tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38932494686928621572024-03-12T18:56:34.137-04:00The Mommy DiariesDo I have anything to gain from this? Not really, but I like the idea of getting my thoughts out there. Hopefully other moms will read this and see that you are not alone. My kids are crazy too.Brittney Filterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09099820309333926846noreply@blogger.comBlogger85125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893249468692862157.post-16583228152435896682015-02-22T23:25:00.003-05:002015-02-22T23:25:56.471-05:00Valentines Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Looking back at this time last year we had snow! It's been cold, but no such luck so far. Personally, I'm 100% fine with no snow but the kids like it so I'd be okay with one day of it. As long as it's over the weekend. And starts on a Friday night and is gone by Sunday. And we don't lose power. And I don't end up having to do 5 loads of laundry due to having to switch out wet clothes every time they go out. On second thought, I don't need a day. The kids like other stuff too.<br />
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This year we built our traditional Valentine's day fort, Brian made the best pizza ever, and the kids found great satisfaction in not having to eat at the table because they got to eat in the floor in the fort. Trust me, it's a big deal. I got the kids a balloon from the dollar tree (which are still floating around) and you'd think I had given them the best thing ever. I don't understand what it is with kids and balloons. Bubbles are also a mystery.<br />
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Kids gave out valentines at school, which I put almost zero effort into. You'd think I'd go all cutesy on them, but no. That I can go generic on. I'm a very complex individual. I don't mind spending a lot of countless hours on my own kids, but for some random kids I don't know, nope. Not worth it. Which is what makes me the worst homeroom mom ever. But that's not the point. Ella on the other hand, got a very heartfelt little valentine (which was only given to her, not all the girls in the class). I have very mixed emotions about this. There's no way a 7/8 year old little boy came up with this on his own. This had some help. I'm not sure what the mom (surely this was not the help of a dad?) was going for with this. I realize it's just a little crush. I'm just not ready for this. Ella's not into all this right now! She shrugged it off. She said she doesn't really play with him and she thinks he's annoying. Hope she doesn't break his little heart. So NOT ready for this!! <br />
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<br />Brittney Filterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09099820309333926846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893249468692862157.post-47712051546791248122015-02-22T22:54:00.002-05:002015-02-22T23:01:43.017-05:00Tangled Up in Riley's 5th BirthdaySo glad Riley chose this as her party theme. Although it was kind of by default actually. When we did Maddex's birthday back in November we pretty much cleaned Party City out of their clearance section. Considering everything was .13-$2 we told the kids to go ahead and pick out what they wanted for their upcoming birthdays. Ella got monkey stuff and Aiden got a shark pinata. The only thing left was Disney princesses or Tangled. So Riley went with Rapunzel. We got streamers, napkins, pin the flower on the hair and a backdrop. Seemed like a good idea at the time.<br />
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Well, when we went to get everything out to plan for her party I realized that I don't like all the generic birthday stuff. I know this about myself and so I don't know why I even bought it in the first place. I'm sure the monkeys will hit me the same way in May. So I ended up only using the streamers and barely remembered the napkins mid party. I had much bigger plans for her birthday than pin the flower on the hair. Seriously though, what was I thinking? Impulse clearance got the best of me. <br />
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I wanted to make a tower. And it just so happened that I found the perfect boxes sitting at the end of someone's driveway! <i>Side note</i>: I found them when I was taking the kids to school. I'm sure I'm not the only mom that just throws whatever on and half the time doesn't even wear shoes to drop the kids off. I don't plan on anyone seeing me. We get in the van, we drive, they get out, we go home. Done. Unfortunately, this driveway is right on the main road to school so I'm sure I was in fact seen by people who know me. I can picture what I must have looked like cramming these boxes into the van looking like 'a hot mess', but I can swallow my pride on that one. <i> I had to have those boxes</i>. Now it's one thing for people to drive by and see me with the boxes, it's another when the owners come home. Yep. That's a whole new level of awkward I'd rather not have to encounter again. My children will never know what I go through for them...<br />
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First order of business, invites. I don't know why I was feeling overly crafty on this whole shin dig. Safe to say though I'm good for a while. I'm all crafted out. <br />
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What started as just making a Rapunzel tower turned into transforming our house into the set of the whole movie. Riley kept saying, "We're going to be in a play!" <br />
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The tower took up the whole middle of the front room.<br />
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Our living room was the kingdom on one side and the floating lights/lanterns and gondola on the other.<br />
