Sophie's Dinosaur Birthday Party

Sophie's birthday fell on a Monday this year so we had her party on the Saturday before (September 29).  It was a lot of fun and we had been planning it for a few months!  We had a dinosaur theme and some bounce-houses.  We kept Sophs inside until about an hour before and when we took her out she was SO EXCITED to see everything all set up!  She loves the Kangaroo Zoo and so I knew she would love having bounce houses.

I loved finding cute dinosaur themed foods.  We had "Tree Trunks" (brownies cut like a tree trunk), Dino Claws (Bugles filled with peanut butter and dipped into green chocolate), Dinosaur track cookies (sugar cookies with little dino footprints in them), Dino Dig Jellies (Layered Jello with a little dino bone in the layers), Dino Twigs (Pretzel sticks), Fruit-A-Saurus (fruit chunks), Molten Lava Cakes (chocolate cupcakes with red lava coming out), and Dino droppings (no-bake granola balls).

It was fun to have everything to make a dinosaur desert bar; I wish I would have gotten more pictures of the food table.  We made it easy on me and just ordered some pizzas for everyone.  We didn't have a cake but had some frosted cupcakes with the cutest little dinosaur cupcake liners.

We loved having our friends over to the party and it was so much fun to see everyone.  Sophie was so happy the whole time and loved all the action!  She loves dinosaurs and this was the perfect party theme for her this year!

We have such cute Grandma's!  We had dinosaur masks for everyone.  I also (what was I thinking) made a billion Dinosaur feet for everyone too!

 I even made some big feet for the big kids!

We had a few different activities for her party.  We had a fun bounce house and a bounce-house slide for the kids.  It was fun to see everyone play and all the energy the kids had!  It was great weather.

One of the big hits was the "Dinosaur Dig"  I had little shovels, rakes, buckets, and brushes and the kids were able to dig around for dinosaurs!  I think this was probably a favorite activity.

We have such sweet friends and neighbors.  Thank you everyone for coming!  It was a blast!

We had a "Build your Own Dinosaur" craft table with lots of paper dinosaurs, glitter glue, and embellishments for everyone's dinosaur.  Sophie loved going around checking everything out and was quite the social butterfly.  I loved it.

We also had a dinosaur volcano!  I was going to do the kind that explodes but thought it mights not be a great idea with so many little ones, so we did a more gentle volcano!  Preston and Ro were the volcano guys!  We did two... it as fun to watch. 

Sophie was so blessed and so lucky to get so many cool birthday gifts.  Thank you again to everyone who came and made this birthday special!  

We love you Sophie!  Happy Third Birthday!

Date Night: Ghost Tour

Our date night this month was from a groupon I got back in February.  It was for a ghost tour in Salt Lake City.  We were actually running late and weren't sure if we would even make it in time - especially because parking in Salt Lake can be difficult.  We left right when Kale got home and met our friends, Drew and Mary in Salt Lake.  We got on the tour bus and were trying not to laugh too much at our very good actors (aka tour guides).

I will say that this date night was very different and so it was fun.  The tour was pretty cheesy and I felt that the guides kept making Jabs at "Mormons" throughout the tour.  Of course, we were the only LDS members (I can only assume) and everyone else would laugh or have something else to say - and sometimes the things they were saying were more of a stereotype instead of factual.  I ALMOST said something about it but didn't.  So besides that kind of bothering me, the tour was really fun.  It would drive to different locations and we'd get out and walk around the building (unfortunately we couldn't really go inside anywhere).  The tour guides would tell us stories about the buildings and how they were haunted, ect.  After the tour Drew and Mary treated us to a caramel apple from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory and it was DELICIOUS!  Thank you guys!

September Photo Check-In

We are still waiting to do two different fun dates!  Where does time go... why does it seem that Fall/Winter has so much more time to do things?  At least it's been a really fun summer.

Sophie loves to paint and color.  That is my go-to activity when I'm also working on a project.  She is such a sweet girl.

In August we had her cousins come over and have a sleepover.  It was a big hit and everyone had so much fun.  We played at the park, visited the dinosaur park, and went swimming. 

The girls were such great helpers and Sophie was entertained the entire time.  She is getting so big.  She loves to sing and play and be around other kids.

Here is a link to a super-cute video of them on the tire swing:

http://youtu.be/AMZXOA5llqw

Sophie loves the pool in North Ogden and was excited to show the cousins how much fun it was!  

She was cracking me up because she kept hugging Eva!  

Sophie my little fish.

Later in August we had a family wedding in Rock Springs.  It was neat to see all the family together and we got to meet some extended family visiting from France (they only spoke French!).  Sophie really warmed up to her Grandpa too!  It was so much fun.  I had to work early the next day so we had to leave pretty early but I hear the party really got started once we left.

At the park where the wedding was held, there was a big playground.  It was for older kids but Sophie got help from her Daddy and cousins to get up and go on the slide.

At the end of August we went to Lagoon to celebrate a birthday.  Sophie hadn't been much this summer (last year we had season passes) so she was loving it!  We got to go on a ton of rides and she was tall enough to go on more rides than last summer.  They had a blast.

We talked Grandpa Mark into watching the three girls so we could go on some 'big kid' rides.  He was regretting it when he realized how sick he was!  Poor fella.  At least the girls had fun.  

Earlier in the summer we went with our Friend Emery to the splash pad.  It was fun but Sophie doesn't stay entertained as long as I wish she would there.

How lucky are we to have so many fun parks around!  Sophie is such a big girl and this summer she can swing on a big-kid swing and hold on tight!  She is growing up so fast.

She's got a few favorite foods: popcorn, "treats," chips, and ice cream!  This girl loves Ice Cream!

She is so sweet.  We play outside.  I was spraying out the garage and she brought me this bouquet of flowers.  I laughed!

She loves talking to her Bettolo Grandparents on Face-time.  She thinks its so cool!