Saturday, April 30, 2011

Bunnyville

We took advantage of a rare sunny day to enjoy Bunnyville at the zoo. There were games, stage shows, and whisker painting! A good way to celebrate Easter Weekend.









"Bunnies" by the fountain

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Happy Birthday Alyssa!

This year, Alyssa had a birthday party with her friends. Cousin Amber got into the theme with her Jessie shirt!



Auntie Laura came to help.


Alyssa was SO happy her best friend Jessica could come to the party!


Party Guests



Cupcakes made by mom.


Cameron and Madelyn wanted to dress up in brown so they could be "Bullseye". Alyssa is in full Jessie Gear.





Alyssa was up bright and early in her birthday. She got a summer dress with a matching one for her American Girl doll, Lanie.


After the dance recital, we celebrated with the family.


Grandma made the BEST Jessie cake - complete with Jessie on the bed!



Aunt Kathy made her famous cookie cakes. It was quickly devoured the next day by the whole Brown family!





Alyssa got a new summer wardrobe - complete with fancy dresses. Her favorite!

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Dance Recital 2011

March 26, 2011 marked the annual Polish Dance recital. This year was extra special for Madelyn as it was her 5th Anniversary year. Alyssa is just one year behind, and will have her special year in 2012. Where has the time gone?



Cameron is so proud of his sisters...but he's plotting something!



We could have never survived without Grandma's help. Getting two girls dressed and undressed with only one mommy is hard work!



Alyssa and Amber doing the Honeycomb Polka



Madelyn finishing her polka






American dances - Mary Poppins and Shake your Tail-feather.



Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!!









Maddie Shaking her tail-feather!!

We are so proud of the girls!!

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Ice Skating

I suppose I had better get this posted before spring comes - which I hope will be soon! Our family went ice skating before cousin Morgan's birthday. We all had so much fun!



Big girls


Shane got on skates!


Future hockey star!



The Brown's and the Mathew's (I think the Rietz girls were enjoying some hot cocoa)

Monday, February 14, 2011

Helping Daddy and Valentine Cupcakes

The construction zone that was our house is finally complete! We went to IKEA (and drove home in a blizzard!) to get bookcases to match our table under the TV. Cameron made sure to help daddy put it together.






I decided that I wanted to try to make some fondant. We rolled it out and put some hearts on our cupcakes. Cameron rolled out his fondant, and promptly ate it!







Alyssa and Madelyn actually helped and made some hearts.




Thursday, February 3, 2011

Polish Princesses

We had picture night for dance class last week. The girls were beautiful! I can't believe that this is Madelyn's fifth year of dance. I remember taking her to Zajaczek's first dance recital. She was so excited - she wanted to start THAT DAY!


Alysa was SO anxious to start too. She began when she was just 2! This is her fourth year. What a big girl!


All of the Polish dancing girls!


Love my girls!!

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

A little snow...

We are all hunkering down for "snowmageddon 2011" expected tonight, but we had fun in the couple of inches we got last weekend!

Daddy and Cameron in their matching Kromers


Cam shoveling the grass


Alyssa covered in snow daddy shoveled on her :)

Madelyn helping shovel

Building a snow fort in the backyard