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The kingdom was our little craft section. I had braids ready for the girls. Riley actually did most of the work. I used 2 spools of yarn (different shades of yellow) and we stuck a wooden spoon in the middle and she walked around and around and around and it just spun off. After that I cut it in half and separated it into how many I needed (5). Then I just braided them and tied it off. Really easy actually. I just used a metal barrette to clip it in their hair. I made a headband for Maddex because I didn't think her little pony tail could handle the weight. For that I just did a braid and weaved the headband (which was yellow) through it. <br />
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I had them all laid out so they could decorate their braids with flowers. So much cooler than pin the flower on the hair. We hot glued them:)<br />
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Our other little craft was making our own Pascal. I found the pipe cleaner chameleons <a href="http://www.linesacross.com/2011/08/chameleon-pipe-cleaner-animal-color-of.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>. I opted out on the googly eyes and we did a bead instead and used a sharpie for the eye. I had all different colors for them to pick. They really liked these! Everybody also got a frying pan (black paper plate with a handle stapled on). Also a hit. In both aspects...they immediately started bopping each other in the head. Which seemed to be totally cool with everybody:)<br />
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For the boys, our Ruffians and Thugs, I made satchels out of felt and swords out of left over cardboard. Riley helped sew the satchels too. I hid things around the house for the ruffians to steal and put in their satchels. There were gold coins, jewels, diamonds and the golden flower's magic (glow sticks). They really enjoyed that and it was good to have them running around doing that while the girls made their braids. This is the only picture I have of the satchel and sword (courtesy of the Ninja Turtle). The frying pans also doubled as paddles:) I love how they put their little Pascals on the front of the boat too. Cuties.<br />
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Speaking of ruffians and thugs..."They just can't get my nose right!"</div>
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The kitchen was the Snuggly Duckling (shocker, right?). When I told them we were open they came in like a stampede and snarfed everything down just as fast. Then off they went bouncing between the tower and the boat, the girls chasing after the boys. <br />
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They were all having so much fun I had to squeeze in doing cake and presents at the end. Grandma made her cake for her and had a little princess cupcake for each of the kids. <br />
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This was one of my favorite parties I've done. All the kids were so excited and played together so well. I had just enough purple dresses for all the girls and the boys really liked being the bad guys. Win win. I donated the props to the kids' school. Glad they will get used again. Happy Birthday Riley!!<br />
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<br />Brittney Filterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09099820309333926846noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893249468692862157.post-54350748124005030022015-01-28T18:07:00.000-05:002015-01-28T18:07:59.399-05:00January, the final month to catch up on!Meet Moe. He's our new addition to the family.<br />
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After getting home from Christmas weekend, Brian discovered that a neighborhood dog had gotten in our bunny cage (chewed his way in actually) and killed all four of our beloved bunnies. In the six months that we had them we <i>never</i> had a problem dogs in our yard and haven't seen one since. It was just a random thing. Obviously, the kids were VERY upset when we told them. About a week later, we got Moe. He was in need of a home and the kids were in need of a new bunny. He's inside for now. Come spring time we'll mend the bunny cage outside and get Moe some friends. Until then, the kids are thoroughly enjoying having him inside.<br />
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Straightened Riley's hair for church. She liked flitting it around. She's not the same kid without her curls!</div>
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Ella had Immigrant Day at school. We had fun with it. She was given the name Aisling Daly. She was and Irish seamstress from the 1800's. The 2nd graders were to immigrate to Ellis Island.</div>
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To start of with, Ella got a haircut! It was a bold move. She wanted short hair with bangs. I was reluctant, but took on the 'it'll grow back' approach. Not everybody can pull off that look without looking like a five year old. Not her though!<br />
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I want to add in the kids projects they had to do for school. Here's Aiden's. They had a paper tree and had to decorate it, <i>creatively</i>. Safe to say, his was the only one made of legos. I love the flaming Batman atop the tree.<br />
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Ella had a heritage project where she was supposed to collect information about her ancestors. We made a video.<br />
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Christmas pictures with the kids. A daunting task. We survived. <i>Barely.</i><br />
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I only took one picture of each of the kids on Christmas morning. Don't know how that happened. Anyway, Build-a-Bears for everybody! I had gotten them months before at a yard sale for $5. I told the kids we could destuff them and I'd take them to the mall to go through the Build-a-Bear experience, but they passed. Guess it is kind of morbid in a way. Poor deprived children don't know what they're missing. I tried to get everything for Christmas beforehand anticipating we'd be pretty broke considering we were just opening the business. It was a second hand Christmas, and nobody seemed to question or care! Good little children. So far I've managed to shield them from thinking that 'new' things actually have to be 'new'.<br />
