A MONTH Late!!

Looks like I need to be playing blog catch up again! Here are pics from Kylie's birthday party A MONTH ago!! We had a family BBQ to celebrate. It was a lot of fun. We even had family from Wisconsin come visit us! :)
We had dinner first. Here is the kids table. :) (The party was Mickey Mouse themed. I took Kylie to the party store and let her pick whatever she wanted. Mickey it was!)The adults ate in the dining room right next to the kid's table. Look at those two babies we were lucky to have join us! They are both SO CUTE! :) And THANK YOU Brad, Dana, and Alan for flying in today so you could be there! :)

We had pictures for them to color and the birthday girl helped set it all up.After dinner we went outside and let the kids run around. And run they did! They had a blast chasing each other and playing around the garden. (Don't know why but kids LOVE going to our garden boxes and walking around them and stuff. It's so cute. And I'll have to post new pics of our garden because I can't believe this is what it looked like a month ago. It's all green and huge now!)

We had a little bubble machine going too that was a lot of fun. The kids chased these all over.

Then on to the pinata. This was fun to watch. So timid at first...

Then Tyler entered the scene to help!!! I loved watching both of their faces!

Sophie got her turns as well and they all got quite in to it.

Since little Bailey didn't want to try, we let Holden go at it and crack it! He must have learned from his Dad! :)

There was a lot of candy for these kiddo's and they loved gathering it all up!

Since Holden was our winner for breaking it, he got to wear what was left of it! He looks just precious with it on his head! Even matches his shirt! :)

The beautiful girl that I actually got to turn around to look at me during all the festivities. :)

She got her Minnie cake and did a great job blowing out the candles...

..and an equally good job eating the cake and getting frosting all over! :)

Then on to the presents. She was so excited for this. She was totally in to it. Would open one up, and then set that aside quickly and open another. Usually she is a slow present opener, but not today! :)

And then I tried to get a pic of the kids by the Mickey picture, but as you can see it didn't work so well. I think it's so funny and cute of them all! Kids are the best! (We didn't even get all the kids in it...we missed Caleb and Finley!!!)

At least Sophie was willing to pose for me! Thanks dear! I appreciate it! :)

We had a great time and Kylie still loves to talk about her birthday party! Thanks everyone for coming! :) I can't believe my baby is 3 already! Where DOES THE TIME GO?!?!?! I miss my baby! But it's so fun to watch them grow up!!! Happy Birthday sweet Kylie!!!!

Kylie's Birthday...

I can't believe I haven't posted these yet. Sorry! But we had a great time for Kylie's birthday! We had a BBQ the Sat before her birthday that was a blast (I will post pics of that soon too!), then we continued the celebration throughout the long weekend. We even had some FUN and WONDERFUL guests there the whole time! Brian's brother and his family (Brad, Dana, and Alan) came to visit and it was a BLAST!!! We had a great time with them and we're SO GLAD we got some time with them. Here are some pictures from our celebration...

We thought it would be fun to have Kylie pick out some things herself at the store for her birthday. We had some presents for her already, but took her to the store to have her find some things she loved. She LOVED being able to play with some toys at the store and get to take some home! :)

Kylie LOVES bubbles. Seriously...if I would sit there all day and just blow bubbles she would be so happy. Well luckily...they have things that will just sit there and blow bubbles for you now! I found this octopus that I got for her birthday BBQ for the kids. It was fun. Then when we went shopping we found another one...


This mega one was a HIT! It blows these HUGE bubbles and bubbles in bubbles and stuff. We spent quite a bit of time playing with this outside.

Here she is running around getting her bubbles. She had full reign of the porch. :)

And what were the Dads doing while we were playing with bubbles?! Well...the boys were chatting landscaping. After we went shopping for Kylie...we did a little shopping for our yard. Brad and Dana are PRO Landscapers so we wanted there help while they were here. The boys planned it all out for us...thanks! Now we need to go buy everything and start planting!

And the view of them both...Kylie running around with the bubbles and the boys chatting landscaping.

During our celebration, we also went to the zoo. (Of course because Kylie LOVES this place!) Here are the visitors that we LOVE at their first trip to the Hogle Zoo!!!!

Looks like Kylie is sleeping here, but she's bending down to tell her Daddy something very important. :) They are SO CUTE together! When Brian is around....that is who Miss Kylie wants to be with. :)

Brad and baby Alan checking out some monkeys. TOO CUTE!!!
The brothers and their kids with the gorilla. They are all loving this pic...can't you tell?! :)

And Baby Alan sitting up there all by himself?!?! :) Wow! (Thank heavens the gorilla was tall enough and such so Brad could hide behind it for us to get this picture!)

Cousins together hanging out on the big metal elephant at the zoo! :)
We had to take the train ride too! Look at this cute family! :)
There are some big hills to walk up and sometimes we just need a little help. :)

So since you can't really tell...there is a kangaroo sleeping under that tree. Why the picture?! Well these three and headed off to Australia to live for a few years. Brad's job is taking them there. (LUCKY'S!!!) Anyway: we wanted to get a picture of the first time Alan ever saw a kangaroo! See....you guys can move to Utah and still have the same things to see! :) Hehe.
Kylie's fave thing to do at the zoo may just be to ride the carousel. So of course we had to do this. Here is Kylie handing the attendant her ticket. She was excited...although you can't tell by her face. :)

And here is Daddy/Daughter about to start their ride. I believe we rode this like 3 or 4 times this day.

Baby Alan with his Daddy riding it as well. Don't think he had the same love for it as Kylie but it was still so cute! :)

I have more pics to share. It was SO MUCH FUN to celebrate our beautiful daughter, Kylie. And have Brad, Dana, and Alan there too. We MISS YOU GUYS!!!!