Jake's 3rd birthday Party

Over the weekend we threw Jake a 3rd Birthday bash. He has a couple little friends in the neighborhood and we just thought it would be fun to have our friends and neighbors over for a bar-b-q. Jake loved his party theme, John Deere of course. I had fun planning the party and the food. I made his cake again this year and it was my first time using fondant, i made my own marshmallow fondant and it actually turned out pretty well for my first time. Anyway he liked it, mostly for the tractor on the top but that's OK.

We had a fun afternoon with everyone that came. We are so blessed to have such wonderful friends and neighbors here in Kansas. It makes being so far away from our families a little easier.

Jake had a great 3rd Birthday and we are so glad he is in our family.

  

 

Jake's 3 years old!

Today is my baby's 3rd birthday. I won't lie...i am sad. I don't want him to grow even one day older....but i don't think i have a choice. He is such a bright and sweet little guy. He makes us laugh everyday without even trying. He loves his big brother so much even when that love isn't always reciprocated. He is always willing to help and he always, always wears a smile. We love him so much and our family would have never been complete without him.

We love you Jakey HAPPY 3rd BIRTHDAY!!

 

Aunt Dayna visit and Easter Egg Hunt!!

We had a very fun and very busy weekend last weekend. My sister Dayna came from Utah to visit us. We did lots of fun stuff and she wore us out with fun. Me and her went to the movie twice, we did lots of shopping, had lots of pre-Easter fun and had a birthday campfire celebration. It was a great weekend and we miss her already.

Our town always has a Egg hunt the weekend before Easter so we made sure to get to it again this year. There were not too many people there this year so the boys got lots and lots of eggs.

Here they are before the hunt...

Yeah i think they got their fair share of eggs, what do you think?

A visit to the big fluffy guy....

Saturday was Dayna's birthday, we were so glad that she could spend it with us this year. We had our first backyard fire of the season and made a special birthday smore in honor of the birthday gal.

 

Did i mention that Jake LOVES marshmallow's? Well he really, really does....

Happy Birthday Aunt Dayna, we hope you had a great one with us!

New Entertainment....

Last weekend Robert put together the swing set that us and Robert's parents got for Jake for his birthday. It was quite a job. It took him all weekend but he got the job done and the boys couldn't be happier. They are out there every morning after breakfast and again after Cody gets home from school. The weather has been so nice here the last week or so and it's given me a glimpse of summer and i can't wait. They boys outside = a cleaner house inside so whats not to like about that.

Here's a pic of the project in the beginning stages....

Getting closer to finishing....

Staking it down....

Yahooooo, it's finished!!

I think they like it, what do you think?

CoCo Key Water Park

Over Spring break we had planned a fun trip to a small town here in Kansas to go to a Wildlife type Zoo. Well the weather didn't cooperate and we ended up canceling our hotel and staying home. I didn't want the whole weekend to be a bust so we took the kids to a indoor water park in Kansas City. So not a really exciting trip, no we didn't go to Disneyland like we heard people thought, we just went to a water park for the afternoon and it was about all the fun me and Robert could handle ;)

Cody is getting quite adventurous and went on all the slide with me, i was a pretty proud mama. I only have one picture of Cody in the bunch of pic's below because he was in super speed mode and did not have time for pictures. Jake had a fun time too, he loves the little slides and i even took him down a little bit bigger one until we got in trouble because he wasn't tall enough, lol. It was a fun day and we were all super tired that night.

Cody on a big slide....

St. Patricks Day Fun

 This year me and the boys decided it would be fun to make a Leprechaun trap to see if we could catch the silly little Leprechaun that comes every year to leave us treats. Cody was very hopeful that we would trap him and we could keep him as a pet. We tried our best to bait him in with lucky charms, rainbows, fake gold and shamrocks.

This morning we found all the Lucky Charms eaten, and no Leprechaun, oh man or dang it as Jake would say. We didn't catch that sneaky Leprechaun but he did leave us a shamrock treasure hunt to go on....

The treasure hunt was fun and he left the boys some bags of gold treats!

While Jake was napping i had a graphing activity for Cody. He graphed the rainbow of colors in a package of Skittles! 

He loved it....can ya tell?

After dinner we had our small group meeting at our church and i made this fun fruit rainbow to take as a treat. It was a big hit!

We had a fun St. Patty's day this year and we are looking forward to a beautiful weekend and a fun trip.....I'm sure you'll hear about that soon;)

Monster Jam 2011

Yesterday we took the boys to Monster Jam. The boys, especially Cody had been waiting and waiting for this day to come for a while. Him and Jake got the tickets for Christmas and were so excited. We got Pit Passes that enabled us to go down and get a close up look at the trucks before the show. The boys even got a few autographs. It was a fun show. Cody was VERY into it and Jake's favorite part was the 4-wheelers and motorcycle's, he waved at every one of them. Cody was excited to see Grave Digger and found a new truck that he liked named Reptoid. Jake's favorite truck was Teenage Muntant Ninja Turtle, which he affectionately called "baby turtle." We ended up having front row seats, i did not know this at the time i ordered them but Cody was one happy boy when we realized where we were sitting!

Here are a few pictures....we only took a few ;)

Jake didn't care for this wolf thing much.....

This truck below is out of Toganoxie, KS, just a little ways from us. He was awesome at the show and even rolled over, i think it was planned but he said he wanted to give us fans a good show. It happened right in front of us, it was pretty cool, you'll see it a few pictures down.

One of my favorite pictures from the whole day......

Here we go....Bounty Hunter starting to tip.....

and tip........

and he's down!

They had to bring a loader out to help get it back on it's wheels.

We had a fun filled day full of super manly Monster Trucks and stuff with wheels. I'm one lucky gal huh;)