Alia's Party...

Yesterday we celebrated Alia's 2nd birthday!!  She was so excited to have a day that revolved around her.  All day, even after all our guests were gone, she was beaming from ear to ear.  Wade had a bit of a rough time with all the attention that she got, but overall he was pretty excited about the gifts she received.  He thinks they are his :)  Alia will be 2 on March 15th.  It's been a wonderful two years with this little girl.  She has a lot of personality and we love her bunches.

Alia's first present opening!

Time for pizza!

More presents...with Wade helping :)

Pretty hair accessories!!

Time for cake!

Alia's new place to get pretty!

And her new kitchen for her room....I think it's time to declutter a bit!

The pink "gator" as she likes to call it. 

And a second helping of cake..why not, it's my birthday!

So the girl got a little spoiled for her birthday.  :)  And now, I will continue to get her room reorganized and transformed into an official girls room where she can keep all this new stuff! 

A special thank you to our family who came to help celebrate Alia's special day.   

Ketchup Time

It's time to "ketchup" with what's been going on at the Zimmerman's.  We've been awfully busy since last Thursday and finally today I've had a chance to breathe!  Saturday we went to a movie and out with some friends for the night.  I wasn't very camera happy that night, so here's me almost dropping the cake that Leigh brought for us!   

     

   Sunday we had to go get the kids in Ames and then spent Sunday just trying to stay awake and do a few things around the house.  Clint and Alia did find some time to do this...all while Wade was sleeping. It's best he didn't know about it :)

 We also watched the Super Bowl (well I watched some of it) and then it was Monday.  I had a great birthday that involved all of this:



Flowers and Balloons at work




Birthday Cake!!!





Wishes :)



The kids trying to steal my wishes :)





And today Wade started session three of swimming lessons.  His usual teacher was out sick which meant there was a sub and he started with a few tears, but he quickly got over it and was scooping and kicking in no time. 

So, that's what we've been doing...hope you have a great week!

Happy Birthday #3!



Today is Clint's birthday so the kids and I did what we could to make it special.  I baked muffins in the morning (mostly because I was unprepared due to the snow storm this week) which the kids refused to eat. 



And then we had to scurry around for gifts, cake, signs, etc. the rest of the day.  Then we anxiously waited for Clint to come home:

And finally time for dinner and, most importantly, cake!!!



Happy Birthday Clint!  You are a wonderful husband and dad!!!

On Snowy Days we......

Play here:

 

And here:

And do this:



And this:

And finally, I give up and we do this:

Movie Day!!!

I am not complaining, I would much rather be inside on these snowy, cold days then having to be out running around.  However, it gets a little tricky when the kids start getting cabin fever :)  Luckily, we did get to swimming lessons Tuesday morning for Wade's final class of this session.  He has improved so much!  He even used the kick bar to float around by himself.  It's amazing to see him develop self-confidence in the water.  And here's his report card.  He still has to stay in the same class, but I think that's probably normal at 3 years old. 



Good Job Wade!



We're Gonna Party Like It's Your Birthday....

Because January and February are filled with birthdays, we had another fun night out celebrating some.  It's rare that we get out much and to have gone two nights in a row, whew, is a lot of excitement for us.  Thanks to Grandma and Grandpa for letting the kids spend the night with them so we could have some fun with our friends! 

We started the night at the Iowa Energy game where Jenny's Superstars performed.  I have never been to an Energy game and the game itself, well, it was OK.  But it was still fun..something different to do.  After that we met up with some friends at some downtown establishments and had some fun.  There is a reason we  don't do that very often :)

Our group...it was fun!

I imposed on Jenny's Birthday celebration...I don't think I'll make it out again for a long time!!! 

SURPRISE!!!!

There was a surprise party brewing up last night...and it happened!  Last night we went to celebrate (a bit early) Leigh's birthday with a surprise party that Shawn planned.  I must say, he did a good job and she was very surprised!  Her reaction was priceless...you know the, what..wait..I know that person...oh and that person...oh $!@(*&($&!  It was great!  And even more surprising for her was that her Mom and Brother made the 8 hour drive from Minnesota to be there too!!  She saw them last (after standing in front of them for about 2 minutes) and was even more surprised!  I must say, I love surprises! 

I am still trying to figure out my new camera so most of my pictures turned out bad.  Hmm, maybe I should read the directions sometime.  Anyways, here's a few. 

We wish Leigh a very Happy Birthday!!!!

Painted Toenails

Miss Alia let me paint her toenails the other day and she was pretty excited to show them off.  She was very interested when I was taking polish off my nails and I was impressed she sat still long enough for me to paint them!  They will probably be pink the rest of the winter..not sure she will let me take it off :) 

Also, yesterday we got to play outside finally!  The kids had to be all bundled up still especially since they have to walk through every inch of snow around, but they had a good time.  I managed to get my van vacuumed out too! 

Here's another funny picture I found.  Alia eating her muffins, having juice and most importantly, sitting with her Tinkerbell light. She loves that thing!

And last, last night we attended Wade's "conferences" at school.  Apparently he's a pretty good kid.  That's always nice to hear that your hard work in raising good kids is paying off...so far anyways :)  We are proud of him and all the good comments he received from his teacher!

Have a great day!  We're off to play with some friends today!