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For Brian, I signed him up for <a href="http://www.sendmeasurprise.com/" target="_blank">SendMeASurprise</a>. So, for the next six months, he'll receive a package a month and we don't know what's inside. It's a surprise!Brittney Filterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09099820309333926846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893249468692862157.post-73752890177989293952015-01-27T18:32:00.002-05:002015-01-27T20:15:14.217-05:00November, The Terrible is Two!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
There really is no excuse for me not blogging about Maddex's birthday! Birthdays are what keeps me going! It had been a very busy few months. We started prepping for the business back in August. We've been <i>talking</i> about the business for what seems like forever! The concept was simple, go mobile. But we had a lot of things to work out before we could open. I immersed myself into helping Brian get things going and all that starting a business entails. We took a leap of faith with not much of a leg to stand on and we officially opened <a href="http://www.filterchiro.com/" target="_blank">Filter Chiropractic</a> on November 3!</div>
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Brian came up with the idea to have a Terrible Two party. It was small and just enough to push a little girl over the edge:) I had fun with the invite.<br />
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We decided on an ice cream bar complete with all the toppings. I kind of just used stuff I've had on hand and ended up getting Olivia stuff because it was .13 at Party city. So I combined the two. <br />
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I had 'rule of life #__' all over the house. Things like 'Rule of life #472 If you leave crayons out, a two year old will color on the wall' 'Rule of life # 85 Two year olds like to destroy things, give them something to destroy' (this was hung on the pinata). 'Rule of life #17, Two year olds are messy. They will leave hand prints on everything. You get the idea. One of my personal favorites-<br />
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Speaking of crying...it was her party and she cried 'cause she wanted to.<br />
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We've never done pinatas before but it was another clearance ($2) steal from Party City.<br />
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We did let the big kids bust it. I had Frozen gummies inside. Woohoo!<br />
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Ahh, Maddex...so cute and yet so 2...<br />
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Ella had a school project-turn a pumpkin into a storybook character. Naturally, we made something awesome!<br />
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We picked our giant pumpkin from the garden and got 'regular' ones to carve.<br />
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Riley's on a roll. Princess every year! How much longer will this phase last?? Maddex was a fairy. Little dress I picked up at a yard sale for .25. </div>
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We had our Halloween party for the kids and their friends too, but I didn't take a single picture!Brittney Filterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09099820309333926846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893249468692862157.post-54217820748666695292015-01-27T14:24:00.000-05:002015-01-27T14:24:02.877-05:00SeptemberSo Krispy Kreme had a 'Dress up like a Pirate day'. Each person that dresses like a pirate gets a box of doughnuts. A BOX. Needless to say, we were totally doing this. Six dozen doughnuts? Sure, why not? In my defense, we did give three boxes away. And one box was cleaned out before we ever made it home. Gotta love Krispy Kreme. Bet they won't do that again.<br />
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Maddex moved out of her crib! She had been climbing out for a week so I figured it was time. She was so excited!<br />
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After our boating weekend we went home and had lake life envy so we bought a canoe. This was our big farewell to summer before school started back. We canoed on the lake but found a river just around the corner the we enjoy a lot more.<br />
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Back to the grind. Ella started 2nd grade and Aiden 1st. One more year left with my Riley girl!<br />
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I didn't get many pictures of Ella in the water because she spent most of her time on the water slides. Aiden and Riley are best buds and stuck together the whole time. Thick as thieves those two.<br />
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We hit up Cow Appreciation day at Chic-fil-a...twice.<br />
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Brian and the kids pulled up the garden and planted pumpkins for the fall. Oh, and we got bunnies! Brian built a fence out back big enough for the kids to be able to sit and hang out in. The timing was a little sooner than we planned (maybe just a few weeks). The clover we planted in there wasn't fully sprouted yet, but there was someone local selling three sisters (Mini Rex rabbits) and we didn't want to pass them up. So here are Patches (Ella's), Nibbles (Aiden's) and Abby (Riley's). <br />
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Later that day someone posted they wanted to give their bunny away (and Brian was wanting another one for Maddex anyway) so we picked up Cooper the next day. Long tickling whiskers! <br />
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He (a fixed he) was SO fluffy, hair flying everywhere. He had only been inside for the past 4 years, and with the July heat the fur had to go. So Brian gave him a shall we say, rather jacked up haircut. The kids love those buns! <br />
