Kiddie Magic Show

Every Sat AM there are free kids shows at the Overture Center for the Performing arts. This past Sat I took the kids to see a little magic show. We were joined by our friends Brenna and Braden. Braden is 2 and called the center the Ovary Center! The kids thought the show was great. The parents thought this one was a little hokey.



Waiting for the show to start.



We can't wait!



Brenna's here!



I think it's going to start!



Nope! Let's go up on stage!



It's starting!



Wow!!



Totally cool!

Finally really 6!

Acacia finally officially turned 6 on Thursday and my best friend Kathy turned ... well something more then 6! How cool that they are birthday buddies!! We went to the Nitty Gritty birthday bar. The birthday girls got balloons and birthday mugs with all you can drink kiddie cocktail and .... mountain dew?? I am not really sure what Kathy was drinking! We had a grand dinner and fabulous chocolate cake as a surprise by Kathy's roommate Sabrina! Many thanks for the cake! Remember you can click on a photo to see it bigger.



Look closely. You'll see Acacia's name at the end of the list and Kathy's just a few above it.


Balloon animals ... this is supposed to be a mermaid but Acacia untwisted her legs.


Chris got a reindeer ... and loved it.


Mmmmm! Cake!


Don't try to count the candles. I don't think the correct number were really put on anyway!


The perfect sized ice cream sunday!


Birthday buddies ROCK!

Acacia's 6 Year Birthday Party

Today we woke up to more snow so we decided to go bowling! Well, sort of. Acacia's birthday party was at the bowling lanes. This is her first non Madtown Twisters birthday and it was a success! All I had to do was make the cake! This year Acacia selected the gum ball machine cake. This looked to be pretty easy until the search for gum balls ended with dumping $5 into an actual gum ball machine to get the big colored gum balls out. So, here are the photos from the grand event. Click the link to see all the photos from the party. One good thing about bowling photos is that you don't have to worry too much about dealing with red eye.

Acacia turns 6!!!



Gum ball cake



The gang's all here ...

Skiing and Sledding '07

Acacia and I had Martin Luther King Jr. Day off so we decided to go skiing. Dad decided to join us. It was the first snow we got pretty much all year and it snowed the entire time we were skiing. We all got to try out our new skies and a great time was had by all! Then, we joined up with Chris' friend Alex (Superman from the Trick or Treat entry) and Alex's dad, Matt and went sledding. Randy took my old skies and mounted them to the bottom of one of our sleds. We had the sled of death complete with no breaks! Again, a great time prevailed!


All dressed and ready to go!


On the chair lift!


At the top! It sure is cold and windy!


All ready for sledding!


Making the big trek up the mountain!

This is Matt and Alex, Randy, Chris and Acacia at the top of the sledding hill.

This is the same but mom got in the shot!


This is Alex and his super fast snow tube!

Acacia got wiped out by other people coming down the hill ... a couple times. The best time was when mom and Chris took her out!


Chris was pretty wiped out by the end of the event. All I did was poke his chest and ...


this happened!

Everyone got their second wind when they discovered this baby hill.



Just a little movie clip of the second wind the kids got.



And another one.


King of the hill.


Matt was pretty beat after lugging the sleds up the hill with the kids in them a few times.

Mom, Acacia and Chris are kings of the hill now!

Here we all are. Ready to go to lunch!

Ice Skating

Can you believe it's January in Wisconsin and all our ski areas are closed? The temps have been in the 40's and even reaching the 50's. We had planned a family ski week end for this week end but we had to cancel. Soooooo - we went ice skating. The Kaji's joined us and everyone had a great time. Ellie and Ethan stole the show with their laps around the ice hand in hand. Way too cute!! Unfortunately I did not get a photo of that. Watching the Zamboni was also a huge hit.