Reed's Actual Birthday 2017

After a small Birthday get together the weekend prior and a family dinner planned for the upcoming weekend we didn't plan much for Reed's actual Birthday. His day started with our pancake stack tradition (6 total this year!), then we followed that up with popsicles with his classmates, a few gifts, homemade pizzas, a few more gifts, and a board game to complete the night. It was such a nice day and I just loved watching his genuine happiness!!!

 

Jon's Birthday

When your Birthday is on a Monday it's hard to make it too exciting but we managed to get a little celebrating in for poor Jon this year. We hit up one of our favorite local restaurants for some hamburgers and then came home to open presents. Don't feel too bad for him he did get to hang out with some of his guy friends over the weekend and I think they had enough fun to last him the rest of the week!

 

Reed's First Party of 2017

Going in to Reed's Birthday he was insistent on having a Hot Wheels themed party and a three-layer cake. Since Reed just started at a new school, still goes to his old preschool some afternoons, is friends with a lot of our friend's kids, and is on a soccer team with some kids he knows, I wasn't sure who'd he'd want to invite to a party, but I went ahead and asked. Surprisingly he just wanted to invite a handful of kids (just some of our friend's children) and said he didn't want to invite any school friends because he was meeting new friends in his class and some of his old friends are in other classes and he wasn't sure who he should invite. Since this was going to make my life WAY easier I was immediately on board! I also surprised Reed with a bounce house, that he was ecstatic about, and convinced him cupcakes were better for a crowd of kids. At one point Kieran decided it was cupcake time and went and picked up the entire storage container with them in it. By the time they made it to me they were a hot mess, but the kiddos didn't seem to mind. We partied past sunset so the kids got to play with flashlights which they loved. Reed had so much fun and all of the kids had a great time together.

 

 

Grandpa's Birthday BBQ

The Sunday prior to Grandpa's Birthday we went over to Grandma and Grandpa's to celebrate. The boys and I made brownies and we were spoiled by Grandma and Grandpa cooking the rest. G-Momma recently moved to Fresno so she was able to join us too! The boys worked really hard to make Grandpa an extra large Birthday card they were so proud of. We loved spending time with everyone and the boys were very helpful - setting the table, helping Grandma feed the dogs, opening Grandpa's presents, and helping him with the candles on his brownies.