the characters in the caricature

As you know, I love Legoland. Everything
is made out of Legos -- I mean, how cool is that?!
When Kelly was a baby, like 4 months old even, we went to San Diego and  did the Sea World, Zoo, Wild Animal Park circuit. Even though we had an exhausting fun time doing all of that, we also
went to Legoland.

I never really paid attention to the caricatures they did at the park, I thought they were cute, but never really considered doing one.
Well, Robyn (my mother in law)
decided while we were there in Legoland that she wanted to have one done of the kids --

and it came out SO cute!

I ended up later framing it and hanging it in the hallway.

DJ was/is really into Superman, we used to call Kelly Turtle 

when she was a baby -- and Paige just wanted to be a Mermaid.

So cute!

This last trip to Legoland, we knew that we wanted to have their caricatures done again -- we needed one with Mikey, right? Of course he was going to be a Gorilla...

We had them done, but I wasn't too happy with Mikey's. It was cute -- but it didn't really look like him. So I had another one done.
My father in law had them framed for me as my birthday present and Mike hung them up for me last weekend!

Kelly had to be a Princess, but I had to make sure that her missing bottom teeth showed --

Paige was a Tinkerbell Fairy. I love how her eye color was captured!

DJ was SO happy we let him have blood on his Gladiator sword...

And this one of Mikey came out much better! And even though he isn't a Gorilla, he is wearing Daddy's old jersey number ~

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our Labor Day

Well, actually, we started on Paige's room the weekend before this last Labor Day weekend. She almost has two rooms -- there is the back part with all the windows, kind of a sun room and then the front part. We moved the bed from the back area and changed all the furniture around. We reorganized and re/hung things on the wall.
We turned the back part into a TV watching area --

I think the studio apartment I used to have was only a little bit bigger!

When we realized she'd need more room for books, we headed to Ikea and Mike put these great bookshelves together ~

DJ's room took us a bit longer, or at least it seemed like it...
We had to (once again) clear out a bunch of toys, but we then also decides to rearrange the room a bit.

Here you can see the door that also goes into the back part of Paige's room. Mikey was so happy running between rooms while all of this was going on!