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I found this video on my phone a few months ago. Funny!<br />
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<br />Brittney Filterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09099820309333926846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893249468692862157.post-16563928753552566972015-01-24T13:40:00.000-05:002015-01-24T13:40:22.510-05:00JuneNo blog since May?? Really??? Where have my priorities gone? I'll see if I can sum up 8 months as briefly as possible. <br />
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<u>June</u><br />
Ella and Aiden graduated from Kindergarten and first grade. Hello summer!<br />
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Ella started her own business, Ella's Assistance, to earn money for Legos (the Sunshine Ranch to be exact).<br />
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Little stinker made $170!! I thought she'd be lucky to hit $50. She put in the work though, mostly baking and selling her art. <br />
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I know what it looks like. June wasn't ALL about Ella. Although, she did catch her first fish and Aiden found a turtle that one time.<br />
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Oh and we had a garden! Alright, fine. It was a lot of Ella. I realize that now. July was more eventful anyway.<br />
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Mr. 'I'm Too Cool For Pictures' is six years old!</div>
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I'm not gonna lie, I was a little disappointed with his birthday party choice. Let down #1: he wanted a pool party. Let down #2: he wanted a MOTORCYCLE pool party.<br />
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Really? A pool party? That means I don't get to make anything. Boo! How dare he rob me of my late nights pouring countless hours into tedious party creating! But if that's what he wants, then I will comply. <br />
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Really? Motorcycles? That doesn't even go with a pool theme! We could have done sharks or battleships or pirates for cryin out loud! How did he not inherit the party planning gene?? And FYI, local party stores do not sell motorcycle stuff. <br />
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I ordered the balloons from <a href="http://www.bargainballoons.com/10Browse.asp?Search=motorcycle&Page=1&Display=High&quickSearchType=AnyWord" target="_blank">Bargain Balloons</a>. I got them for just over $2 a piece! At the end I sent them home with his friends as party favors:) I also spent at least 30 minutes digging through the Hotwheel bin at Wal-Mart and raided them of all their motorcycles. Luckily, I found just enough for his friends and one for him too! He had 4 little boys come (I like to keep things small) and they all had a great time! This is the year of chill because like Ella's party, it seemed unusually relaxed and calm. I expected for 5 boys to be all over the place, but they were great!<br />
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Now I can breathe a sigh of relief. Birthdays are over until little Miss Baby Pain turns 2!</div>
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Since I've gotten quite slack keeping up to date, I thought I'd go back and add in some pictures and videos from the past few months. Big things have been happening here!! Okay, not really, but it just makes me feel better. The gap is just way too big.<br />
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Rewind back to February, er, March, whatever. Brian turned 30! We took him on a little weekend vacay to Helen, GA.<br />
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hiking (if I recall this was right before she bit the dust)</div>
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and road rash (and that ended those shoes).</div>
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And my gift to Brian, some good ole fashioned zip lining! We're so cool.</div>
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I like to document these moments when I'm actually letting them get dirty. I'm not such a stick in the mud after all. Get it? Stick in the mud? ...Brian's one lucky guy. I'm cool AND funny:)</div>
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Easter. I had planned on retaking these pictures because they didn't turn out the way I wanted them to. A certain somebody kept crying and climbing out of the basket and running away. So I decided these would be their 'spring' pictures and I'd have cute little Easter ones of them in baskets and blowing bubbles. Well, that never happened. Thus the 'spring' pictures remained their 'Easter' pictures. This little photo session ended in a bloody toe. I have these pictures saved in a folder labeled 'pain'. And it was, in every sense of the word:) </div>
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Fast forward to this past weekend, the official birthday party. Ella decided on an 'Art Party'. This actually came together really easily. Guess it helps when I've got a whole closet full of art supplies though. This was probably the most low key party we've had. And my most minimal! I actually didn't construct anything this time! Unless you count the construction paper chains...<br />
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They started out doing water color paintings. Ella picked out these doughnut soaps to make, so I had the kids take turns doing the steps in the mean time (they took about 45 min to set). Then they made their tin can stilts. I debated about letting them paint them, but I think the foam stickers were a good choice. We came back to the doughnuts and finished frosting and putting sprinkles on. They really were cute.</div>
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Brian passed out humongous slices of cake. Aiden was pretty stoked. Ella said next year she's having chocolate:) Live and learn I guess.</div>
