Dress up fun

One afternoon Annadele wanted to play tea party, and so Sarah thought we should dress up for it. We ended up not playing tea party, but having a fashion show with the misc. stuff in the dress up box. Although for Annadele, this is her purple princess butterfly outfit that she has to wear everyday.
A friend of mine recommended that we check out Fancy Nancy from the library. She said because my girls always look so nice and fancy she thought they would enjoy it. Oh how Annadele is my Nancy. She is only two and 1/2, but we had to do beauty parlor today, and I got to trim and paint her hand and toe nails. I couldn't stop at just her toes, but her hands had to be painted also.

Alex's 1st birthday

Alexandra had her 1st birthday. I can't believe it has already been a year since she was born. Mark really wanted to have a birthday party for her even though we had celebrated it in Utah. He had a work event going on the weekend of her birthday, but we decided we would celebrate it in October. But on her birthday we were invited to another little girls birthday. A co-worker of mine had her little girl Azalea on Sept 23rd and I had Alexandra on Sept 24th. They are one day apart. She invited us to Azalea's birthday party. It was really nice. Thanks to her parents they had it at the M Resort at the studio B buffet. It was really good. Crab legs, shrimp, lots of variety. Rated one of the best buffets in vegas, I found out later. It was fun to see Alex and Z interact with each other. One of their friends even had a daughter Annadele's age. Except for it being nap time, the girls and I had a good time. Mark was even able to make it for the last 20 min., and glad he did.





So last week we gave Alexandra her party on October 8th. It was so funny because if you asked Annadele who the party was for, it was for her. She was very excited. I got the house cleaned up, and I tried to reuse some balloons we had but the place I went doesn't sell the helium separate I would have to rebuy my balloons or buy new ones. I opted for no balloons. It is only her first birthday. She isn't going to rememeber. It was funny because Adele was worried we weren't going to have enough food. I was worried we would have too much. Plus there was no room in the fridge for left overs. She was trying to talk Mark into going and ordering more food an hour before the party. I had already talked him out of only making one pan of ziti instead of two. In the end, I was right. We had plenty of food. The hit was the egg rolls Tony was frying as people were arriving. I think every one had a good time. And people actually showed up. Although I did call everyone we had invited Thursday to find out if they were coming or not, so I knew how much food to prepare for. Annadele still thinks the presents are hers, but I guess that will come with time.