harper is five!

it's true. another dear friend of beckett's turned five and i don't know what to do with myself. these kids are seeming so big to me these days. harper had a princess themed birthday party and i dressed beckett up like prince eric. it was pretty spot on, if i do say so myself. although, i'm not sure if a single child at that party has seen the little mermaid. kids these days. in conclusion, here are lots of pictures. i don't know why, but all the pictures at first are of babies. lonnie didn't just rudely only invite babies to a fifth birthday party though, i promise. happy birthday sweet harper! FIVE looks so good on you and we are so thankful to have a girl like you in our lives!

saige is twenty four!

on saige's real birthday we went to her house and everybody brought one of her favorite foods and we had a weird mixture of disgusting things for dinner. nothing individually was disgusting (except maybe the burger king chicken fries), but it was a strange group of foods to be eating together. we were in charge of bringing taco truck tacos... if you're wondering. 

anyways, that weekend for her birthday party, we went to a beach in seattle and roasted s'mores. since yiayia was here, matt and i got to go kid free and i can't say i hated it. plus, beckett thinks the beach and s'mores are the worst. or maybe not. happy birthday to auntie saige... the time is flying by. it seems like just yesterday i was doing your hair in a million braids to look like dreadlocks for your birthday party because we are the strangest and here you are now all grown up and with zero braids in your hair. and a year away from being a quarter of a century! duh duh duh. next year we'll do a million braids again for sure. 

mackenzie's graduation party

beckett and i attended mackenzie's graduation party which just feels a little bit crazy town because how is she even old enough to be graduating? to be fair, she just turned into a senior three quarters of the way through her junior year, so it did come a bit early. lonnie threw her a lovely graduation party by the kirkland waterfront (where she may or may not have had her very own baby shower years earlier). we are so glad to have known mackenzie all these years and to have watched her grow up into a real life adult. which means i'm a hundred now. whatever. it's cool. "congradulons" kenzie, we are excited for you and what your future holds!

i tried to find a real oldie of mackenzie, but i'm on a new computer with not many of my old photos. i did find this goodie, circa 2008 from a christmas party and a failed gingerbread house attempt. haha. luckily i don't think mackenzie has any plans on becoming like a construction worker.