Hunter Turns 8

 Our family is a little birthday crazy in January and February.  Hunter and McKay have birthdays just a day apart.  Josh insists that we take all of McKay's decorations down and redecorate for Hunter's birthday (I didn't get a picture...). McKay's birthday always gets Hunter excited for his own.

 His pajamas matched his wrapping paper this year.  Hmmm, might need to do this every year :)

 Hunter is in love with colored jeans and wears his red ones as often as possible.  We tried to get him some variety.

 For his breakfast he chose breakfast casserole and sausage (he is obsessed with sausage).

This was Hunter's birthday poster that Josh and I made for his class.

Hunter had a soccer game during the day, after we headed to the scout shop to get the traditional 8 year old birthday scout uniform.

 For his dinner we had steak and for his cake he chose a soccer ball (I am always relieved when they choose something easy).  We had the cousins over for cake and ice cream (there were awesome to come twice in two days).  

Happy birthday my sweet Hunter-Cakes!

McKay Turns 4

For weeks leading up to McKay's birthday, he would ask us to build him a "party", which turned out to be a fort where he could have all of his toys come to practice celebrating his birthday.  Josh and I both thought it was pretty awesome, so we regularly built the party.

McKay got to celebrate his birthday at preschool the day before his actual birthday.  He has been counting down the days, so getting to celebrate a little early was pretty awesome.

His teacher had some pretty cute things to give him.

 He got to tell the class about himself.  He is such a cute little bashful kid, but he did great.  

He chose fruit snacks for his class, the ultimate 4 year old treat.

 The next day he woke up to presents and decorations.

 He was pretty excited about it.

 McKay loves Rescute Bots right now, so pretty much that is what he got a lot of.  He has played with them like crazy ever since.

The favorite gift was a new "party" that he could put up himself.   

 He picked Mickey Mouse waffles for his birthday breakfast.

 For his dinner we had cousins and Grandma Ann come over for hot dots (that's what he chose) and cake.  He wanted a "Rescue Bot cake with orange on it".  So this is what we did...

He got more presents that night.  

McKay and Lincoln both got Broncos blankets from Grandma Ann.

It was a happy, happy birthday!

Christmas 2013

Christmas is such a wonderful time of year and the night of Christmas Even and the Day of Christmas is my very favorite.  I always loved seeing the Christmas tree heavy with gifts.

 Each of our boys gets their "gift from Santa" with their stocking unwrapped.  Our Christmas traditions are a mix of Josh's and mine growing up.

 McKay was so distressed that he had asked Santa at the Christmas tea for a "coconut book" (I think he meant the book Chika Chika Boom Boom, which we had been reading a lot).  He told me that he really wanted Toy Story characters, which is exactly what he got last year.  I guess you can never have too many.

 Our elf Scout left some Legos for the boys.  How thoughtful of him :)

 My favorite moment of the whole season, when they come in and see everything.  I didn't get any pictures of the room full of lit candles and Christmas music.

It was a lovely and wonderful year!!