Gavin Is Three!

I can't believe our sweet boy is three years old! Time really flies. He is such a sweet boy and we love him so much. I am so grateful he is a part of our family. 

He changed his mind so many times for his birthday party we finally just decided to go with a Star Wars theme. Mimi helped so much with the decorations and the treats. Thank you Mimi!

 

 

 

Brad was such a good sport to be our Darth Vader.

 

 

 

Gavin (and Daddy) is so excited to play hockey. He still isn't quite big enough to play but he is big enough to learn to skate. We took him a few times before his birthday and rented skates and I was so impressed at how well he did. I'm sure with his own skates he'll be even better!

Wheeler Farm

Gavin and I got to go to Wheeler Farm with Juliana, one of my old roommates from Disney World. Let me just say I'm so glad the rest of her family moved to Utah so she has a reason to come to Utah. I'm also pretty sure she's the only roommate from Florida I've kept in any sort of contact with. haha

Gavin was so funny on the way to the farm he kept telling me I can't see Jul-ee-ana and he told me he wasn't going to be shy.... he was. Julie also brought her super cute niece along which made things extra fun for Gavin.

Feeding the ducks and the geese.

 

Checking out Mr. Goat.

Of course we had to get an ice cream :)

Hanging out in the playhouse. They were so cute. Too bad two minutes later he smashed his face and gave himself a bloody lip.

On our way home with a fat lip.

Thank you so much Julie for hanging out with us at the farm!

I Had A Birthday.... Hooray!

Aren't birthday's the best?! ... Well besides the fact that I'm pretty sure I'm at the point that I don't want to get older ha ha.

This year Grandpa Draudt's work summer Lagoon party fell on the day before my birthday so we got to have some fun as a family. Daddy took Brooklyn on a lot of the bigger rides while I took Gavin on the smaller rides so that's why I have more pictures of him. Everyone had lots of fun. Gavin loved all the rides and was a little bummed he was too small for some of the rides. Brooklyn's favorite was Wicked... I still can't believe she's tall enough. We also got to see the awesome Bosque show they had going on.... it was incredible. 

Nice and wet after the "fishy" ride.

 

We all got pretty wet but Grandma and Brooklyn got the worst of it.

Saturday was my work summer party at the Bee's baseball game. We love going to baseball games and we had so much fun. 

Sunday Chris helped the kids decorate a birthday cake for me. Chris did the basic frosting and the writing. Brooklyn did the borders and Gavin did the sprinkles. I think they did a fantastic job. 

 

Thank you to everyone for coming to celebrate my birthday. 

Our last weekend with Brooklyn... I can't believe summer is over. Anyway...We took the kids to one last day at Seven Peaks which was super fun. Gavin was a little nervous about going on the big slide but after we went down the first time he wanted to go again. 

Chris took the kids to the Ninja Turtles movie which they thoroughly enjoyed and came home singing "m-c Mikey". After we delivered the nightmare cake we stopped at Cabelas to see the the fishies and animals. We then stopped to pick up a backpack and some school supplies for the big second grader... wishing I would have take a picture of her with her backpack. Brooklyn is growing and learning so much she still doesn't like to read much but she is getting better and most of the time can sound things out when we make her read haha. I know she is going to do well this year and can't wait to see what she learns.

She chose this outfit because she wanted to look like Mimi.