April 2026 "Sumo wrestling", high school play, Eden turns 6, Prom

 

Yes, during conference and Easter, KK decided to make herself a "fat suit".

Eventually Eden wanted in on the action too!

Let the wrestling games begin!

Our next door neighbors had a nice Easter party at their house the night before. The kids dyed eggs and decorated cookies.

I had fun doing Blakely's hair for the Wizard of Oz play.

It turns out the Blakely likes getting her hair done. I always thought she didn't like it so I stopped doing her hair consistently for years now...She told me that one of the things she loves about going to Grandma Gretch's house is that she always styles her hair! I feel like I missed out on years of doing fun hair styles on her. We will need to fix this!

It's crazy how much thicker her hair is than her other sisters. She's also super tall so when I try and fix it while she's eating breakfast, I have to stand on a stool so I'm tall enough to reach the top of her head. Haha! 

Flying Monkey!

I decided to help out back stage because I wasn't sure how Eden would behave during the shows. It's a long time for little ones! Turns out that my child was an angel compared to some others. Who would have thought?!?

It was fun to see Blair back stage doing hair and make up on a lot of the actors/actresses. She wasn't happy that I was taking pictures of her but I realized that she's been helping out with the school plays for the last 3 years and I haven't seen her in action! I know secretly she loved it!

Blakely-Emerald City person

Haha! I think that is Blair in the stage wings!

KK and Eden- flying monkeys

I forgot to take pictures of Nathan and me wearing the shirts we found at Walmart. The shirt reads, "It's all fun & games until the flying monkeys attack" It was meant to be because it was a picture of a person getting attacked by 2 flying monkeys!

I meant to add hair to my person and I think it would have been fun to add KK and Eden's names or had them sign their names!

This was Eden's favorite part-getting held by the flying monkey leader (Emily)! Emily definitely had a ton of patience for Eden and many of the little ones. Eden was always super jealous when she wasn't getting all of Emily's attention.

Blakely had fun using AI to make their pictures more fun!

The girls had a lot of fun and are excited for future plays at the high school!

We decided to have Eden's party on her actual birthday! It took me most of the day while they were at school to set up for her party.

Birthday girl!

Blakely and KK had flag football practice (KK was super upset that she couldn't skip practice) so we opened "family" gifts before Eden's friends came over.

I forgot to get pictures of the cupcakes before the party. Oops!

Eden had a blast at her first friend party! She's already planning/scheming for next years party!

I should have taken more pictures of the activities we did...

Blair helped me get all the mermaid ready (face jewels and glitter, star fish hair clips, nail stickers).

They did a relay race in the grass. They had to put on a mermaid tail and "army crawl" across the grass to buckets filled with water beads. They had to dig through them to find specific items and bring them back (star fish, pearls, mermaid tails, sea shells, etc.) I think the girls had fun with this until some were getting rashes from the grass (Eden included) oops!

They also had a mermaid treasure hunt that took them all over the house! They loved all the treasure in the treasure chest (bubbles, necklaces, candy necklaces, rings, ring pops, shell mirrors/brushes, chocolate coins).

Blair got asked to prom by Nolan.

We didn't have much time to find her a dress. We did go dress shopping 5 days before prom (5 different stores) but we didn't really find anything she loved. She decided she was just going to use a skirt I actually wore in high school (haha!) but she wanted a different shirt-not glittery. Do you know how hard it is to find a dressier shirt that is the correct shade of blue and comes in just a couple days?!? I ended up buying 2 online that I thought would work. One wasn't even close shade wise. Luckily the other one was close enough! Look at the last pictures (back of Blair) to see what the back of her shirt looks like.

I'm so glad that Blair decided to do an updo because the rest of the girls were struggling with their hair blowing in their faces.

Blair wanted me to do her hair similar to Julia Stiles' prom hairstyle in 10 things I hate about you.

Blair said she had a fun time!

Haha! reenacting titanic!

Blair and Elora