Magic Fest

So this past weekend before the blessing was fun. It was MagicFest here in Twin Falls, something they are trying to make an annual event here. Friday afternoon and all day Saturday they had about 7 magicians at certain places down town doing free shows. Eric worked swing shift so Friday night it was me and the kids-but Brandon had SUCH a great time! It was really fun, his favorite was Kip Sherry-he did some floating money and made a handkerchief disappear-those were his favorite tricks.

He loved him so much-we went and saw him again for free Saturday morning as a family. We basically saw all of the same tricks-but Brandon loved it. Then Saturday night there was a magic show up on stage-and our wonderful neighbors took Brandon because there was NO way I was going to make it-with Eric working. I guess there was more awesome stuff. I'm super glad that he got to go and enjoy it.

Here's a picture of us with Brandon's favorite magician and they are holding their little magic trick-I'll try to teach it to Brandon for the camp out-so he can fool some of you guys!

Then I just thought I'd post a couple other pics (I know the font changed..oh well I don't want to fix it!) I absolutely LOVE this picture of everybody-Eric probably doesn't because he doesn't have a shirt on-but I don't care it's super cute!--he never reads the blog anyway so he won't know I posted it..

A picture of me holding Marie after I got her all ready for church yesterday.

And the boys the other day feeding Marie-Brandon really loves it, and then Tyler just needed a turn-but they're cute.

oops I guess I forgot to flip that one-

Finally

Finally a picture with Marie in it..thanks to Linda we were able to capture a pretty good picture of our clan. (I put the pic in the margin).

Today we blessed Marie-every single thing that she wore was borrowed but she looked super cute. It was special but I don't have to save the dress to give her when she's got her own girls..so it worked out great for me.

It was totally fun having lots of family visiting. It was chaotic-doing last minute linner (you know a mix of lunch and dinner) prep and making room to fit everything on the tables, but it was SO much fun having friends and family to spend the afternoon with.

We missed Kevin & Jessica and their boys..too bad you couldn't make it-but it was sure nice not having to do any traveling!

It was a great, fun filled day-and Marie didn't even cry during her blessing--THANK YOU!

We did some other fun things this weekend-that I'll hopefully get around to posting about..but you'll have to check back later for that.

Happy Birthday-

Happy Birthday To ME! This is the first year I can remember that Eric didn't ask me for a list..and I was thankful because I kept on forgetting my birthday was coming up-there are so many other things like Marie's blessing, camping and vacation I keep thinking about. He did a very awesome job without a list he got things that I've been wanting and it was wonderful he remembered! It's so fun with the boys, they went shopping with him-helped him wrap them, they delivered them to me-they were just super, super excited. Brandon showed me how cool my card was..it was just loads of fun.

I forgot that any birthday is very exciting to them though-I wasn't planning on having cake or ice cream, but they sure were. It was fun-the boys helped decorate the cake it was a very fun to spend some time as a family!

Because I didn't have a list-I was trying to think of something Saturday morning and Brandon and I saw a commercial for the Ice Age 3 game-it looked fun..I told him to tell Daddy as an idea..but oh boy Brandon was very, very excited for it and wouldn't let us forget-so we just got it to get it and Brandon does totally LOVE it. It's the perfect skill level for him-I highly recommend it.

Overall it was a fantastic birthday weekend!