Remy's First Birthday!

I can't believe that its been a year already! Time goes by so fast when you are busy and with 3 kids, so clearly I've been forgetting to write. I'm sorry.
So we had a super fun birthday party with just a few friends and a ton of balloons. I've realized that kids will be happy if you just have a ton of balloons. Hahahah.

I was just excited to buy baby stuff again! HA. Logan just turned 9 so he's all about video games and whatnot but its fun to shop for Remy.
I was looking at these Gather playmats for him for awhile so I went for it and got one.

 They are so well made! its just a big leather mat that you can fold up and wipe off if you spill something, and Remy usually is throwing his food around. So the mat is amazing, even the big kids play on it. Logan is playing on it as I write this. I also got some really cool handmade wooden toys from Bannor Toys.


They have every state made into a little rattle toy. They are super adorable and Remy loves his.

I also got the boys some personalized chalkboard from Chalk Full of Design to practice their names, Dylan was having some trouble with his "e"s. They are really cute and you can reuse them! They came with a chalkboard pen, so you can just write on the boards and then wipe them off with a baby wipe.
And we alll know that as moms we use baby wipes you clean up just about everything. HA.
So there it is, a month late but still. HAPPY BIRTHDAY REMY!!


XoxOXox 

Steph

Dylan's 6th Birthday

I can't believe it! My little baby is 6!! Ahhhh!! Stop growing, seriously! 

He's smart, sometimes too smart for his own good. Not to mention, he's hilarious.  He's great at climbing things, future mountain climber maybe?! He likes his hair "spiky like a mohawk". He's curious and loves building Legos. I'm so glad I get to spend everyday being this kids mom 😍😍

Today I told him we could go tubing in the creek. So that's what we did. It was a little bit of a mess at first but then we got it! 

Yes. That is Dylan sitting in his tube on top of Matts inflatable swan. Lol. 

 Logan said it was the "best day ever" and he just wanted to sunbathe. Hahahaha. 

Then Dylan finally flopped on his belly and floating the rest of the way. 

Luckily we went on a super short float. I don't think they could of handled anything longer than 40 mins. HA. 

The day has been so much fun. Sometimes I need to take a whole day off work and just relax. I've watch every Indian Jones movie ever made, not by choice, but still! It's been awesome! 

Now to enjoy this amazing cake! 

Clearly Dylan can't wait, he's getting the plates ready! 

XoxoXOxo

Steph

5 Layer Birthday cake!!

So we have a birthday coming up!!! It's my boyfriend Matt's 35th birthday!! 

Wooopwooooop 🎉🎈

So last night me and Dylan decided to make a birthday cake ( Logan was spending the night at my Moms, so I wanted to do something special with Dylan) but when I opened the fridge I didn't have any eggs. Of course. I don't really eat eggs so I never notice when they are low. Well I guess Matt eats a lot of eggs because we were out. 

Luckily my mom lives around the corner. So we walked over and borrowed some eggs. 

Thanks Mom!

On the walk home Dylan hung out with the gingerbread man.

He was so excited because he walks past him everyday for school but he's always "sleeping". 

Then we went home to make the cake. 

It was just a normal box cake mix but I switched out milk for water. 

So I made 5 thin layers of cake. 

Then put the homemaker cream cheese frosting on each layer. 

 

Cream Cheese Frosting 

8 oz cream cheese 

4 oz butter 

5-6 cups of powered sugar 

1/4 teaspoon vanilla 

Mix room temperature cream cheese and butter together. Beat until smooth then add the vanilla. 

Slowly add the powered sugar till everything is fluffy and sweet enough to your taste. 

The picture looks awful because it was like 9 pm when I finished it. HA. 

But it's super delicious and really easy to make. 

XoxoXoxo 

Steph 

Birthday Weekend

This past weekend was my birthday, Friday to be exact and I spent it in Philly with some of my favorite people. On my birthday night one of my best friends, Anthony, and I got dinner at The Continental restaurant. I woke up wanting lobster mac and cheese so I was determined to get it. Haha. 

Anthony and I have known each other since we were about 8 or 9. He lived down the street from me growing up annnnd our birthdays were 4 days apart. We were destined to be friends for life ;)

And almost 20 years ago we had a birthday party together. I'm pretty sure it was a Barbie birthday too. Looking back, I feel kinda bad. HA. 

But almost 20 years later our birthday is a lot different, now we can drink ;)

I mean, who else is gonna take selfies with you outside the bathroom?! Your best friend! That's who!

Gooooooood times :) 

Then Monday morning rolls around and I wake up to Dylan telling me he peed in the bed, that I was sleeping in with him. So I torn off the sheets threw them in the washer and got Logan off for school. Only to get a phone call less than an hour later to come pick him up, he had a mild fever. He has been home from school for the past two day :-/

So reality set in really quick after the birthday weekend. 

XoXOXxo

Stephanie

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Dylan's 3rd Birthday

Wow! What a weekend! I swear 10 months out of the year nobody comes to visit but for the months of June and July, we run a bed and breakfast. Hahaha. I'm not gonna lie, I totally love it :)

I have friends to talk with and they like my cooking! So what's not to love about it!?!

So it was Dylan's 3rd birthday. Yaaay!! I can't believe it. Kids grow too darn fast. And for this little monsters birthday I made a delicious Chocolate Peanutbutter cake. The recipe for it is here and here. I didn't  take pics of the steps, sorry. But here is the end result. 

Delicious :)

We also took the kids to the new 'Monsters University' movie. 

I thought the movie was super cute and I'm pretty sure the kids liked it too. 

A bunch of our friends were staying with us so we cooked some food on the grill and had a great time. 

There was also a music festival going on Saturday and Sunday called Maplewoodstock. They had art vendors and about 25 bands with their headliner being Joan Osbourn. Oh did I mention it was free?!!? And it was only 3 minutes away from my house. You should check it out next year. 

The kids got 'hot face' after about 10 minutes but it was a fun. So another great weekend! 

Annnnnnd I got some super exciting news!!!!!! Buuut you're gonna have to wait till tomorrow. That's right, back to back blog posts! Wooohoooo!!!!

Now have a great Monday :D

XoXOXxo 

Stephanie

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