Easter, Friends and Guitar Hero

We had a great Easter! Aslan got all dressed up in the cute little outfit Nana and Gramps got him for his birthday. Great style job Nana! He was so beautiful! We were walking through the church with our little handsome and very debonair boy and people were commenting on how adorable he was. :) Clint was very handsome as well in his suite and I was, well... just large :)

We also figured out a little too late that the batteries in our camera were dead :( So we didn't have a major photo shoot. But we did get some cute pictures. After church we went to our friends house, Lauren and Ryan Helfenbein, for lunch. Our dear friend Daniel Patterson was there as well. We had a great time!

Our family picture. Marvel at the largeness which has become my face...

My two handsome gentlemen. 

Then there was Guitar Hero. That is a game where you get cordless guitars and try to keep up with the TV screen that is prompting you to play certain tunes. It's kinda like karaoke except with guitars. They were mesmerized. 

Aslan was totally in too it! Of course he was!! He is such the musician :)

More Guitar Hero~

Here is my husband jamming out to the game, in his Easter duds. They did this for 2-3 hours, no kidding. Lauren and I had girl talk in the other room :) 

This is what happens to a person after 3 hours of Guitar Hero :) 

Daniel and Ryan~ can you see the intensity with which they are strumming their guitars? Very serious. 

Also, notice that all the boys were wearing light blue dress shirts. I think they were coordinating for there musical debut as Guitar Hero's  :0:0:0 

Hope everyone had a great Easter!!

Aslan's 2nd Birthday party

Last weekend we had Aslan's birthday party. It was so much fun and I had such a great time planning and preparing. For the last few months I've been planning and picking up things slowly. Also, I have to send a huge Thank You! to my Aunt Becky who generously donated some great party things! Also, my hard working husband and our friends Ben and lindsay who helped us set up. We met Ben and Lindsay when they visited our church a couple of months ago and immediately hit it off. We have been getting together regularly since then and I'm extremely grateful for their willingness to give up a sunday afternoon to help set up my son's party! They are fabulous!

This was the entrance welcome, it was a Cars theme :)

Thanks to my sweet dad for supplying the tires!

This was "Winners Circle"  :) where there were some fun games (on the right) and his "Victory" chair where he opened his presents. Notice the cool 'victory lane' sign my Aunt B sent. Loved it!

This was the "winner's circle" cake with the little cupcake cars surrounding the victory car :) Cheesy yes, but that is the fun of kid's birthday parties! Aslan loved it!

For snacks we also had:

 Luigi's Famous White Wall Tires (chocolate cookies with a ring of white icing)

Radiator Springs One Stop Snacks (Graham crackers w/ chocolate icing & M&M's to look like        traffic lights)

Filmore's Organic Fuel (Water)
This is my favorite picture! We were blowing out his candles, he loved the cake and the candles and was so excited. That made everything totally worth it!

more on next post :)

Aslan's party continued...

Opening presents

Our sweet friends: Daniel, Ben and Lindsay

(My parents were also there but somehow we missed a picture with them)

One of the games was 'Fishing with Tow Mater" where the kids would take a special Cars fishing pole and send it over the curtain to fish for surprises. This is crazy Ben hiding and putting the surprises in the little bucket. Thank you Ben!!

Another guest, our neighbor, Claudia and her daughter Sofia playing at the play dough table.

We had a coloring table with a huge color sheet of Lightening McQueen, play dough, little arcade games (found on clearance at Target!), cars to ride on and a little bulls-eye game.

Happy Birthday Aslan!

Party Weekend Part 2

We ate pizza, which was surprisingly, really good. Aslan sat right in the booth (no booster seat or high chair) and ate his pizza. Such a big boy!

These were fun drums and they made lots of sound, he loved it!!

The jet ski thing, not a big hit but I think Nana had fun.

This was a gun thing, again I think enjoyed more by the grandparent than the kid :) Love it!

It was so much fun watching him enjoy everything. Thank you Gramps and Nana for a fun night of pizza, games and kid chaos!

Party Weekend!!

First Let me say that... I AM DILATED!!! WOO-HOO!! For those readers not so much familiar with pregnancy lingo, this baby is getting ready to make his big entrance!!! But I do need him to wait until I get a few more things together :) I'm confident he will, but it is still exciting to know that my body is preparing and that will make the induction easier.

 

This past weekend my parents came up to finish Aslan's birthday celebrations and we had so much fun! Aslan asked for them all week and then when they arrived Saturday night, he was so excited. They took us to Chuck E. Cheese and we had so much fun. It was complete insanity with all sorts of kids and interesting types but, fun nonetheless.

The fun slide, please notice his cute new hair cut. 

Gramps helping him do the pound thingy.

He is riding the horse on Cinderella's carriage, not so much the ride but with Nana anything is possible.

The rocket ship, he wasn't real sure about this one.

My Baby Is Two!

On March 9 my precious boy turned 2. I can hardly believe it has been two years since I first held him. Since the moment he entered this crazy world, he has been a complete joy. It seems impossible that he should be able to run and jump and sing and dance... say "no!", throw temper tantrums and ask the same question 500 times. But as much as I would love to keep him small, I am coming to love all the new things he is doing.

He wraps his arms around my neck and kisses both sides of my cheeks and then plants a big one right on my lips.

When we lay down to take a nap, he kisses my arm as he cuddles up to me. Then he rubs my face so sweetly, just as I do his.

He loves to make me laugh.

When I discipline him, he immediately kisses and hugs me (smart little fellow :)

I love all these sweet things. It makes every tantrum and difficult moment worth it, a thousand times. I wouldn't trade my job for anything in this world! I am so thankful for a husband who works so hard to let me stay home.

The Birthday Cake ( I made this all by myself!)

He loves Cars, so it was a big hit!

 

Such a big hit, that after he took all the cars of the cake, he didn't care to open any other presents! This is me trying to persuade him to open them. He is clearly uninterested.

Finally he opened one,  the matching monkey spoon, fork and plate were a pretty big hit.

I also found this little drum set on clearance at Walmart for a really, really low price. Such fun!!

We had a great time, just the three of us enjoying his birthday. We had 12 inches of snow outside and a very toasty apartment inside (the only reason for my child being in nothing but a diaper and a t-shirt). So we just lounged around, played in the snow and had a happy birthday kinda day.