Ben's 2nd 2nd Birthday Party

Last night we had Ben's birthday celebration with my family. Pops & GranMartha made a birthday feast: bruschetta and cheese for appetizers, steaks, homemade mac n cheese, fried asparagus, bread, and fruit salad for dinner, and Cars cakes for dessert. I'm afraid Ben is getting used to being the center of attention at events. This morning he sang "Happy Birthday" to himself as he ate breakfast!!!

Sweet Baby James is ready to party!!!

 Birthday Boy

 Mr. Life of the Party

 opening presents

 GranMartha got the cutest Cars cake pan. We all decorated our own car! Of course, Jackson made a green one.

 Pops & Jackson

 GranMartha & Kaki were not messin around!

 We love our Benjamin!

 Loving the attention

 GranMartha showing off her beautiful car!

 Happy Birthday to You...

 birthday cake!

 The masterpieces made by Kathryn, GranMartha, & Ryan D.

 watching Wipeout

 Ben loving on his GranMartha

 and being silly with his Pops!

p.s.- I promise our children own clothes. Feel lucky you got the pics of them in diapers/underwear. I have about 20 more pics of the evening that don't even include them! The boys were playing in the sprinkler outside. :-)

No News

No real news around here to share, but I had some cute pics on my camera:

Jackson working on his alphabet puzzle. He has to match the uppercase letter to the lowercase letter.

Ben thinks his brother is so funny!

Ben playing with his new grill from Papa John & Nana. 

Handsome boy before church

Sweet Ben decided he needed the big chair to himself. Thankfully, that only lasted 1 day!!!

Love his imagination

Brother Reading Time

Ice Cream with GranMartha at National Day of Prayer in Town Center

He takes his ice cream seriously.

Have you tried Cake Pops at Starbucks? I splurged the other day and got some...YUM!

When we were in TN a couple weeks ago, Ryan built this bridge from the cabin to the playground. What a fun daddy! The boys love it. 

Thanks Dad! 

Happy 2nd Birthday Ben!

Happy 2nd Birthday Ben!!! We love you so very much!

We've been celebrating all month. We are so thankful for our precious boy! You had a great 2 year old checkup. You weigh 34 pounds (96%) and are 3' 0.5" tall (94%)- big boy!! The doctor agreed that you are absolutely perfect. 

 We went to Abilene for Ben's birthday weekend to be there for Uncle Morgan's ACU graduation. (Way to go Morgan!!!) We had a graduation/bday party Friday night. I took Ben to Party City and let him pick out what kind of party he wanted (yes, we had a -straight from the party store-party since we pulled into town about 15 min before the party). Ben chose Diego! He LOVED his Diego party!!!

 Jackson was so excited for his brother!

 Papa John & Nana got the cake! So cute!

 Trying to be patient...

 Party People: Uncle Morgan & Great Granddad

 Lovin the cake

 Whenever we asked Ben what he wanted for his birthday, he would say "a red present." He got a red one! Sweet boy!

 Jackson was such a big "helper"

 Poor kid doesn't get any attention.

 Leah, Ryan, & Morgan

 We had a Diego pinata!

 Stick the Rescue Badge on Diego

 Tia Leah blowing Diego bubbles with Jackson

 Great Dad is always such a good sport!

 The boys and I went to the park to play with our friends Lindsey & Ava during the graduation ceremony on Saturday. We had such a great time playing with them!!!

 Ben loves his Uncle Morgan & Papa John

From Abilene, we went to San Antonio for a few days. We stayed at the wonderful Hyatt Hill Country Resort (thanks to Pops & GranMartha).We had the BEST time!

When we checked in, they asked how old Ben was. I told the lady he had just turned 2. After we got in our room they had milk & cookies delivered for his birthday!

 My handsome 2 year old playing at the resort pool.

 We pretty much camped out on this little beach for 3 days.

 Jackson was cracking us up on the lazy river. He would lay in his tube and RELAX as we floated.

 Ryan buried Jackson in the sand.

We've loved celebrating our Benjamin this month! Thanks to everyone who has made his bday so special. He is a seriously blessed little boy to have so many loving people in his life!