valentines day

tess was feeling it in her heart headband a couple weeks ago. pink, pink and more pink!

i saw a picture of a manicure that had these cynical conversation hearts on the girl's nails and tried to have my local nail lady recreate it. yeah..... that didnt go over so well. lets just say (its shellac so i cant just take it off) i have been hiding my nails for the past week and a half. i had to get some sort of revenge on the situation so i made cynical conversation heart sugar cookies. 

minute-to-win-it valentines candy game for sully's class party. 

sully's valentines. 

valentines day morning. she loved her nerd rope and princess shoes!

craig took me out to dinner and dessert downtown (date night on a weeknight!) that night. the space needle was pink! very fun. 

my valentine. 

snow & my birthday

a couple days before my birthday we had a surprise snowstorm. it was the most snow i have ever seen in seattle and it was so fun/pretty.

my snow bunnies. 

tess was loving life. 

i even taught her how to eat the snow. she wouldnt stop.

couples night down at the fun center for laser tag, go-karting & bowling. 

my dad was out of town but he had arranged it so we had the vip bowling section with birthday balloons and my very own sign! it was so sweet. 

my parents joined us for dinner at daniels to celebrate my birthday. 

afterwards, i met up with my friends for a movie and dessert. it was the perfect day. 

science party for tagg's ninth birthday

tagg is constantly begging me to look on pinterest for kids' science projects ideas so i decided to kill two birds with one stone and do a science theme birthday party.  

it was a blast gathering up science gear and reinventing it to work for a birthday party. 

i especially couldnt get enough of the jello petri dishes. ha.

i put craig in charge of making the atom balloon situation and after a few quiet tantrums he figured one out. :)

personalized lab coats/badges and our new skeleton friend. 

as soon as the boys arrived, i put them straight to work. first up, lava lamps. so fun and easy. 

next, they made homemade flubber. 

freaking cute scientists. 

our last "experiment" was the magic shell ice cream sundaes. my kind of experiment.

birthday boy with his beaker cake.

as always, we had the polaroid camera out to take pictures for the boys to bring home in the frames they decorated. 

science favors. 

i have so much fun putting these parties together. its the best seeing the smile on my kids' faces when it all goes down. 

on tagg's actual birthday night he requested dinner at red robin. its the only place around here where they sing "happy birthday". :) i love how he wanted to be sung to sooooo badly but then acted like he was over it during the actual serenade. 

birthday sundae with mom and ga. 

tess' face. happy birthday, tagg! a wonderful week, celebrating our wonderful boy.