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I just have to add this of Maddex. Coming down to a room full of more than the usual number of kids is quite the wake up call:)</div>
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I let Ella record before her friends got here, so naturally it's a little all over the place. Here's a little video montage of the party. Happy 7th Birthday, Ella!</div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">So last week Riley had a birthday. Rockstar Riley is four!! We've been planning on this rock star party since October! Thanks to the 90% off Halloween clearance, we stocked up on wigs for $0.50 just for this occasion. Remember these? </span></div>
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Brian and I were also thinking ahead when we got her a karaoke machine for Christmas...with flashing lights. A bunch of kids and a microphone? This won't be noisy at all!</div>
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So here's some pre-show pictures and some from the party too.</div>
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A sneak peek backstage. Spiked slap bracelets + flashy rings=party favor winners!</div>
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We sort of forgot about the (finished) cake being in the oven. And then we remembered it after preheating the oven. Thus, the melted sad looking cake. Oh well. She liked it anyway.</div>
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Here's a little video of the kids before the party officially started. They were pretty stinkin cute.</div>
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And I'm just going to piggy back the Blizzard of 2014/Valentine's Day on here too. I'm caught up!</div>
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I made a snowman!</div>
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Maddex didn't actually get any play time. I let her out just long enough to snap some valentine pictures. This is the best one!<br />
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Here's Ella and Brian sledding down the street in front of the house.</div>
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Get ready for a lot of pictures. Aiden's got a serious "I'm gonna nail you with this snowball" look on his face. Glad I'm not his sister.<br />
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Brian made the kids a hand warming/glove drying station. I think he just really wanted to build a fire.</div>
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Aside from snapping some pictures, I spent the better part of the day keeping warm inside with Maddex. It's tough job, but somebody's gotta do it!</div>
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So this was about the extent of our snow day. We did make cookies and snow cream (4c snow, 1c milk, 1/2c sugar, 1tsp vanilla), which tasted a lot like the ice dream they sell at Chic fil a. Now I know what that secret ingredient is. <br />
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And in true southern ghetto fashion, we rummaged through the garage for sleddish type things. How about that plastic table top? Sure, why not.<br />
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Nothing says Happy Birthday like a Garden Gnome Party! I have no idea why I picked this as a theme. Something about the red and white just seemed suiting for her.</div>
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Recognize these blocks from the <a href="http://brittneyfilter.blogspot.com/2011/08/trust-me-no-one-is-as-surprised-as-i-am.html" target="_blank">crabitats</a> or perhaps <a href="http://brittneyfilter.blogspot.com/2013/06/aiden-under-construction.html" target="_blank">Aiden's construction party</a>? I'm so happy with my little block decor. Scrapbook paper and countless hours really go a long way! PS, no blocks were permanently defaced as I am sure I will use them again! Like you were really concerned, right?<br />
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I opted out on the cake. Didn't fit the theme:) We had pumpkin pie and mini apple pies instead. <br />
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I made the toadstool out of a $5 table I found at Goodwill. I thought the kids (and adults too) would get a kick out of taking gnome pictures. I couldn't get Maddex to wear a beard, but she was nice enough to leave the hat on for 10 seconds at a time.<br />
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Don't be surprised when we are all gnomes for Halloween next year. Or maybe I can even carry it over into Christmas and dress up a snowman like a gnome just so I can caption it "Chillin' with my Gnomie". They're kind of like elves. Gnome on a shelf? Secretly start bearding random objects in the house? Eh, I guess I need to let go. Could it be that I'm hanging on to my LAST baby and her LAST first birthday? </div>
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I wanted to squeeze in Halloween pictures before I get too far behind. I don't know why, but I was SO OVER Halloween this year. Probably because we started decorating way too early and I had a haunted house taking over our play room for over 2 weeks. I constructed this monstrosity for the kids to play in with their friends. It was a success, but I think even the kids were done with it after a week! I couldn't wait for Nov.1 to come so I could take that bad boy down! The kids had more than enough festivities to last them until next year. We took them to Boo at the Zoo, Trunk or Treat and good old fashioned trick or treating. We will also be paying it forward today and taking the remainder of our candy to the dentist so they can "ship it to the troops"...I put quotations around that because I'm not 100% convinced that's what they really do with it. We got enough Easter and Valentine candy to convince me that they are probably stashing it for themselves for next year so they don't have to shell out any money to buy candy. <strike>Cheapskate dentists</strike>. Whether they do or not, I'm still donating. We're all out of chocolate now anyway.<br />
