Nathan's Birthday

There was a lot of hype leading up to Nathan's 3rd birthday.  I'm pretty sure hes been talking about it since his birthday last year so when his birthday actually rolled around he was in heaven.  Nathan's birthday landed on a Thursday and I had to work so he spent the morning with my mom and the afternoon with Matt's mom.  Then we went to Cafe Rio for dinner (his choice) and then let him open his presents from Matt and I.  It was kind of fun to just have a small family party on his actual birthday and Nathan loved it.

To infinity and beyond!

Fire and Rescue (Fireman's Rescue as Nathan calls it)

 

His favorite present was the ninja turtle

We had Nathan's birthday party that following Saturday and our families came again to celebrate with us.  Originally Nathan wanted a Dusty Crophopper party, then it was Ninja Turtles and a week before the party he insisted that it needed to be a Cars party.  Lucky for me because I had saved all the decorations from his cars party two years ago and so I just pulled everything back out.  Matt and I wanted to make the cake and found a tutorial for an awesome cars cake and everything just came together.

My handsome little three year old with his presents

Trying on his Fireman's Rescue shirt

Celebrating Nathan's birthday was so fun because he was so excited about it.  It was all he could talk about and just loved having everyone come over and celebrate with him.  He sang Happy Birthday to himself and blew out the candle all by himself.  Nathan was all smiles all day and I'm glad he had so much fun at his party.  Here's to another year with you kiddo, I love you more every day!

Halloween

Oh Halloween, it is one of my most favorite times of the year.  This year was especially fun because Nathan was so excited about it.  He started talking about what he wanted to dress up as, um probably about six months ago.  It has ranged from Lightning McQueen (so glad he dropped that) to a Ninja Turtle to Jake and the Neverland Pirates.  I was thrilled when he settled on Woody though, he looked so cute all dressed up.  Nathan was pretty upset that we didn't dress Logan up as Buzz Lightyear but he made a darling Tigger none the less.  

I took the kids to Fotofly's Halloween costume pictures and loved the way they turned out.  They aren't perfect and it was pretty painful to get what we got but I love having some decent pictures of the kids in their costumes.  

 I had originally planned on taking Halloween off of work but decided not to when Nathan's daycare planned a Halloween party.  Nathan had a blast!  They let the kids wear their costumes all day and do Halloween crafts, have treats and go trick or treating.  It was darling, I just love having a good daycare that go above and beyond.

That night Matt's parents and Brittany and Bryce came to our house for Chili and cornbread.  Then everyone except for me, Logan and Matt's dad headed out for trick or treating.  I think Logan was thrilled to get to stay home and crawl around instead of stuck in the stroller and it was nice of Dan to keep me company.

Cutest Tigger I have ever seen

Nathan and Luke so antsy to get out and go trick or treating

Photo bombed by Gavin dressed up as a skunk

Such a cute Woody!  

Annie dressed up in her bee costume

After trick or treating.  They couldn't wait to bust into their candy

Pumpkin Patch

Emily, Chase and Matt all went out of town the beginning of October so Brittany, Shawn and I decided to take the kids to our favorite pumpkin patch.  The weather was so warm and the kids (especially Nathan) absolutely loved it!  There was a life size Dusty and Mater there too and Nathan was in Disney heaven.

The pumpkin patch had amazing pumpkins and they were all so stinking cheap.  We let Nathan pick up smaller pumpkins for him and Logan and I picked out medium pumpkins for me and Matt and I only spent $8!  There were two corn mazes to take the kids through as well as tractors for them to sit on and wheel barrows so they could get their own pumpkins.  Such a fun way to start off Fall!

Logan's Birthday Party

 Logan loves Mickey Mouse so of course we decided to do a Mickey Mouse party.  Logan's birthday was on a Saturday so we got to have his party on his actual birthday and it was my first time getting to throw a party at our new house.  It was so fun and I think it turned out really cute.

 I was amazed how  many people came to celebrate Logan with us.  My parents, Brittany and Shawn, Emily, Chase and Paisley, Matt's parents, Christian, Brittany, Bryce, Luke and Gavin all came and it was quite the houseful.  Logan got so excited when we handed him a present and he figured out that he could actually play with it.  He was full of smiles the whole night.

Not quite sure how to get the paper off the present.

 

 My dad and Paisley

Brittany and Logan

 Logan's Mickey Mouse cake that Matt and I made.  The large cake 

was chocolate and the ears were white cake.  It was our first time

making and decorating a birthday cake.

Christian and Nathan.  Nathan was absolutely

dieing to eat the cake.

Logan and his Grandma Shayne

Nathan insisted (as always) that we had to

have the light off to sing Happy Birthday.  Logan

thought it was so funny to have everyone singing

and Nathan helped him blow out the candle.

Birthday boy loving his balloons.

I'm pretty sure Logan took two bites of his cake and then started to cry.

Crazy kid does not like cake or ice-cream  but we all enjoyed it and 

Logan was just as happy with his sippy cup of milk.

It was such a great day celebrating my baby boy.  I can't believe he is one already!