Happy 5th Birthday!

 Today was Owen's 5th birthday.  Oh, the excitement in the house for the past few days, waiting for this day to arrive.  Really, is there anything bigger than turning 5 years old?  and having your birthday fall on your kindergarten day?  and having a party afterschool?  (Do you think the 5 year old was tired by the end of the day?!)

The morning began with opening a few presents from Mom and Dad.  Lego had been on his list and he was VERY excited to see this!

Still one of his favourite things to do is to play with his cars, so a racecar cake was requested.  I had made him one a few years ago, but didn't want to do the same thing again.  So, off to the internet to find a different one.  This is what I found.  I pretty much followed the instructions exactly as they were on the website. 

Then after school, it was party time in the gym.  There were 9 boys from his class and they had a great time playing and eating!

Happy Birthday Owen!  Hope it was a great day for you!

Living Room Wall - Before and After

Once we had our family pictures done, I wanted to do something with them, other than have them sit on the computer or on a disk.  So, I searched a little on-line and found a few sites with ideas on how to display family photos. I had also been wanting to paint the back wall of the living room too and this gave me a reason to.  Actually, I really want to paint the whole house but I don't think that is  project I will undertake by my self!    I decided to paint the back wall the same colour as our entrance.  (I'm cheap and had half a can of paint left!)  Then I chose 8 pictures and developed them into 8x10's, mixing colour and black and white.  I put them in plain standard frames and arranged them on the wall kinda like a puzzle.  I'm happy with how it turned out! 

Before

After



 This is another idea that I tried out.  The pictures are 4x6 size.  This might end up somewhere in the basement as there are probably enough pictures of us upstairs! 

"Happy Trick or Treat!"

And the night of Trick-or-treating is over for another year!  We'll see who they want to be next year!