Showing posts with label Birthdays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Birthdays. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Happy 4th Birthday Kaleb!!

How is it possible that this tiny little baby is 4?!?

We had so much fun celebrating with Kaleb this year!  He is old enough that there was a decent amount of build up to the gifts he was going to get and he was SO excited! 
 Waking up to Mommy and Daddy singing to him.  

Kaleb loved opening his gifts!  Daddy picked out a Thor card that made noise.  To Kaleb, a card that makes noise is basically another gift :).

Kaleb got a couple smaller gifts and a ball of yarn.  I think he was a little bit confused at first but once we told him what to do with it, he got excited. 

Following his yarn around the yard. . .

. . .and ending in the side yard with his new quad!

He couldn't wait to ride it.  We spent about an hour and a half outside just cruising around the yard.

 I think he likes it!!

 Jakey taking a spin.

Kaleb's party was also a lot of fun!  He had been saying he wanted a Yankee birthday for about a month prior to his birthday.  However, as is typical for a 4 year old, he switched to a Yankee/superhero birthday about 2 days before the party so we tried to accommodate him as best we could. 

 Kaleb giving his ladies a ride on the quad.
 
Jakey and Bestefar.

Lydia playing at the water table.

 Ellie enjoying the baby pool.

 Tyler jumping off the diving board!

 Anna and Lydia swimming.

 Austin getting ready to go down the slide.

 Opening gifts!  Kaleb got a fishing pole and tackle box from Tyler.

Mommy's attempt at a home made cake.  It's supposed to be a baseball
field with superheros as the players.  

Kaleb and Owen eating the cake right off the tray. 
 
Kaleb through the years.

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Happy 1st Birthday Jakob!

So, it's a little late, but Jakob turned 1 on March 3.  I can't believe this little guy is 1 already!!


Dave and I were at a youth leaders conference on Jakob's actual birthday so we couldn't have his party that weekend but we were able to go Red Robin for his free kids meal and ice cream sundae that night.  It was so fun to get to celebrate with him on his special day. 

Ready for my ice cream!

 Yum!!

 Kaleb feeding Jakob his sundae.  Such a good brother!

Best Friends

Kaleb having a fit because his balloon wasn't red.   

The big 1-year-old playing with his balloon on the way home.

Jakob got a pirate ship water table from us for his birthday and the boys couldn't wait to play with it!  It was really fun to set it up in the kitchen and let them go to town - although, I think their favorite part was getting daddy all wet :)

 Loving it even before there's water in it!

 Not sure what this face is about but it's pretty cute :)

 "This is really cool, but I wish you would have put WARM water in it!!"
*yeah, that would have been a good idea. . .whoops!


Last Sunday we had Jakob's birthday party.  It was really small but the weather was beautiful so we had a great time being able to be outside. I made some of his favorite food, we opened gifts, had dessert and enjoyed the sunshine right up until bed time. 


 Jakob's 1st Year
 
 Jakob in his birthday hat right after his nap.

Getting ready to open gifts.
"Why am I sitting in this chair with nothing to eat?!?"

"Not what I what was expecting, but ok"

Opening Gifts

 
Noah's Ark Cake

 
Notice his face?
The one disappointment - he wanted nothing to do with his smash cake!
 The favors - Since it was a Noah's Ark theme, I went to the candy store and got a whole bunch of gummy animals and put two of each animal in each bag.  On the back, I wrote "God told Noah to bring two of every kind of animal onto the Ark".


 Thanks for coming to my party!!
 

Saturday, August 6, 2011

Kaleb's Birthday Eve

"Mommy needs to snuggle you extra long because this is the last night you're going to be two."  That's what I said to Kaleb as he went to bed tonight.  Three?  Really?  Was it really three years ago that I was brought into the hospital for high blood pressure and ended up being rushed into an emergency C-Section at 36 weeks?  It certainly doesn't feel like it!  Tomorrow we'll have a super cool Transformers party with our family but in the midst of it all, I'm sure I'll be thinking about the tiny 5lb 11oz baby that we met that day.  He changed my world and I'm so grateful to have him in my life.  

8-7-08

First Birthday Party, 2009

Second Birthday Party, 2010

Birthday Eve Bowling, 2011