Aunt Mary and Uncle Ben are having a boy!

I hope Mary doesn't mind me stealing this picture of her off of her family website. It's just that they are so far away, and we probably won't get to see her while she's pregnant. Mary is my brother Ben's wife. We're very excited for them to be having a baby boy. Another boy to carry on the McGiffin name. I just realized that my kids have only 2 girl cousins of all the cousins we have between the Roses and McGiffins. ... Anyway, congratulations Ben and Mary!!!

6 Months old and crawling!!

William turned 6 months old yesterday. He is just starting to crawl. He likes to get up on all fours and rock back and forth. Today he started actually moving his knees forward to push himself forward. Once he moves himself forward though, he plops down on his little chest and throws his arms out at the sides. Then he gets up again and pushes himself forward with his legs again. It's not quite crawling, but almost, and very cute.

Bugs and Butterfly Party

We had a party for Sarah's birthday on Saturday. She wanted a "Bugs and Butterfly Birthday". We made the invitations last week and gave them to everyone in the class. Since it was memorial Day weekend, only 4 could come from the class, but we also invited a family from church that has 6 kids plus one on the way. So it was a nice sized party.

The first activity I had planned was to let the kids decorate cupcakes however they wanted.

Then, we pretended that some of the kids were caterpillars and we wrapped them up in toilet paper like a cacoon.

Then we had a "bug hunt" on the trampoline where I had put toy bugs in balloons and blew them up . I filled the trampoline with balloons (We have an enclosed trampoline, so the balloons didn't blow away). The kids had to bounce around on the trampoline and find the balloons with bugs in them, then pop them. They loved that, but it was soooo hot that the balloons were popping on their own every few minutes.

Lastly, we had a pinata with tons of candy.

Marshmallow spiders made out of toasted coconut marshmallows and crunchy chowmein noodles.

Gummy worms in apples.

Girls Night

Sarah's 7th Birthday was on Friday. It was also the last day of school, and the day of the Stake Father and son campout. So, Tom and Alan went to the Father and son campout while Sarah and Kaitlyn and I had a girls night. We did our nails, put on play make-up and watched "The Princess Diaries". (William stayed with the girls, but slept most of the time) It's the first time we ever had a girls night, and they loved it!! We even had popcorn and ice cream sundaes. It was alot of fun.