Matthew turns 3!!!!!

On April 22nd Matthew had his 3rd birthday! Neither Scott nor I can believe our baby is 3, it seems so crazy to us :)

It was a busy day, but packed with fun...

He was told when he woke up that it was his birthday, he jumped right out of bed and the excitement didn't wear off until late that night.

He got a phone call from Mickey Mouse that morning, dad made his favorite breakfast and he got to open 1 present-a lego set and he got his "new" cars booster-seat. It wasn't so much new as it was new to him. I took Makayla's old princess car seat and recovered it with Cars material so he could have a boy booster! He loves it

All day he was telling every one that it was his birthday. He was so excited that his birthday had finally come;we had been telling him "for your birthday" for so long I think he thought it was NEVER going to come.

He chose Chuck E Cheese for dinner; this was one of the many things he had heard "for your birthday" on over and over so when he FINALLY got there he was crawling out of his skin with excitement. He didn't know what to do first and certainly couldn't be doing just one thing for very long. LOL He got to meet the real Chuck E., played all the games, rode about every ride at least once and played in the play land!

After we got home we ate cupcakes, I was putting the candles in his and without thinking gave him 2. Luckily, Makayla caught it and told me he needed 3 candles! So, thanks to his big sister, he got to blow out 3 candles in his cupcake. And of course, we sang to him and he opened his gifts.

He was so excited about everything that when he opened one of the gifts and all he saw was a box he simply said (with pure delight) "A BOX!!!!" He didn't care what he was getting, he just loved that this day and everything about it revolved around him :)

The next day he asked if it was his birthday again, when he was told no he cried and said "I want my birthday back" That's how you know your little man truly enjoyed his birthday :D

THE BIRTHDAY BOY!!!!!

The new booster seat-

His new (and first) lego set

He colored a Chuck E Cheese birthday picture,

it was sent to me with a coupon for some tokens

for his birthday celebration there.

Thoroughly enjoying his birthday :)

CHUCK E CHEESES:

he tried really hard to play skee ball the right

way, but it wasn't working. So he improvised :p

Not looking at the camera, but still he got to see Chuck E

Blowing out 3 candles~

PRESENTS!!!!!

he got his own measuring tape, now

he can stop stealing Daddy's

His own BIG airplane

He loves, Loves, LOVES Play-doh

Look at that excited face, he got his own leap pad.

He got his own art easel, dry erase markers are the best

building the fire truck with Daddy

Our New Tent Trailer

We finally got our own camper!!!!

We are so excited :) After saving for 2 summers and traveling

across half the state looking at a variety of them.

We FINALLY found the right one!

Now we are ready for the camping season to start!

We are all looking forward to the many different places this

wonderful thing will take us and all the memories we will make with it.

Here's a few shots from the inside-

The kids on one of the beds (the extra boy is Alyssa's friend lol)

Spring Fun

We had a play date at the park with Chelse and Mac. We've had a nice breeze lately so we attempted kite flying. The kids were way excited because they had just gotten new kites from their Grandma for Easter. Unfortunately the kites were kind of a bust...they don't have a very good "wing span" so they would go up a few feet then spiral down. It was cool to watch, but very frustrating for the kids. Chelse was able to get the Elmo one up relatively easy so they each got a turn to fly that one.

The girls attempting to fly their new fish kites

She ran and ran hoping to get it to go up, it never did.

This was about as high as we got them.

Then they would come crashing down_

Matthew had no interest in flying kites,

he played on the playground instead.

Chelse & Mac with the Elmo kite

Mac enjoyed being able to run around outside.

***Spring has been long awaited for all of us!

Alyssa praising Makayla for getting her kite that high!

Every once in a while we had to wait for a

good gust of wind to get the kites up

We did successfully get a kite stuck in a tree lol

Alyssa didn't find it as humorous as I did.

I've never actually had a kite get stuck in a tree

before, but I've heard of it happening :)

After the kids had enough with the kites we got the bubbles out. The little ones would have chased them all day, but Makayla got tired of blowing them after a while.

Easter Sunday

So normally I like to take the pictures of the kids in their Easter dress outside with spring flowers in the background, but since I have no flowers as of yet I had to take them inside.

They all turned out so cute that I had a hard time choosing which ones to post!