It's All About The Bunny Ears

As you know, I am way behind on blogging! So I am going to be posting some things that happened to us awhile ago.
Here goes...

 The Easter Bunny came to our house and brought some goodies for the girls.

Another sign that our girls are growing up...Not very many toys any more. Just movies and lots of candy.

As usual...The three youngest girls were up at the crack of dawn to check out the loot. They had to wake up big sis, Haley because they felt she was missing out. 

 He brought Pop Rocks! That's right, at 7:30am the girls were beginning their sugar high and you better believe they kept it going all.day.long.

 I put cheddar bunnies and jelly beans in bowls on the table for snacks while waiting for brunch. Payton bit the jelly beans and stuck them to the cheddar bunnies to make motorcycle riding bunnies! haha! Love it!

 I put out a basket of bunny ears and surprisingly the adults were the first to grab them and put them on. Baby sis, Xuan, wore them all day!

      My big sis, Robin, sported them for most the day too!

We didn't get around to painting eggs until Easter morning.

For $5 at Target, I bought an egg spinner that gives the eggs a tie dye look. The kids really enjoyed spinning it! 

It was a little messy, but lots of fun! 

Mushu and Chloe= Not love forever. She barely tolerates him! haha!
(p.s. Proof that Haley even wore the ears!)

Robin made the cutest "birds nests" out of fried chow mien noodles and Peanut Butter, then gave the kids jelly beans and other treats to use as "eggs" in the nest. 

Goo-Goo Xuan decided she needed to get her nails done, and she invited the girls! She got Mani's and Pedi's for all four of them!

(Haley's nails)

This was such a special and exciting treat because Haley was the only one who had ever gone so the three youngest were over the moon with happiness!

(Kaylin's)

(Emma's)

(Payton's)

 When it was all said and done, Linh  and Xuan did some serious online dress shopping. They both have weddings in the near future, and we are super excited!

Donuts and Meerkats

Have you ever tried a maple bar donut with bacon?

Well if you haven't, you are totally missing out! I had to get some for our California guests to try.

My absolute fave is the bavarian cream, though. Head on down to Frost Donuts in the Mill Creek Town Center, and get yourself some! The salted caramel is delish, too.

              Srsly, you will not be dissapointed with Frost Donuts! 

After our donuts, we headed to the zoo!

The gang!

 There is a new entrance at the zoo right by the penguins. The north entrance and west entrance combined and are no more.

 The girls and I were super excited to finally see the Meerkats! I was a little surprised at how small the exhibit was, but they sure are adorable. Have you ever seen Meerkat Manor? It's a great show!

We always enjoy the Komodo Dragons, too!

The girls have to climb this statue every time we pass it!

It's been awhile since we have seen this guy. He was walking around looking for food. Apparently, the lady that feeds him works in this office.

We all gathered around to see him.

 He didn't like that, so he blew up his tale! The lady came out yelling at us all to get back because he might charge us! It was crazy the way she was yelling at this bird, like he was a 2 yr old  kid.

After the zoo we hit up Red Mill Burgers! (Don't worry, we didn't use our cell phones and get yelled at like someone I know!).

Growing up too fast!

Our youngest is 5. ::sigh::
She will start kindergarten in the fall. (big, big) ::sigh::

Her Daddy and I are trying to deal with the fact that we don't hear little pitter patter feet shuffling on the floor. 

It is bittersweet for us. We want her to grow up and be the independent girl that she wants to be, but we really miss having a little snugly baby to carry in our arms.

For her special day, we headed to the Pacific Science Center. It was a cold, wet, and yucky day, so that is where everyone with kids in Seattle headed. It was crowded, but we had a good time. More importantly, she had a really good time!

The G6 joined us along with their Auntie Darb and Uncle O (It was on a Friday, so David had to work :[  ).

We saw a bit of a magic show, played in the salt water (the kids touched sea anemone's and hermit crabs), checked out bug world and visited the butterfly exhibit (check out the huge butterfly that landed on Dao's back!), looked at the (very ugly) naked mole rats, and played with water (both indoors and outside in the cold).

I love the noise that we bring with us everywhere that we go! We were practically the only ones crazy enough to be outside in the freezing cold wind!

