Minnie's Pink Birthday

Miss Minnie Lou turned 3 on Sunday~ that means the terrible twos are long gone, right? :) She insisted for months that her "February Pink Birthday" was coming which Anderson quickly responded with, "There is NO color birthday's Minnie". It was an ongoing conversation. Her pink birthday finally came and she loved it. We kick it old school at the Vandy House and we actually went to Goodwill and bought a VCR. For the price of 1 dvd, we can get like 20 VHS movies that the kids watch over and over...they aren't really into high def tv yet:) So she got Lady and the Tramp, I think the only movie they don't have of the classic Disney collection. The funny thing is, Minnie runs the VCR like nobody's business. Even Andy doesn't know how as good as she does.

Ivy LOVES a camera and never misses a photo opportunity.


So we decorated for Minnie's Pink Birthday with all things pink. The totally 80's fan in our kitchen was adorned with 10 cent beads left over for Christmas. Sometimes the kids get on the table and pull the fan cord without us knowing. They did this earlier and when Tim turned on the light switch, the fan (including the beads) whipped around like a freaking tornado. Beads fell and everything, including Tim's ear, got the wrath of the beads. It was like the fan weed-eated the kitchen. Oh how I wish I had a camera....it was so funny and made me laugh every time I thought about it.

We love living here, and this is one of the reasons why....taking a Sunday walk down at the beach. It is so great and the kids love it. They picked up shell after shell after shell until we couldn't hold anymore.




These were some older Christmas pictures I found that I put up for my parents to see. Minnie got her Minnie Mouse sweatshirt...I hope some day she won't hate me for naming her Minnie. I can't resist getting her Minnie Mouse stuff.
The kids and their Christmas PJ's from Memere (Tim's mom). If it wasn't for her, the kids would never have any new clothes!
Christmas cookies for Santa. My sister in law got us each these personalized plates with the kid's names on the stockings for Santa cookies. I had to write in Minnie and Ivy but it's so cute. I am pretty sure Santa's little helper (ME) ate a million of these cookies. In fact, I think Tim maybe got 1 of the second batch I made.
The loot!
One of their favorites...these sleeping bags attached to air mattresses...they love them and if anyone comes to visit, we now have 2 twins available to sleep in!