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Boo at the Zoo. Brian may be the first person ever to be dressed as googly eyes...<br />
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Accidentally grew pumpkins and squash (that's what happens when you use compost dirt, things just sprout!)</div>
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Here's a video of the 'haunted house' and the kid's most very favorite Halloween song <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbikD5hEi0w&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a><br />
and if you want to watch me teasing Aiden again, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=strPAtFhjgI" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a><br />
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And of course, there's the after Halloween clearance sales for next year too!<br />
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Whew, Halloween's over!Brittney Filterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09099820309333926846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893249468692862157.post-91738158178155965152013-10-11T16:32:00.000-04:002013-10-11T16:32:53.511-04:00Eleven, ElevenSo today is the 11th and Maddex is 11 months old! Ironic since her birthday is actually 11/11...this time next month she'll be turning the big ONE! I should start party planning right away. First I gotta get a Halloween Party under my belt and THEN I can focus.<br />
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Moving right along...I can <i>finally</i> giver her credit for saying her first word! She's can say 'uh-oh'. Exciting, right? Mostly she hums it, but she'll let it out occasionally. She's got a few approximations too...all done, bath and diaper. I have yet to get 'diaper' on film. I harassed her at lunchtime trying to get her to perform. And what a difference a week makes in her walking progress! I'm not calling her a walker just yet (she still crawls most of the time) but I've stopped counting steps. If she really puts her mind and her feet in the right place, she can get where she wants to go.<br />
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Brittney Filterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09099820309333926846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893249468692862157.post-31160313458245885532013-09-13T14:51:00.000-04:002013-09-13T14:51:08.760-04:00Ten Out of TenThis is really getting more and more challenging. Getting this girl to stay in the bean bag was my biggest accomplishment for the day. She found it much more entertaining to roll around in it and make herself fall out. Glad she was having fun and that she was nice enough to give me one picture I could work with!<br />
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And on an unrelated note, I found my long lost brown eyed girl!</div>
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Brittney Filterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09099820309333926846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893249468692862157.post-38574161098410679482013-08-15T15:49:00.000-04:002013-08-15T15:49:39.891-04:00Summer VacationThis has been our first official <i>summer vacation</i>. It doesn't really count when your kids aren't in school because let's face it, when you stay home with your kids and your husband is working full time (with VERY little time off) every day, every season, pretty much seems the same. <br />
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I felt a little guilty not planning a better summer vacation (can I just call it SV?) for Ella, but we moved right smack in the middle of it. So the first half was packing, and the last part has been<i> un</i>packing. But we managed to squeeze in a little fun in between. <br />
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So you know how when you start back to school your first homework assignment is to write a paper entitled 'How I Spent My Summer Vacation'? Well, here's mine.<br />
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We kicked off the summer with our one and only family get away by taking Brian to the beach for Father's Day.<br />
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I had a hard time choosing what pictures to post (this one of Maddex is my favorite), so I made a video instead. Our beach trip was short and sweet, but just what the doctor ordered. Brian realllllllly needed the break.</div>
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I blocked out the two weeks prior to us moving and assigned which room was getting packed on each day. It wasn't so bad, and the kids were more than willing to help.<br />
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'Moo'ving right along into July. Pun intended. In the cow way and the moving way. This was the day we got the keys to the new house and we got free food (twice) on Cow Appreciation Day at Chic-fil-a. If you missed it this year, mark your calendars for July 15, 2014!<br />
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We also got to see this almost perfectly arched rainbow hanging out over the Toyota dealership.<br />
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And the next day, WE MOVED!</div>
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The kids love the new house, especially because of the swanky neighborhood pool. We go several times a week. And they learned how to swim too!</div>
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A few other summer highlights...</div>
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Ella grew up.</div>
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I stayed up waaaaaaaay too late.</div>
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Maddex learned to drive.</div>
