Team Lucy Bug!

You KNOW you want to be a part of this cool team!!

Salt Lake March for Babies event is in 5 weeks! Saturday May 14 at This is the Place Heritage Park. The walk starts at 10:00 am. After the walk the train will be running for free rides and there will be many other activities for kids. Or if you have a busy Saturday you can make a quick loop around and do the march with us and then be on your merry way!

If you are interested in joining our team you can register HERE or if you'd rather not register just leave me a comment, email, text letting me know if you will be able to show up and support our team.

You can also click HERE to make a donation to our team - $5. makes a difference and is greatly appreciated!

In just 4 weeks we will be having our 2nd annual Team Lucy Bug! Bake Sale!

Saturday May 7, 10:00 am

On the corner of 1300 South and 1830 East

cakes, cookies, cupcakes, pies, bars, candy and other sweet treats!

Including a 'Lucy lemonade stand'!!

If you are interested in providing a sweet treat for the bake sale please let me know asap!

(Ferguson girls - we want your treats!)

Send me a message with what you'd like to make and how many you will be able to provide.

Kim and Alisa are doing an amazing job running our bake sale and need to know what we will be selling so they can prepare tags & pricing now so leading up the the bake sale they can just bake! Please know anything you plan to bake can be picked up by me a day or two before the sale - no need to worry about getting it to us.

And if you're like me, better at picking up baked goods instead of baking them, PLEASE plan on stopping by May 7 for the most unbelievable display of goodies!!

With all proceeds going to a great cause.

Thank you.

(and thank you to everyone who has donated, registered or has let me know they will be supporting us and Team Lucy Bug! - we love you so much!)

my four year old!

After the little bug party with Lucy's friends I gave into her endless requests for a Tangled party. On Wednesday March 30 we celebrated our sweet little miracle's fourth birthday! Unfortunately Lucy was struggling with a yucky cold but once the family party started she was able to enjoy herself.

Rapunzel and her locks all over the cake - you'd think the idea of this might disgust me enough not to eat it but no - Dick's Market cakes are the best.

It was a small gathering with gammy & poppa, Caitlin & Brinton, Coleman & Calah and Lucy's great-grandma 'Nani' - after the gifts inside mommy & daddy took Luce outside for her 'big' gift!

Her reaction...squatting?

And then a run in her wings and rain boots to her new playhouse!

When I first saw this in the store I kind of started to cry. I wanted this more than Lucy - because I've wanted one for almost thirty years!

Blake and his brother Brad put this all together in only one Saturday afternoon. Once the weather settles down we have BIG plans and Lucy's going to have a third of our back yard to herself!

We hope you had a wonderful birthday baby -

we love you so, so, so, so much!

Thank you for being ours.

ladybug bash

On Saturday our 'buggy' had her ladybug party with all her little friends --

and I do believe it was a success!

We met at the Sprout House at Red Butte Garden and started with smocks and painting pots.

ladybug balloons

ladybug earrings

followed by a lesson in ladybugs

then the hunt was on for aphids in the garden

8 of our bug friends - 3 must have been exploring

once the aphids were found and pots were dry it was time to plant

present time!

and as each present was opened the kids moved in closer and closer!

So cute to see all of them so excited for Lucy to open her gifts.

My favorite part of the party was seeing all of the kids in their ladybug masks! All through the garden little ladybug faces would pop up.

I just have to say...this group of kids was so fun to be around. Without siblings, cousins or school Lucy has met most of her friends through our friends. And these are the most adorable, funny, smart little kids. It was such a joy to see them all play so well together and I just love all of them. Blake and I are lucky to have some really great friends and now Lucy is just as lucky.

a happy, happy girl who has some lovely 'bug' friends!

tea time

Last Sunday my mom invited Caitlin, Lucy and me to Afternoon Tea at Grand America for our March birthdays - and it was grand!

Lucy held onto her invitation all week asking if we would

- have pink tea

- use spoons

- use sugar

- have tiny cakes

and lucky for Lucy she got to do all of that and more!

Caitlin got all three of us sweet little gifts for the occasion.

We opted for the couch seating instead of the normal tables so Lucy could be within reach of everything and pick her own items (only two broken glasses!). We started off with fruit, crackers and cheese, choice of tea and champagne (only for Lucy and me). Next was mini sandwiches and scones with fruit spreads and cream.

We pretty much devoured the three tiered tray and it was little awkward when the waitress asked if we were finished...and all that was left was a lone green olive slice and crumbs.

Maybe at tea you're supposed to leave a little on the plate...

or not!

The dessert tray came next and it was delicious! We were seated right next to a harpist and Lucy was thrilled. She kept saying "oh I love this song."

After tea we had to check out La Bonne Vie Patisserie - we wished we lived there!

Very appropriate birthday hats everyone should have.

It was such a fun afternoon, thanks mom!

the birthday bowl

I'm not sure what the best part was of Caitlin's bowling birthday bash:

- finding out my parents haven't bowled in 40! years

- the pizza factory bread torches

- 3 of us talking about past back issues and all secretly hoping for no injuries

- watching Lucy's dramatic sing and dance routine when Justin B.'s "Baby" came on

- knowing that we only were playing one game

We really had such a fun night and I think some of us might opt to start picking activities for our birthdays instead of my snoozer senior citizen birthday breakfast at little america.

(Coleman was up to bowl during this pic and Blake disappears when I have my camera)

Happy birthday - bash sister!