Happy Birthday to Jude!

This is my little love of my life, I totally call him that, is that weird?!! It is so crazy how amazed I was at how much I could love 2 kids. After you have the first, you think, at least I thought, there is no way I can love a 2nd as much as the 1st. Well, then you have the third. He is so the love of my life, which makes me a bit excited, b/c I was the third child and thought that maybe I was a bit neglected. This guy, not so much. He makes me want to see what our fourth would look like, not care that my house is never picked up, and realize that you do spoil your youngest. He loves and is obsessed with his older siblings and whenever they are not home will walk around Dander, Roe, Go?? My little guy completely content with the two donuts with a candle in it for his cake this morning and his open gym "party" today.

Aqua Glow

so I got a new rug I've had my eye on for awhile...

and decided to brighten up the brownish/purplish kitchen

thanks to Shannon who took me to Liz's and introduced me to the perfect blue I was looking for, (Liz did you know this was the name of your paint color?)

a little more than 24h later, we went to work...

the fam doing the "aqua glow" dance, Xander stated, "I feel like Im starting a new life", he is a complete crack up, what is he talking about.

it so brightended up our kitchen and our lives for the day anyway, we'll see what tomorrow brings, maybe it will inspire me to cook.

A Ball

special thanks to Angie for the beautiful nails,

make up by Kenzie

and hair/extensions by Kenzie's friend Sam

who knew the mermaid cake would be lifesize?

Give me 5!

My not so little girl turned 5 today!! It began with a visit this morning from the Zeka girls and a tasty cookie cake, videographed above. Off to a hospital tour, on to McAllisters, per request, to the fire station with her preschool class, to her mighty mights gymnastics class where she finally did her first backbend kickover, and finished off the night at Old Chicago with the Miller gang, followed up by another cookie cake and serenade. We may need to sleep until her 1:00 party tomorrow!

is it bad that I would rather video tape my almost 2 YEAR OLD, than pick up?

MVP

I can tell that we are going to be friends

Song I tear up to by White Stripes for Monroe's upcoming dance recital, bootcamp will have to begin soon!

accidental candid shot that I turned out to love of Monroe and 3 of her close friends

contagious grin, you think she likes the costume?


who couldn't love this?

Seven superheroes to celebrate Xander's Seventh!

on a mission to find the joker, with batgirl leading the way... solving the joker's riddles the joker is found! per request batman "lego" cake = purple tongues Happy Birthday Xander, I could not ask for a better kid, I am so blessed to have you... even if dad did ask us to leave church today for giggling too much!

Mr.Freeze dance off!

Monkey Business

We took an afternoon trip to the zoo and enjoyed the beautiful weather.

this gorilla showing the kiddos how to eat healthy

Jude was so excited to feed "Bubba".

Vive Mexico!

PARADISE

Thanks to our fabulous family and friends who watched our munchkins, we were able to celebrate our 10yr anniversary a little early with Team Crocker for 5 days at an AMAZING resort in the Riviera Cancun, can't wait to go back!

Rockets

Xander scored his first basket at his last basketball game today, he has been waiting for this, (don't laugh Munsens) Jude must have gotten a little excited too because he proceeded to blow chunks all over him, myself and the floor. Pictured above is the Rockets minus two players, darn. CUTE kids.

I cried, I laughed so hard at this postgame interview.

the INVITATIONS out

thanks to Mrs.Pond, I printed these cute invites out for 20cents at target, thanks JESS!

Some things never change...

like the fact that Xander wants to have a Superhero party and Monroe a mermaid party for their upcoming b-days this month. (Picture above of mermaid and spiderman when they were 1 and 3)