Stitched with Love

Payton turned 7 on Friday.  They cancelled school (snow day) and her mom told her that it was cancelled just because it was her b-day!  I guess she said, "Really!?" and made a face like, mom, I'm not stupid...hahaha...she figured out that it was not true.  She is super smart!

Shawn went and picked Payton up around 3 and brought her back in the crazy snow storm.  We got ready for the super fun party we were about to have with Sadie and Savannah.  They got to our house around 6 and we started off the night by making our own yummy cheese pizza's, because of course, that's all kids ever like.  Then we moved on to decorating cupcakes and opening presents!  The best part!

There were makeovers and mani-pedi's.  Lucky girls got to rest their feet in a bubbly foot bath!  They then got to decorate their own princess crowns, and the party still was not over!  All the girls bundled up in their jammies and blankets and watched Brave while eating mint chocolate chip ice cream (payton's favorite(we have the same tastes :))) and apparently "the best popcorn they had ever had in their entire lives!"  Hahaha....girls just want to have fun!

The next morning they were like, we were up until 12:18!  I just laughed and told them I was surprised they didn't turn into Zombies!  Then there were waffles and eggs, coloring, and lots of lalaloopsy playing.  The girls did not want to be separated, but alas, Abby came to get them.  Lucky for them, they get to do it all over again and Abby's new house next weekend!

Pre-Party

Happy 7th!!!

Plethora of presents

Making crowns.  Savannah and Payton

Pretty Pretty Princesses.  L-R: Savannah, Payton, Sadie.

I made these (3 day) Confetti Cake Pops for Payton's Party with Shawn's family.   

As for us parents, our weekend turned out to be more frightening than anything else.  Last week Lucas was getting over like a triple threat.  Conjunctivitis, ear infection in the right ear, and a sinus infection.  It happened overnight!  I felt like such a bad parent not being able to tell the signs.  But he seemed like he was just fine.  Anyway, I thought he was over everything. He was being himself again, and then Thursday morning he pointed to his ear and said hurt.  And I thought, well, he is still taking the medicine, it should kill everything.  Later that day he developed a nasty cough.  We looked it up and thought it sounded like croup.  Online it says, there is not much to do about croup except running a humidifier and cracking a window.  So we tried that, but still, did not sleep much.  Every 2 hours we were up with Lucas.  He was just coughing and crying.

Friday morning he was so sad and tried so hard to sleep.  Poor kid!  He cried the entire day and then Saturday morning, after another sleepless night, we took his temp.  It was 104.8.  I was like, ahhhhhh!!!  What is happening!  So we called the doc and went in.  She told us he had another ear infection in his left ear and the flu.  She gave him some stronger meds and just said, try to get him to drink as much as you can.  He hadn't eaten anything or really had anything to drink for a couple of days, so we tried.  Finally, Saturday night, he slept.  All night long.  Woke up happy, and then about 2 hours later was really sad, and really warm once again.  Fevers are a mood killer, and rather scary!

Friday night I just kept thinking, this was not part of the party plan!  But, I have a really sweet husband who told me not to worry and took really good care of the boy.

In all the madness, I was able to sneak away for a couple of hours to spend some time with Lauren and do this...

When will this identity crisis end!?