For her party, we had our family and close friends over for a Lego party. Pay's favorite thing in the world right now is Lego's, so she chose the theme! The weather wasn't the best, but the kids did play outside on the swing set and trampoline for a bit.

We had the kids build their own pizza's and of course they enjoyed that and ate them right up. Dao "built" pizza's for the adults. He made all different kinds, from BBQ chicken, to meat lovers, and even a cream based one with chicken and bacon. They were all super yummy!

Dao and the girls spent all morning of the party sorting Lego's at the Lego table. We didn't even play any planned games because the kids sat at the Lego table building almost the entire time!

You'll notice in the pics that some of the kids are tied up in streamers. Umm... I kinda left the party streamers out and Goo Goo (Auntie) B decided it would be fun to tie up the kids, and do pretty bows in their hair, and weave it in their toes. Ha! The kids loved it!

Thank you everyone for celebrating Payton with us! ♥♥♥♥

Kaylin's Big Weekend!

Another one of our babies is growing up way to fast!

Here's our little Kaylin at 5 months old. She had the roundest and cutest little cheeks in the world!

Here she is now at 9 years old. (Her Daddy drew a picture of her favorite star wars character, Yoda.)

For her 9th birthday, she wanted to have a slumber party. She invited 5 of her closest friends and they were all able to come. Her Daddy made these light sabers out of swimming noodles (we got the idea here) and the girls loved them! We played outside with the them while waiting for everyone to show up. As usual, hubs got way into it!

The girls basically ran around the house, chasing each other with the light sabers until it was dinner time. They were giggling non stop!

For dinner, we had them make their own pizza's on pita bread. They seemed to really enjoy this. We put out Trader Joe's pizza sauce, mozzarella cheese, pepperoni and pineapple. We did offer olives and mushrooms,

but there were no takers.

She requested a light saber cupcake, cake. This was one of the easiest "cake's" that I have ever done! The idea came from here, but Kaylin wanted to use mini cupcakes for a handle.

Yoda mustaches!

My good friend Sheree, from the G6, does a very special popcorn "surprise" for kids when they sleepover at her house. I thought it would be fun for the girls, so I copied her and passed them out during the late night movie.

I think she was getting a little tired of me sneaking up and taking pictures. Ha! Too bad!

Breakfast for the tired girls was pancakes (with strawberry and regular syrup), bacon, scrambled eggs, and fresh strawberries. We couldn't believe how many pancakes these girls ate!

The birthday girl and her besties! She had a blast!

A very special Thank You to the G6 for taking the little sisters for a sleepover so that Kaylin could have this night for just her and her friends!

Next was her family and family friends party. Her grandma's, aunties, cousins, and the H5 all came to celebrate (the G6 were celebrating their grandma Kim's birthday and couldn't make it).

Spotlight on Kaylin while she opened her presents.

Pay and cousin Livi were ready to start playing with Kaylin's new toys! (Goo Goo B is giving Livi bunny ears)

Grandma made jello jigglers and we used our "K" cookie cutter to cut them.

Haley spent the night at Auntie Robin's and they made this delicious berry trifle. We also had cherry pie, vanilla ice cream, and whip cream. Yummy!

Thanks everyone for celebrating Kaylin with us!

The next day was Monday and her actual birthday. Daddy surprised Kaylin and took the day off, so we thought, "why not let the girls take the day off too?". The girls spent the morning coloring and painting with Daddy.

For the afternoon, Kaylin wanted to head to the Lego store and use her gift card that she got from Grandma. She of course got more Lego Star Wars figurines. Thanks Grandma!

Her younger sisters had money from Chinese New Year, so they all spent about an hour building their own Lego people. This was so much fun!

We had a coupon for a free small cup of Lego's, so we all grabbed Lego's from the bins and handed them to Daddy.

He spent almost an hour packing down and filling every little space in the container. The workers were definitely impressed with what he fit into it!

For her birthday, day, she wanted Lemon Meringue pie. This cracks me up, because normally she does not like lemon stuff, but it's what she wanted, and she ate it up!

Happy Birthday Kaylin! We love you!