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Aiden earned 'cool brother points'. After the girls helped him clean up his room one day he stayed upstairs and came down with these flowers he made for each of the girls. He handed them each one and said "Thank you for helping me clean up my room, I made you this flower." It was so sweet, I couldn't help but document his kind gesture.</div>
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Maddex got her first tooth!! The second one came a week later.</div>
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I've kept Brian busy on the weekends helping me with several building projects. He'll be relieved when it's all over. I'll post them in their entirety later...</div>
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Oh, and I almost forgot. Maddex turned 9 months!</div>
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The kids discovered a little bird nest.. last week? I don't know. I've been packing for 2 weeks, the days just kind of run together at this point. Ella couldn't be more excited! She loves birds. And nature. And trees. And flowers. And birds. Did I mention birds? She was practically jumping out of her skin to grab her camera to take pictures of the babies. In case you are wondering, they're cardinals. <strike>Ugly little things. </strike> I mean, "They're so cute!" Ella's famous line. She really is getting quite good!</div>
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Ready for this? Flamingos. </div>
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They've been so excited about the flamingo eggs. Nice action shot, Ella! She took this picture about a month ago.</div>
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But one thing about going to the zoo every week is being able to see things like this...</div>
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This is actually from a week after the baby was born. Brian and the kids were there the day this little fella hatched, just a few hours old. He said it kept falling out of the nest:) Ella didn't bring her camera that day, but came fully prepared this time! Good thing her memory card can only hold 50 pictures. She goes off with her camera and only quits when it says <i>'Memory card full</i>'. I actually enjoy uploading her pictures. They're so random.</div>
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In other news, it's that time again! Maddex is eight months old today! She started clapping last week AND she's a full blown crawler now. Which means I'm constantly swabbing things out of her mouth. Yesterday she was gagging on a single carpet fiber with a glue drop on the end. Really Maddex? How did you find that!?! Little stinker.</div>
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Hey, look at that...everyone's <i>almost</i> looking!</div>
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In my desperation, my dear husband thought it might keep their spirits up by throwing crickets at them.</div>
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It kind of worked?</div>
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Me too, Maddex. Me too. I give up.</div>
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And in other news...look who was scurrying around the kitchen tonight. She's been holding out on me. </div>
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I barely got her to sit still for her picture. She's a squirmy little thing and all she wanted to do was try to get down. Her body language makes this pretty clear in her picture, don't ya think? <br />
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I finally relieved her of her duties and let her get down. Poor girl, she is reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally wanting to crawl. Rolling around the floor to get where you want to go is just down right frustrating at this point. Can't say that I blame her. It's also probably pretty annoying to have your mom just sit there and laugh at you too. I just lost 2 Cool Mom points.<br />
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This is a really sweet video. Yesterday when Ella woke up from her nap (yes, she still naps!!) she came and laid in bed with me (yes, I still nap too!!). I kind of dozed back off and when I woke up she was gone. This is where I found her:) Her patience is quite endearing.<br />
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It has been a rainy week and the kids wanted to play in the mud and dig for worms. When I saw Riley I rushed in to grab my camera- Oh yeah, no camera, dern. But I had to take a video. I couldn't resist Riley sitting in her floatie in ankle deep water:)<br />
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<br />Brittney Filterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09099820309333926846noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893249468692862157.post-20841828694559687612013-06-03T23:58:00.000-04:002013-06-03T23:58:44.528-04:00Aiden: Under ConstructionSo it's just over a week past, but it was party time yet again at the Filter's house! I asked Aiden what kind of party he wanted for his 5th birthday. After several back and forths between bugs or dinosaurs or fire trucks or worms or motorcycles or race cars, he FINALLY decided on 'a Worker Party'. ...Come again? Like a construction worker? Really? I had kind of gotten my heart set on the motorcycles or even the worms. I didn't see this one coming, but that's what he wanted. Even after a week he still hadn't changed his mind. So here's Aiden's 'Under Construction' party. <br />
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<i>Side note: I might have over compensated with the video and pictures to make up for the lack thereof from Ella's party. But bear with me. I'm like an addict trying to detox. I can only let go a little bit at a time. I have to be able to hold out 6 more months for Maddex's birthday before I can host an event again... </i><br />
