Friday, March 3, 2017

Esther turns 4

Happy Birthday Esther!

We had a great day on Wednesday, get ready for a lot of pictures....

Grandma did a lot of prep, making new 'Frozen' themed dresses for Esther's dolls


Making Esther a beautiful princess dress, with a rhinestone E on the chest.


And making the most beautiful, and most delicious, Frozen themed cake!



Here is Esther opening her presents first thing in the morning. I took the day off work, so I got to stay home and play.



Oh also grandma got a tiara and shoes to go with Esther's dress.

The little princess, all dressed up.






We set Esther's toys out on the table to decorate for her party.




From me and Andy she got a unicorn book with with matching necklace. A ball. A roll of 'Frozen' duct tape. A couple beanie babies. All good stuff.




Playing with Jon.



Then at 10, we picked up her friend Piper and headed off to Bouncing Bears.









Then we had lunch at Taco King, before I dropped the girls off at Pre-School.




I picked up balloons for the party and went home to decorate.

 Baby Jon got all dressed up.




We made 3 kinds of mac 'n cheese.

All the girls sitting down to eat.

Candles being lit!


 So exciting.














A little dance party after the cake.

Solvej decided that dress was too hard to dance in so she took it off, although Esther to have a mid-evening costume change.




And now her dolls purse matched her dress.

Phew! all in all, a wonderful, fantastic, successful birthday. Happy Birthday sweetheart! I love you!


Jon's bottle


Andy sent me this picture of Jon examining his bottle.

Ski the Beach

Last week we entered a family ski race in Chugiak called 'Ski the Beach'.

I did the 7.5K race, while Esther and Van did the 1.3K race. Andy walked beside Esther in her race carrying Jon.
Van should have done the 3K race, but since he was racing without us, we opted to send him on the shorter one. He was really pleased that he was 'the first kid back' as he told us many times.

I didn't point out to him that the results don't quite agree, but that's ok.

Race Results

Driving to Chugiak

There are no other pictures, since I was racing, I was nervous, so I didn't take any...

LaRae

Grandma LaRae showed me these pictures of when she was a little girl. The best.