Saturday, November 27, 2010

Cooper's 3rd Birthday Party ~ Part I

We celebrated Cooper's 3rd birthday with a fire truck themed party today. He had a great time at his party and received many great gifts from family and friends. Thanks for celebrating with us! Get ready for picture overload!!!

Cooper and the girls started the day off with french toast compliments of daddy

After a morning of playing the party was ready to begin.
The decorations
He's practicing blowing out the candles!

Don't you just love his shirt?
I think he's proud of it!
In uniform with the fireman's hat
The cupcakes
chocolate, red velvet or vanilla
The big balloon
time to open gifts
just toss the paper to the side
this is so exciting!
A firetruck of his very own!!!
A firetruck backpack
back to the firetruck
another present to open
WOW! More firetrucks and rescue cars
it has a siren too
He loves to line up his trucks
A new shirt to wear
More paper to toss
What's up with all the paper?

More presents??
A farm play set
back to the firetruck and the sirens
a book shaped like a firetruck
A rescue tow truck
Let's see how this thing works!
Cooper would move the trucks from one lineup to another
Lighting of the candle ~ it seems to soon to have a "3" on his cake
He liked having everyone sing to him
I just love his smile
blowing out the candle

He did it!
Dig in!
YUM!
MMM good!
Ms Kim came to celebrate with us!
Ms Deb is there to lend a hand
Sharing (for the moment!)
The girls got a few presents too
Lining the trucks up again
He has the corralled in the train track!
A little video of Cooper singing happy birthday to himself!

Friday, November 26, 2010

Thankful

We were so blessed to have our families come and join us for the day after Thanksgiving meal. Since everyone had the traditional Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday, we grilled steak and shrimp! And had Ginger's delicious apple pie for dessert.

The dinner table
the kids' table
Keira and Reagan
Aren't they cute?
Keira
Cooper
Reagan
They giggled (& fought) all night long
The grown ups

Byrd & Kim
After dinner conversations between mother and daughters