Birthday Party Under The Sea!

We had Tim's 3rd birthday on Saturday and boy was it a day of festivities! It started bright and early with Tim jumping out of bed and waking us up to tell us it was time to get ready for the party! We told him that the party wasn't until after nap time but, that we needed to eat breakfast and get ready to go the store to pick out a fish!

It was a nice morning we had our traditional pancake breakfast! He loved the money the birthday fairy left. It was so cute because he actually gave Matt and I each one of his dollars. It was so sweet for him to share. So after we cleaned up we hurried into town to get some last minute things and his birthday fish!

He picked out a Beta fish, his name is Blue! Tim was so excited he held him all through the store. He and Porter actually got so excited that they started fighting and crying all through the store so we quickly grabbed our things and left! We were the embarrassing cart that you can hear throughout the whole store. But, little did I know that they were so tired that I would have to wake Tim up for his party. So those of you who know how fun it is to wake up your child, know how he acted through his party! He was good for most of it, just really sensitive! All in All I would say it was a success. Last year he sat in time-out 5 times during his party and this year no time-outs! Just lots of tears. But, when he wasn't crying he was having a blast and that's all that counts! So here are the pictures:

This is the party pre-kids! We had about 13 age 4 and under! It was so much fun. A little chaotic at first but, a lot of fun!

Opening presents

Porter hitting the pinata! This is the fishing game we played!

Here is the underwater treasure cakeThis is Blue. You can't see him sorry! But, He is in there! :)

We shout out a big Thank You to all our friends and family! This day was so fun and so special. We are so glad that so many friends were able to come and we missed those that weren't able to make it. Tim received so many wonderful gifts and has loved all of them! Thank You :)

I love Nap Time!

It's times like this.....

That make these moments so nice!

I love to watch my boys sleep!

Valentine Fun!

We had a blast last week! It was so much fun and it went by so fast. There are a lot of pictures in this post and we are going to start backwards from Saturday to Wednesday when all the fun Started!

Our Family Valentine Party!

Matt and I had a really fun romantic dinner together after we put the boys to bed! Actually I think they were watching a movie up in our room.

We have some fun traditions for Valentine's Day. The boys get me flowers and I make them each a candy grahm. It's so much fun! I love to be creative and they really like it. The boys favorite part were the fruit by the foot.

Then we get cute matching pj's! Just like Christmas!
In years past they have said something like Captain Heartbreaker or something like that but,this year they said Handsome Just Like Daddy! I thought they were cute!

Friend Valentine Party
My friends threw a cute Valentine Party for the kids. They decorated sugar cookies, played games, ate treats, gave out valentines and had a complete blast! My boys loved it. Thanks so much Monica and Julie for such a fun party!

Laney and Porter ( I think this is Zach's arm) loved dumping the nerds on the floor and eating them!

Tim and Porter eating their Valentine treats!

Monica and Julie made these cute mail boxes for the the Valentine's! Here is Tim with his!

Decorating Sugar cookies!

Annalei

Emma

Eliza, Zach and Max

and Porter! He couldn't wait to decorate he just started eating it right away!

This is our fun musical hot balloon game we tried to play with 3 year olds! It was a blast, I'm so glad that we were able to have such a fun little party!


Valentine's from Mama Hawkes
Mama sent us Valentine's! They were these cute chocolate boxes. We were so excited!

Tim wouldn't let go of it to take a picture of it. See all the hands grabbing after it!
Porter was super excited! He sure has a sweet tooth! I think we all do in this house! We started eating them one at a time like this!

Then we were hooked...Then we couldn't eat them fast enough!

It was a great 5 minutes! We love chocolate!
Mama thank you so much! We love you!

I hope that each of you had a great Valentine's week. It is one of my most very favorite holidays! I just love, LOVE! Everyone deserves to be loved and have the chance of loving someone! I'm so grateful for my family. I love my Valentine's so much! They mean so much to me, I don't know what I would do with out them!

He's Turning 3!!

Timmy is turning 3 next Saturday we are so excited! I wanted to invite all of our close friends and family to our fun under the sea party! I omitted the address off the invitation because I thought that would be scary with our blog not being private! So if you are feeling up to it come on over to our party! Just let me know so I have enough treats, cake and party favors for everyone!:)

We found it!

Our Beautiful Day! We spent so much time outside and loved every minute of it. It was so nice to get some fresh air. He are my cute boys!

I love to bundle! I think I do a pretty good job at it too!

This is me today with 25 days left. Can you believe that it has gone by so fast. Sorry about the not ready no make-up just having fun with my boys look. The nice thing about my boys is they always make me feel loved whether I'm all fixed up or not!

This is Timmy with Merry Moon. Isn't he the cutest! I just love him so much!

Basking in the beautiful sunlight!

When we got home the boys hadn't had enough of the outdoors so they went outside to play. Where did they go first? The garden. I'm sorry to say that this is not chocolate all over their hands and mouths it's dirt. And they aren't wearing pants because they are on the back porch!
I love my boys! Don't you think this picture of Timmy looks a lot like Matt? Porter was posing for the camera! He loves pictures!

Well, Matt found it! Our camera is back and I'm so happy. Okay so that is just going to top the list of what a great day it was. So this is why today was such a great day!

1. It was 64 degrees outside. Such a nice break from the single digits and such! Timmy is so excited to where his shorts and t-shirts outside!

2. I got to take the boys for a walk. I love to go the the forest preserve that we have here in town. It's so peaceful and motivates me so much! I always leave smiling. Especially when I'm with my cute family. Timmy ran .6 miles with Merry it was so cute to see him holding her leash and running to get exercise!

3. I don't have to go grocery shopping for 2 weeks!

4. I have 6 meals that are super yummy in my freezer! All I have to do is heat and serve..... Thanks so much Aubrey for the help!

5. I was able to have FHE and take care of visiting teaching at the same time! :) Love it! For those of you that don't know I am the worlds worst visiting teacher. So it feels good when I actually do it!

6. I made some super yummy peanut butter kiss cookies! I ate 3 with out feeling guilty at all because I walked this morning at lake of the woods!

7. I am editing my blog and checking facebook!

8. Matt found our camera.

9. I didn't have to pay a balance on our credit card!

10. I only have 25 days left! OH, I'm not ready... I have so much to do!

So you see it is a beautiful day!