Tatum's 7th Birthday!!!

So my baby is 7!!!  UGH!!!  She just keeps growing up on me!

Well, she was insistent on having a birthday party this year--believe me, I tried REALLY hard to get her to take the $100:)  And she wanted it to be a Halloween party.  Her birthday always fall right at break so I never know how many kids will be in town.  I definitely did not expect this many kids, but we sure had a scary/great time!

Max & Ethan took it upon themselves to scare all the guests as they arrived at the party.  They are both obsessed with 80s horror movies at the moment--I blame my husband for that--Max is "Freddy Cougar" from "Nightmare on Elm Street" and Ethan is "Jason" from "Halloween."

The "Vampire Queen"

The Terrible Three!

We made super cute eyeball frames:

Tatum's favorite thing--crafting:)

Played some fun games--that the boys ran:)

 MUMMY WRAP:

The cute cupcakes

The Birthday Girl in the Birthday Crown!

It has been an unusually rainy year this year in AZ.  We saw a storm coming in so we quickly ran outside and took a group picture before it started POURING RAIN!

But luckily it only rained the last 15 minutes of the party so we entertained with some Halloween cartoons!

Happy 7th Birthday to my Tatum Jane!  We love you ohh soo much!  You make our family complete!

Band/Orchestra Kids!!!

With my kids going Heritage, they are required to take a fine art every semester--band, orchestra, drama, choir, or dance.  Well since my kids are not allowed to do choir (old deep-rooted feelings from my own high school days--haha:) they have to do band or orchestra.

Ethan has been playing the trombone this year.  I have been very "hands off" about this instrument because I've been so "hands on" with his piano.  So I figured this poor kid could use a break from me.  Well, he's doing AMAZING and is really enjoying being in band.  Seriously SUPER proud of this kid!  And Carlie of course continues to be amazing as ever on the oboe!  She taking this year off from musicals to really focus in on this instrument.  She is even learning to make the reeds right now:)  Super proud of this girl too.

So here are my awesome kiddos for their first concert this past Friday--September 26, 2014.

Suessical Jr.

Max was just recently cast in Actor Youth Theatre's production of "Suessical Jr."  He was cast as "the black-bottomed eagle named Vlad Vladikoff!"  (The bad guy that works with the Wickershim Brothers to steal the clover away from Horton the Elephant:)

Max has ALWAYS LOVED being the bad guy!  Ever since he was little, he always liked being the "Black Spiderman," the monster, the kid who was "it" or had "cooties" so he could not have been more perfectly cast for this role!  He was in heaven and it was his most favorite play ever!  

He only had one line in this play but he put his whole heart into it!  The Wickershim Brother sang, "Well just to make sure, we're handing it off, to a black-bottomed eagle named…"  then Max jumped out to say "VALD VLADIKOFF!!!  AHAAHAAHAAA!!!" then he coughed like he was choking on something.  Seriously brought tears of joy to my eyes every time I saw it--I was just SOO proud of him!

Max LOVED LOVED LOVED his costume!!!

The Wickershim Brother were his
BEST friends throughout this show.

The costumes in this show were AMAZING:)

The stage!

The COOLEST mohawk EVER!!!

Jojo and Vlad

BAD GUYS RULE!!!

So Max loved every single minute of every single rehearsal and was super sad when it was all over.  We are sure proud of our little "bad" guy.  This was such a great experience for him and he can't wait until his next play.  WE LOVE YOU VLAD:)