Happy 3rd Birthday!

The morning of their birthday, we had a little celebration at home. Here are the birthday girls coming downstairs

Mommy and Alex

We put candles in their waffles, but Helen was scared of the "fire" and smoke so we had to take hers out

Alex blows out his candle

Ella blows out her candle

Opening their presents and cards

Helen is still a little gun shy from the candle episode

Ella opens her card

Alex wears his firetruck hat from Grandma

They got tricycles for their birthday but had some trouble mastering the technique

Helen resorts to pushing hers while Alex gives it a good try

Daddy helps the girls

Daddy explaining to everyone who all the superheros are in Alex's new toy

For their birthday party, we went to a bouncy place where the kids and their friends could jump and slide to their heart's content. Here's Ella climbing into one.

Mommy and Ella

Alex plays air hockey

Helen and Ella coming down the slide (mommy went down with them once and that was enough for mommy)

Daddy goes down with Ella

Ella and Alex getting off the slide

The girls try to get a prize out of a game

Daddy is captured by the giant Nijasaur slide

Not sure who had more fun - Daddy or the kids

Alex coming down the slide

Mommy trying to get the kids to sit still for a picture

A group picture in front of the Ninjasaur

I let each of the kids pick out their own cake. This is Alex's airplane cake.

Ella's fairy cake

Helen's princess cake

Helen eating her ice cream

Ella eating her ice cream

Singing happy birthday and patiently waiting to dig in

Alex licks the icing off of his airplane

Helen eats her cake and plays with her princesses

Ella is more interested in her fairies than her cake

Alex and Hunter both have their guitar shirts on!

We had a great birthday and are so excited to be 3 now :)

Happy Halloween!

Tinker Bell gets ready for her big night

Tinker Bell, Cinderella, and Buzz Lightyear are all ready to hit the town!

Cinderella takes her princess duties very seriously and sits like a lady

Buzz is very excited about the addition of wings to his costume. Although he was not used to his new wingspan and took out his sisters on several occassions by smacking them in the face with his wings

Tinker Bell all assembled. It did not take long to lose the wand, for the crown to fall off, and the wings to go crooked. But she looked good when we started!

Buzz and Cinderella patiently waiting

Tinker Bell is ready to get the show on the road

Buzz, Tink, and Cinderella

Grandma and Grandpa stayed home and handed out candy so that we could hit the streets

Coming back from another big candy score. We practiced trick or treat and thank you before we left but once they saw how much candy they were getting, they started to just dive right into the bowls. If Helen could have had her way, she would have eaten it all as fast as it was going into her bucket.

Cinderella with a mouthful of chocolate

Cinderella and Buzz take a break in the wagon on the way to another house

Cinderella is loving all of this free candy!

Tink gets a ride on Daddy's shoulders

Tinker Bell with vampire teeth

Buzz flying on Daddy's shoulders

A big thank you to Kendal who came trick or treating with us and took all of these pictures. He also helped us keep track of the kids which was not an easy task with them running in different directions amid hundreds of other kids. But we all had a great time!

At the pumpkin patch

Picking out our pumpkins