Birthday Fun - Continued

In the midst of everything else that I promised myself I'd get done today, one of the top on my list is finishing Augie's Bday blog! If you've already ready the last one, this one will cover the actual birthday and the second party that he got to have with all of his and mommy's friends.

We'll start with the actual birthday. That is actually a lot shorter. He woke up and got to spend the day with his Grandma 'Raine and G.G.G. (Great Grandma Gates) while Mommy and Daddy went to work. He was a little more sleepy and less playful than normal. We were really hoping that he would pep back up for the party on Saturday though. We still had a family dinner, a birthday cupcake, received some of our gifts (some really cool John Deere monster trucks from Grandma 'Raine and warm PJs from Mom and Dad), and got measured before bedtime while wearing our new PJs. (We'll measure every year on birthdays - for all of our little ones! We even made our board portable for when we move to Moffat!)


Come time for the party, we hung the decorations, put out the food, prepared the gift table, and were ready to celebrate.


We decided to use our monster truck tractor from Grandma 'Raine as the cake topper this time! It turned out very nicely!!!

Our friends arrived, and shortly after, Augie was quite upset. He was tired - after already taking 2 naps. I knew something was wrong, but unsure what it was at that point. So, we let him sleep while the rest of the party went down to the park for a few minutes to play.

When we all got back, we woke up our little birthday boy and continued the celebrating!
All of the kids found something to play with . . .

including each other . . .

the hose reel . . .

and, of course, Ellie . . .

We found time for a quick family picture . . .

Prepped ourselves for some more cake eating . . .

(which didn't go quite as nicely as the first time since Augie felt so "off")

We opened LOTS more gifts - finished up for the day - and got ready to go to bed.

We spent a nice Sunday with Grandma 'Raine and GGG before they had to go - took some more pictures:
with the family . . .

with Grandma 'Raine's old fire truck . . .



with our new moose shirt from Grandma 'Raine - and our new "bomber jacket" from Tia Vicky, Tio Leo, and the kiddos . . . such a COOL KID!!!

and with some of our other gifts that we haven't said thank you for yet . . .

Our AWESOME new chair from Gamma, Pops, Tia Marci, Uncle John, and the girls . . .



THANK YOU ALL!
We had it shipped to the wal-mart by our house so it was a little less to travel with, and it ended up being a double present . . . it came with a "play house" made by Daddy! . . .
complete with window (that doubled as a door at times) . . .

DOUBLE THANKS!
And the new work bench from Mommy and Daddy - we're still slowly learning how to enjoy this one . . .



All in all, Augie made out like a bandit! We are quickly putting clothes away that don't fit anymore so that we can make room for all of the great new ones we received. And we have converted the den into a play room - and thank goodness for that . . . there are more than enough toys . . . and less nice things to break than in the main living room!!!

We are EXTREMELY BLESSED by all of the things we have - with a wonderful home, friends, family, and son!!!
THANK YOU LORD!!!