Claire's 2nd Birthday!!

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Just 5 days after Jackson turned 4, Claire turned 2!  It was hard to switch birthday gears so fast, August is now going to be such a busy month for us!  But I sure had fun celebrating Claire's first birthday with us!!!

We had an ice cream theme since Claire LOVES ice cream. 

It was a low-key party, just family.  I didn't want to overwhelm her on her big day! 

Here is the birthday girl in the adorable shirt my friend Leanne made her.  I need to take better photos of her so you can see the entire shirt-it has her name on it and on the 2 scoop ice cream cone it has a "2."  (Her hairbow has a sparkly crown in the middle of the two flowers by the way-just perfect for our princess!! :))

Claire with Grandma and Grandpa B.

Grandma and Grandpa S were able to drive down for her party too, we were so thankful!

Laura made this BEAUTIFUL cake for her birthday, it was SO tasty and adorable!

Claire received lots of fun presents-one that she loved was this baby stroller.

 

Opening more presents!  I wasn't sure how she would do with all the attention on her, but she did great!

Ryan and I got her this mini trampoline-she LOVED it.  She is our most active child by far and so we wanted to get her something physical for her to do.

We did two small activities- pin the cherry on the ice cream cone (the kids helped me color the cone! :)...

and an ice cream cone piñata.

Then it was time for cake!

She LOVED it.  But loved the ice cream even more!

We love you so much Claire Bear!  We complete our family and we are so blessed to have you in our family!

Bye everybody, see you next year!!!

Jackson's 4th Birthday!

 

This Ninja Turtle turned 4 in the middle of August.  He is slightly obsessed with Ninja Turtles so we had a lot of fun having a ninja party!

 Our party favor was a "pizza" cookie because Ninja Turtles love pizza!

 Our three kiddos! :) 

 We got Jackson a stuffed ninja turtle for his birthday and he LOVED it!

 We did a "ninja training" party with the kids.  They had these little ninja masks and then we did a few little training activities.  The first one was the kids had to look for bad guys through-out the house. 

 Then they had to show that they were "masters in disguise" and wrap each other up like mummies.

 All ninjas have to have good aim-so they did target practice with bean bags and earned candy for landing on the target.

 Then they of course had to eat pizza!

 

 We then did a piñata.

 The cute birthday boy!

 My mom got Jackson this cute sparkler "4" candle.  He was a little scared of it!

 We then sang the birthday song!

 We opened presents last and he received tons of fun stuff.  This one was one of his favorites-Jackson loves snuggly blankets. 

We love this little guy so much! 

It's Been Awhile

Wow I think this is the longest break I've ever taken from blogging! I got so far behind I felt overwhelmed! But I'm going to try to get back into it.  We have had two birthdays and a baptism, so lots to catch up on! 

 

Just some random pics this post- here is my awesome colorer!  I LOVE that he loves to color, because his big brother Cooper HATES to color.  Jackson is really into it and does this cute little thing with his tongue when he colors. :)

 

 He colors very elaborately and uses tons of different colors- love it!

 We have turned Claire into a TV addict as well-but only to Mickey Mouse.  It sure helps when I need to make dinner or take a shower! :)

 Just a cutie pie!

 Cooper has been obsessively practicing climbing the wall-he loves to climb to the top.

 More smiley Claire.  Things are going so well with her.  It just feels totally natural with her now, just like with the boys.  It's amazing.  She is so comfortable with us too and has even stayed with Grandma and my sister a few times with no problems!  We need to try it at night-still haven't done that yet.  Ryan and I are needing  date night! :)

 Her little "cheese."  Love it!