Yes they are just as adorable as I always new they would be! I got a steal on this little skirt 5 bucks-Tights $1.24 Whoohoo!

She loves to stande at the chairs..

Every time She saw the camera she would stop and bable at me :)  

Fall is fantastic for fun socks and tights. I think this is the begining of a beautiful friendship!

where did the time go...

I really am going to do better at keeping up this blog...

My Parents came out when the baby was born. My Dad made me some awesome pieces! Above is the toy chest. Totally kid friendly. There are diapers and wipes hidden away. Baby toys, and misc toys in the other baskets. Behind the curtain is a huge bright yellow bucket of legos, blocks and other big things that are now hidden away! And now I have a cute little display spot!

Camden had a birthday too! This year I tried very hard to talk camden out of another green party. Luckily he loves Angry Birds! So I made a cake with blocks on top and "Birds" toppling over those pigs :) Camden received several stuffed birds and we played with boxes that I wrapped up in brown paper. Everyone went crazy over this game and still when the kids have friends over they play it!

Ilona grew too, too fast! She loves Camdens blanket and sneaks up to get it then rolls herself all around in it - just snuggling up! (about 5 month)

She looks a little cross eyed here, but I was trying to get a picture of her sitting up all by herself. She has been scooting and flinging herself forward for awhile, but now she is without wobbling and sitting up! It doesn't last long though-there is always something she has to get off to...

My Cuties

The baby had a free photo shoot; however, she decided to teeth instead. So, I dressed everyone back up that evening and headed outside and got this picture. I really love it! I love that Camden is looking off and grinning-it's so him :) Did you notice Eleks studious little glasses? I love that cute pop of color too!

May -Still behind, but I'm catching up...

Camden and I went to a playgroup where they had brand new little chicks....from the mail. You can get anything online!

He LoVeS little chicks!

He tried to feed baby cows...they didn't come through the mail-I had to ask :)

K Myster turned SIX! I can not believe it! My SIL found these cool cakes in a jar on fb. They were so fun! The kids loved them. Keenan had a few friends over for a bug themed party.  We threw a Lady bug some spots, tossed around a hot potato-I mean beetle...and had balloon games.

Our family celebration

the family

ilona had so much fun when my sister and her boys came for a visit

Who said he won't smile for the camera?

I had a birthday...

Ilona loves smiling at Grandma, but isn't sure about smiling for me...

We had a nice visit to the Saint Louis Zoo.

These hippos were crazy big and were swimming in circles.

Check out that head comparison

And at the end of the day - she's all tuckered out!