Lego party coming!

I've spent the last few days getting geared for a girly Lego birthday party. We will be dining on a fabulous square Lego cake covered in marshmallow fondant. Cakes baked so far, waiting to assemble, frost, and coat in fondant tomorrow. I also made Lego marshmallow head pops for party favors, Lego mini figure crayons, and Lego brick candy. It is going to be so fun!! Sydney is turning 8 next week but we will be out of town on her birthday so we planned to have the party ahead of time. She graciously offered to have all her presents ahead of time so the car would overloaded! Grin!

Gotta clean and decorate tomorrow morning!! Her colors are hot pink, purple, and teal! The party is at 4, but we have lots of prep left!

There are so many awesome ideas, so I borrowed from the Lego party blogs and used marshmallow Lego pops, Lego juice box wraps, and a Lego cake. I also snagged the Lego party bags and the Lego typeface banners! Our door wreath was adapted by the girls into just and 8 and we had to scrap the duplo mason jar idea because the store was out of helium! Ack!! Who runs out of helium???

Emily's haircut

We have been trying to sell 13-15" of Emily's hair lately and I think we finally have all our ducks in a row. She gets to keep the money from the sale and will put half aside in savings, pay for the ad, and keep the other half for fun!
We advertised, found a buyer or two, got a good offer, and hopefully they will come through with payment. We videoed the cut, and will sens them proof of haircut and length. The they pay, and we ship.

So the cut process was traumatic, she burst into tears after her ponytail was trimmed. The jagged edges needed a lot of trimming to even out. The tears stopped after awhile, but it was heartbreaking for me. And there was no was to undo it.

She ended with an adorable angled bob made even cuter by the addition of some feathers. Choosing the feather was what stopped her tears! Yes I bribed her. But she looks soo cute!!!

Chalkboard art

I painted a chalkboard in Josh's room about a month ago and just finally got it framed in, still have to paint though:(

The kids have been enjoying all sorts of fun pictures. Today Sydney drew a sea monster attacking the ocean- and Emily made it fart. Yup she must be 10.
When we saw what Emily had done she laughed so hard we thought she might pass out from a lack of oxygen.

2nd Honeymoon- of sorts

Karl and I are lucky enough to have his mother staying with us and watching the kids as we take advantage of his work travel to Hawaii!! On the plane right now!! Pictures will be coming soon!

We spent an awesome two weeks with his mom at the house! I took everyone to Williamsburg last Friday to see some fun colonial history, and we did an bunch of genealogy research together!! I had forgotten how fun that was to do! Plus now I have a better grasp of census reading.

A lesson for Emily

Sadly she learned this morning not make sure he brigs her backpack inside at night. The pouring rain made her backpack a wee bit damp. She of course only realized this as the bus was barreling down the street and she was rushing off to school. Wish she had thought of it say before pouncing in me to get up and make breakfast and then again while she was campaigning for present opening since she needed something to do. Course getting dressed would have been good too say maybe before I did the birthday hairdo. She slept in her clothes so she looked dressed to me:(

It's a fabulous day in the Pilz household this morning!!!

Breakfast Conversation

We were enjoying a yummy pancake breakfast when Karl murmured something to me. I didn't quite catch it, just the beginning bit and the end. I asked him to repeat it saying I only got the last word. He repeated it, nope second to last, nope, finally the third to last was what I heard. I rolled my eyes at him saying he knew what I meant and said "thank you Mr. Anal" as he defended his right to be specific.

Sydney piped up "what's an anal?"
Emily " someone who loves animals"
Karl dissolved into laughter and insisted I post this.

In return he gets to explain the definition of anal.

Belt testing again

Finally!!! We are so thrilled to be testing and getting Em to the next belt color. The schedule depends on your color, and this schedule was horrible for us to attend! Emily has been stressed and excited for the test, but I think she did a great job tonight! I'm so proud of her! And yes tonight I'll charge my camera battery! Sorry!