A place where there isn't any troubles...

Have I ever mentioned that there is a Wizard of Oz obsession in our home? Well there is, and I completely forgot to post pictures of the most recent musical that we have attended. A few weeks ago, my mom and I took Zeke and Harper as well as my nephews Carter and Charlie to have a day of Oz fun. Speedway High School (from which I graduated) presented The Wizard of Oz (my favorite musical) and also hosted a Wizard of Oz breakfast! Of course I could not miss a chance to spend a day Wizard of Ozing with my kiddos.

Harper was in her element!





The weekend before the Wizard of Oz fun, we attended Peter Pan at Greenfield-Central High School. The kids had a blast there too and were amazed that Peter could really fly. They were very disappointed, however, that they couldn't even after Peter sprinkled them with pixie dust after the show!

Princess Harper's 3rd Birthday!

On Saturday, we celebrated Princess Harper's 3rd birthday! We started the day by taking our little princess to have her hair done for her birthday party. Our friend, Barb, did such an awesome job! All of Harper's friends and cousins (and even Mama) dressed up like princesses, princes, kings and knights and celebrated in her honor. Harper was such an adorable princess and was so excited about each gift that she opened. Although she wouldn't whack the pinata, all of the other kids had a blast doing so and we all enjoyed watching Harper's face as we sang "Happy Birthday" and she blew out her candles. What a very special day for such a very special girl!

Harper opening all of her gifts


The very special cake that Mama spent all night working on for Princess Harper
Harper with her cake

King Zeke

Harper wouldn't hit the pinata, but she enjoyed watching the other kids smash all of the candy out of it!

The whole gang

The birthday girl getting ready to blow out her 3 candles!

The kids playing with their swords and shields after the party

Princess Tea Party

The night before Harper's Princess birthday party, our arts center held a princess tea party! I thought that was the perfect event to kick off Harper's birthday weekend. We got dressed up and enjoyed an awesome night filled with lots of princess activities. She had her picture taken with some of her favorite princesses, enjoyed a story told by the Fairy Godmother, had her hair glittered and even got her make-up done. She was such a good girl and we had an awesome time together.

Harper and Belle

Harper with Snow White, her favorite princess right now.

Harper getting her hair glittered by Ariel.

Getting her make-up done.

Harper admiring her make-up!

Busy Busy Bees!

It has been over a month since I updated the Zeke and Harper page. That's only because we have been incredibly busy this past month. October came and went in the blink of an eye. It seems like we had something going on each weekend and most weeknights too!

We enjoyed the annual Riley Festival and parade in Greenfield. We finished soccer and football this month and started dance class. We watched the Cougars play in Lucas Oil Stadium. We spent a weekend in Harrison, OH to celebrate the many October birthdays in our family. We visited the pumpkin patch. We celebrated Harper's 3rd birthday with a Princess party! We have already trick-or-treated at G-CHS and are getting pumped for the trick-or-treating yet to come! That was our month in a nutshell.

Zeke and Harper with Charlie Cougar at Lucas Oil Stadium

Harper with Aunt Jill on our hayride for the October birthdays

Landon on the hayride enjoying the beautiful weather

Zeke being a goofball!

Harper's first dance class. She's such a ham and loved watching herself in the mirror!


Harper and our niece, Ava, trick-or-treating at the high school

Spiderman and Snow White with Charlie Cougar

Gap Casting Call

Every year, Gap has a Casting Call contest to find a new little face to model their adorable clothing. The winners receive prizes from photo shoots to gift cards. This year, however, they are also having a Fan Favorite contest. Anyone can visit their website and vote for their favorite little guy and gal. The Fan Favorite winner receives an all expenses paid family vacation! Of course, I would love it if one of my little ones won. If you are interested in voting go to www.gap.com and click on either the GapKids or babyGap tab. Then click on the Gap Casting Call icon on the right. You can pull up my kid's pictures by entering my username moni_holden. You can vote for each of them everyday from now until November 22nd. Please spread the word! Thanks to everyone for voting often!

Art Museum

Last summer, we took the kids to the Indianapolis Museum of Art and took a ton of pictures of them before the weather got too cold. There are so many beautiful places to take photos there and we were really happy with how many good shots we got. So, this past weekend we got the kids all dolled up and headed to the IMA for our photo shoot. Here are some of my favorites!