Fancy Nancy Gala...That's a fancy way of saying "Party!"

BayLea's birthday was Fancy Nancy themed. The girls came dressed in their finest! They were all so cute!

Especially this one...




And this one!

Mimi was the only adult dressed up. She looked great!






Breccan felt very proud to be dressed all fine and dandy too! His hat was my grandpa's, my dad's dad. He had a very little head.




Pa is getting the cotton candy ready.










We had a pinata, and I got a few pictures but they were all of the guests pulling the string. The ones of BayLea and Breccan I overexposed to point of no return! Dang it!

Cake time...



















Sarah, our neighbor. Her dad took some of the pictures for me. He took all of the cake celebration pictures.




















Mommy and daddy got her the Panda Bear FurReal pet. She really liked it. She had such a great time opening presents and she was so polite and sweet to everyone.

And then, since they hadn't had quite enough sugar, we had to make the cotton candy for them.










Many, many of her gifts were crafting type things. She had a ball with that! She is an amazing little artist and she loves to craft and so it was perfect. This sand art project was the first one she did after her guests left. And then she did her jewelry box craft. Thank you to everyone who came and for all the gifts!!! You helped to make my girl's day special!

More from BayLea's birthday

BayLea had dance on her birthday and then we celebrated with dinner at Red Robin (did that last year too!).









Oh and Breccan found my candy stash at work...






She opened some presents from Mimi and Pa. A really nice little outfit and some girl legos!






They sang to her which she loves and wants, but won't look at them while they do it! LOL





And when we got home she opened a couple presents from us.



She had a nice day.

BayLea is 6! I can't believe it!

Today was her birthday! Six years...unreal.


Here she is on her first birthday, eating her first piece of cake.


And here she is this morning through the afternoon.




Before school she had to teach me..."The b in my name is saying the right thing. The a is too, but you don't hear the y." Etc.





And then we met Mimi for lunch at Thai Chilis. Yummy! And Mimi had a present for BayLea.


The cookies left over from her birthday at school.


Here she is saying "I know what this is! A movie!" It was Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.

Art

All the gunk on there that looks like smeared charcole is on my scanner. Time to clean the scanner!

Some ice pictures...

Stopped by the river on the way to work to take some frost/ice pictures...

Denver Trip...Zoo Lights

We went to Denver so that I could attend a photography workshop (Sandy Puc). We stopped off at the zoo to see the Zoo Lights when we got into Denver. There were TONS of people there. I took a few photos, but I didn't have a tri-pod, so they're not that creative!









These first four were with my little point and shoot because it had a flash to light their faces. My big camera doesn't have a flash and I forgot to bring my external flash...











And we had to ride the carosel, which was pretty fun!




Sunday morning this kids woke up before 6:00 and they were hungry. Since Daddy was in bed still snoring away with the pillow and Breccan's blanket piled on top of his head, I figured he wasn't getting up any time soon to go to breakfast. So I ordered up a fruit plate for them to tide them over.

Last Meal of 2009

For New Year's Dinner we had Sweet and Sour Chicken, rice, and egg drop soup. It was all really tasty, especially the sweet and sour chicken.

Sweet and Sour Chicken recipe came from here...
http://creatingpostitnotes.blogspot.com/2008/03/wok-this-way.html

Egg drop soup from here...
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Restaurant-Style-Egg-Drop-Soup/Detail.aspx


Ready to eat...I meant to put some candles on the table, but dinner was finishing up too quickly!!!


Cheers to 2009! (we're drinking water, folks!)



2009 has been crazy busy, and lots of fun. Here's looking forward to another great year!