2.5 years old!

 My little boy turned 2.5 last week! How is that possible? 

Just because I love to spoil him rotten, he got a new scooter on his half birthday. He was so excited to open it up and test drive it.

Such a fake smile! He was in no mood for pictures... he was so anxious to open it.

Taking it for a spin around the house.

Kane also got a special cookie to celebrate the day.

My kind of guy... goes straight for the icing!

Love my big 2.5 year old so much!

And with this face, I put the camera away. He was so over me taking his picture! ha!

party people

We kicked off our Saturday with RJ's 9th birthday party. He is without a doubt the sweetest kid I have ever been around. I admire my step-sister so much and the kind of mom she is. 

RJ and Melanie

RJ had his party at Monkey Bizness... an inflatable party house. 

Kane loved going down the giant slide with Michael!

My guys!

After RJ's party we raced to Caden's birthday party, so we wouldn't miss the gender reveal of his soon to be sibling. It just so happened that Caden and his dad had a birthday right around the same time that they found out the sex of the baby, so Kristina had one big party! 

Kristina had the cutest table setup for the reveal. This was the cake.. she just had to cut it open to find out the sex of the baby!

All the guests got to guess the sex of the baby. 

Love this idea!

K and A playing outside

the birthday boy and Kane

 the kids played inside while Kristina got ready to cut the cake!

It's a....

GIRL!!!!

There was not a dry eye in the house! Kristina was SO excited. Her reaction was priceless! I am so excited for her and her family! 

After the big reveal, we sang happy birthday to Caden and his dad!

We had the best Saturday celebrating with friends and family! We are so thankful that they included us on their special days!

Ella's Luau

Sweet Ella celebrated her 1st birthday with a big Luau party on Saturday. She was the most adorable birthday girl ever! We love her so much and were thrilled to celebrate her!

Ella and her Aunt Holly

She just started walking, so it was nearly impossible to get  her picture!

While Ella was socializing inside, we took Kane outside for a swim.

We love Ella so much and had a blast at her birthday party!

50 sucks

Last Friday my stepdad turned 50! 

My sisters and I have been planning his party for what seems like forever! We had lots of surprises up our sleeves... starting with Krista flying in from Virginia! We surprised him at work on Friday and took him to lunch at Escalante's. 

My stepdad with his 2 daughters... Krista and Melanie

Saturday afternoon we met at my mom's house while he was away and started decorating for his big surprise party! We made him this gift basket complete with an Apple TV

His next door neighbor made him this one

Lots of suckers for lots of kids!

He was so surprised when he walked in!

The kids bagged up some of the confetti and kept jumping out at random times to surprise others... they thought it was hysterical!

For his last surprise, we had his siblings fly in for his party. It was possibly the sweetest sight ever to see how excited he was to have them there. 

Aunt Krista and Kane

haha! best shirt ever!

Krista and I took on the task of emailing 50 people from his past and asking them to send us a memory that they had of him. It was more difficult to get all this organized than we ever imagined, but SO worth it! 

(idea from Pinterest)

Melanie handing him the letters. He was so touched that people took the time to do this just for him.

 Love and appreciate him more than he knows!

I am pretty sure the bakery misunderstood how many people we needed to feed! ha! So much cake!

Melanie insisted that he blow out 50 candles, so he recruited all the grandchildren to help him.

 While assisting in blowing out the candles Kane helped himself to a big chunk of cake! oops! 

 After cake we all sat down to watch a slideshow that Melanie put together.

 Krista, Kane and Cadyn

Kylie and Krista

pretty positive Kane helped himself to enough suckers to make MY stomach hurt

My mom and her best friend. They have been BFFs since they were 6 years old.

 my sweet grandmother

Scott and his siblings

My blue eyed girls!

Once the party died down, we all went outside so the guys could race their cars.

We had the best time planning Scott's 50th birthday party! So glad we were able to pull it all off!