WONDERLAND aka Lucas' Party!!

So the party came and went with success!! This will be a picture over load! I wanted you to get the full effect of actually being there, plus for those of you that were unable to make it... and for Lucas and Avary to see when they are older especially when they say "you never do anything for me" we will be able to show them the pictures from their huge party party we threw!

Welcome to Wonderland!

The entrance to lead to the back yard aka the rabbit hole.

along the wall leading to the back yard had signs we made, you can't really tell what they are... One says "Lucas is 1" and the other says "Avary is 1"

Signs that say... Yonder, queens croquet, here, there, house of bounce, we are all mad here, wrong way.

Tables and chairs for our guests to sit at.

The centerpieces for the round tables.

Each Center piece had a hand painted Tea Cup with a colorful assortment of flowers, lollipops and pin wheels in it. And one picture each of Avary and Lucas from the photo shoot.

All the kids got to take home a pinwheel & lollipop out of the center pieces along with a goodie bag!

 The mad hatter buffet table...

two highchairs set up for each of the Birthday boy and girl.

 Cup Cakes, they were VERY colorful on the inside, each cupcake was an individual surprise for whoever bit into it.

 Chicken salad Sandwiches

 penutbutter and Jelly sandwiches

 more cupcakes...

Strawberries

Grapes, cookies, queen of heart brownies. (all the brownies were in the shape of a heart)

more cupcake toppers

Croquet People... (Sarah did a great job on making them!)

The Queen of Hearts

The White Rabbit

The Caterpillar

a playing card.

Rockwell playing some croquet.

Face painting was big hit with the kids.

 William

 Jay Jay

Corben

 but the big winner had to be the bounce house. kids young and old loved it!!

 we had quite a few children entertained for a good long time.

 HORRIBLE pic, but it was the only one I had of our "Happy Birthday" sign we made.... you can't even tell what it is!

HORRIBLE pic again but it was the only one (for some reason?!) that I had of the cakes!

 Then we brought out the cakes... (these are a little out of order)

 he had a few melt downs...

 he shared with me! he would lick his finger and then let me lick his finger, it went back and forth for awhile.

 When he was done... He didn't do too much damage on that thing.

a big THANKS to these two for making Lucas and Avary's Cakes!

 one of the Guests of Honor! The birthday girl her self, Miss Avary Elle

Some of our guests include but are not limited to... (I didn't get a chance to take a picture of everyone)

 Braden

 Beckham (showing off what he found in his goodie bag)

 The always fun Haylee Ray

 Horrible picture!! (sorry!) but darling baby, Skyler

 Raya, Eyla and Rockwell

 another Haylee Ray just cause shes so funny.

 Julianna, Baby Ruby, and My sister Brittany

 SO cute Tyler

Miss SydneyRella

The always adorable Kambria 

New baby Claire & her auntie Mallory

 opening a couple presents

"L.S." on the back of his "1" onesie. just for fun. haha

error???

UGH! I have been trying to upload all the pictures from Lucas' party and it keeps saying "Server Rejected" ?? ... what am I supposed to do!? any suggestions? I have uploaded a handful, but it's hit and miss, I'll get one picture out of like 10 to work? I shut everything down gave it a second and rebooted it. I have never had this happen before? as soon as I figure out how to fix it then you will be able to see the party pictures! stand by!

we've been doing a lot of this lately...

 William has become a pro at driving the truck! Hes only 2 and he is actually pretty good! He drives all over the place, and this thing can go pretty fast, If I want a picture of the front of them then they have to stop! I had a lot of pics of them from behind.  I will run along side them as they drive on the street. It makes me keep up with them even when I want to stop! haha! If I slow down too much then they are too far ahead of me! It's hilarious to see these little dudes cruising down the street, and they LOVE it! 

 Lucas waves at me over and over like he is on parade.

Coloring, Hunting, & Rolling Eggs

Our weekend started on {Friday} with coloring/dying our eggs....

  please do not judge the Christmas jammie's in April. :)

 on {Saturday} we celebrated Easter with my family with our annual Easter egg hunt for the kids, and the egg rolling competition.

 Every child has the same amount of eggs, and their own color.  It makes it nice and fair.

 Lucas does his crab crawl super fast.

 This picture cracks me up because of Lucas' face!

 me adorable husband.. he doesn't get in too many pictures... I need to take more of him! :)

 Lucas checking out his loot

 I left him alone for one second and he ripped open his chocolate... he was a mess... so in we went for a quick clothes change.

 Lucas quickly made Friends with Dean... or was it Dean made quick friends with Lucas, All the adults new Lucas couldn't eat all of his candy by him self so we helped... but dean kept feeding Lucas his candy, he was loving it!

 nerds... he liked those too.

 malt balls..

 hanging out with uncle dean.

 The amount of candy my children have eaten the past few days makes me sick! that is ALL William ate yesterday I swear Breakfast Lunch and Dinner... I had to take it away today...

 Then we all went inside to roll our eggs.

 This is the kidos waiting for the egg rolling to start.

 we take this serious... well at least we used to before we had so many kids.. every year it gets a little different... But I must document, I had the winning egg... but Sidney had the most wins this year.

{Sunday}, the boys got to find their baskets and see what the Easter Bunny brought them..

 and the countined to eat more junk all day..

hope everyone had a happy Easter, ours was a lot of fun!

introducing!

Claire Andenell Draper

The newest addition to my sister Tiffany's family. Claire was born at home (on purpose) at 3:55 pm on April 16th. weighing in at 7 lbs. 14 oz. & 20 inches long. mom and baby are doing well!