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This is why I mentally plan their parties months in advance. Because I stumble across funky things like those 2 huge styrofoam pieces I found on the curb of a wine shop. The only thing I can come up with was that a chair was shipped in them? I had originally stopped because of the boxes I needed for Ella's tiki hut only to discover these rare gems along side them. Had I not known I was doing 'a worker party', that foam would not have screamed at me, "Make me into a tractor!" This whole set up is practically left overs. The only thing new was the caution tape, black spray paint and the 'oops' paint in the clearance section (and what a perfect yellow it was too!).<br />
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The front loader is made from the 2 pieces of styrofoam with a box across the front. The "grill" is the rubbery liner you put in your cabinets (I had this because I used it under the rug instead of an actual rug pad-it's cheaper and does the same thing!) spray painted black. The shovel is a gardening box attatched with those plastic candy canes people put in their yards at Christmas time (courtesy of the Goodwill). I stuck the hook part of the candy cane through a pool noodle to keep it nice and snug inside. I needed something so it wouldn't pull through so I swiped the handles off of one of the kids old bikes. The tires were from Aiden's <a href="http://brittneyfilter.blogspot.com/2012/05/muddy-monster-truck-party.html" target="_blank">Monster Truck Party</a> which were pretty much pulverized considering the amount of slip n sliding they went through last summer. So I stuffed them.<br />
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Brian gets credit for the shredded cardboard to be used as dirt. That was actually a genius idea considering everything I was coming up with would have knocked kids out. <br />
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Wrecking ball look familiar? One of Ella's beach balls from the luau. I have been saving the kids' Yoplait yogurt containers for months! Poor design when it comes to eating out of it (why the top is small and gets bigger at the bottom is beyond me-for little spoons only!) but great for stacking. When I started saving them I knew I could use them for something and once I got wrecking ball in my mind, well, it was just meant to be.<br />
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Time cards, hats and free aprons from home depot! Measure and sand the wood pieces. All very lame compared to the <strike>beans</strike> I mean rubble. <br />
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I wasn't sure which would be the bigger hit. The beans or the demolition area. But I think it was a fair toss up! They spent more time filling their hats and dumping them on their heads than anything else:)<br />
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Here's one of those 'well it sounded good in theory' type things. Hammering nails (golf tees) into styrofoam. Won't make that mistake again. End of story. Blueprints for the blocks. On the off chance that 5 little boys will want to sit and do a calm activity. In case you were wondering, crazy is waaaaaaaay more fun than calm. <br />
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I found these finger mustaches at the dollar store a while back. I couldn't resist! How can you work in construction without having a mustache?<br />
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Aiden wanted cupcakes, not cake. So I took him to the store and he picked out lemon cake and lemon frosting. If I were solely in charge, the cupcakes would have ended up being chocolate (dirt...since that's a <i>totally</i> creative idea, right?). But I let the kids be in charge of their cake/non-cakes and I have to say, I like where he went with this! I would have never picked that out and they were so good! I kind of wish I had one right now. He had no requests, just frosting. Simple is good. I like this guy!<br />
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Another simple move I made was ditching the finger foods and just sending the kids out on the porch with sack lunches (so cunningly appropriate). Apparently Maddex's jar of baby food just wasn't cutting it:) <br />
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I punched the kids' cards for a full days work and sent them home with some hard earned cash...and trail mix. Why trail mix? I have no idea. It's what Aiden picked out. Again, if it were up to me, it would have been chocolate coins to go along with the bills. I guess I'm just partial to chocolate?<br />
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The aftermath. Crushed hats and a deflated wrecking ball. If only I had thought to snag a picture of what used to be the hammering station. I'm sure you can imagine though. Think bean bag pinata. And broken golf tees. <br />
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Happy Birthday, Aiden! You're my main man!<br />
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Brittney Filterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09099820309333926846noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893249468692862157.post-57589846132587383312013-05-20T14:38:00.000-04:002013-05-20T14:38:09.903-04:00Mud ManiaThe kids have been counting down the days for Mud Mania! The girls got muddy and Aiden just wanted to play in the sand. Figures. He said, "I don't want to be all orange." Hey, that's one less muddy kid. I can dig it..get it? Dig it? Okay...I'll pretend that was funny.<br />
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I love this little video of Brian tossing Riley in the mud. Thunk. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_yMND5V4lg&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a> (the thing is being screwy and not letting me post the video directly).<br />
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Maddex and I just sat in the grass and watched from a safe non-muddy distance. I didn't take any pictures of her on Saturday, but here's one from this morning. I like them when they're clean...<br />
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