Asa's 6th Bday

This wonderful boy turned 6 this year!  He has become such a great kid - we're so thankful for him and so thrilled to be his parents!  He watches out for his sisters, is conscientious, loves school, loves studying birds, playing with friends - especially star wars and legos, and started rugby!  We did a Star Wars party for him which started with a family party with Amara before she left, included Chewie Donuts for his class, more Star Wars fun with friends, and hamburgers with family!!

Cousin Party!

Tatooine Cake

Safeway did a killer job on these donuts!

Our Star Wars backdrop!

Bubble stick lightsabers!

R2D2 reassembly

Hoth Cake

Such a fun group of boys!!

a whole bunch of Jedi!

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Greeting Christmas Morning

 

Christmas Buddies!

 

Santa Lucia Day

Being a quarter Swedish myself and the kids somewhere around 3/16 (Mike has some Swedish in him too) we like to celebrate Santa Lucia day.
But it manages to sneak up on us every year.  I would love to get the girls crowns and dresses but maybe next year....  (we'll see, I said that last year too!)  Regardless, we at least had the buns (and yes- I managed to kill the yeast by reading Celsius instead of Farenheit- so they were more like bagels, but the kids didn't seem to mind!! A few candles and breakfast is magical!)

Happy Santa Lucia Day!

 

Seattle Thanksgiving

Sofie happily hung out with lots of people.

Cousin Em came up!!

 

Working on the oreo turkey kid craft - delish.

Maggie's mohitos - also delish.

The beautiful smoked bird - amazingly moist -way to go Owens!

Flowers - with one of my favorite roses; free spirit.

Helen apparently didn't get the memo that it was a nice picture.

Mike and Molly.

opening up the wine.

My folks drove over with us!

Sweet little Sof.

A bunch of cousins on ipads. 

Thanksgiving Crafts

Asa had a Thanksgiving party at school which we made turkey cookies for.  Since we had so many extra, we decided to do a craft morning for some of Ida's friends too.
Hand and feet turkeys (got this idea from my sister-in-law and it's a great one!)

Table full of little cuties.

Foam teepees (the girls all went authentic with pink).

 

Halloween 2013

Nothing like December to post about Halloween.  But I never got around to it, and I rely heavily on the blog to remind me of what we did throughout the year for our photo books. 

 Ida had decided on Cinderella so we picked out fabric and made her a Cinderella dress. Turns out being the Fairy Godmother means you work some long hours but Ida was in heaven when she woke up from her nap and got to "finally" put it on. (I think she expected me to pull it out of the pattern bag or something.)

Asa decided on Bumblebee, which was wonderful because he was extremely happy about his costume and we only had to pull it out of a bag!

And Sofie still has no say over what she is, so she was our little sushi roll.  Super cute and easy to do (and the big kids enjoyed pretending to eat her.)
The kids went to the Fall Carnival put on by the NSA students - and had a blast.  And then on Halloween, our wonderful neighbor came over with two huge buckets full of candy for Asa and Ida before trick or treating even began!  A trip downtown with Amara and Clark in the afternoon topped off the candy haul.  Then back to our house for our traditional mummy dogs and opening the door for trick or treaters. So much fun (and yes, we still have lots of candy sitting in the buckets still).