Can't Forget Daddy's Birthday!

Ok so Dustin seriously thinks he doesn't "count" anymore since the boys birthdays are right near his HA! Little does he know that his is just as if not more important! After all the boys wouldn't be here without him {he definitely tries to remind them of that daily!}

So what did we do for daddy?? We jumped in the car to go to his fav breakfast place... Cracker Barrel, which happens to be 45 minutes from our house. Then we did an impromptu drive up to Pikes Peak. Got some great shots of daddy-o with the boys. 

Its funny how as you get older your priorities change and this was the perfect kind of birthday he wanted. It actually felt good to be "spontaneous" again :)

Happy 2nd Birthday Brody Jack!

Brody Bear's 2nd birthday went off without a hitch. Dustin and I firmly believe in celebrating these early years close to family and not as much friends. It is just SO much work to get everything set up for a party, its expensive and while we will have photos to forever remember the event, we want it meaningful for the boys. The boys just need to be surrounded by love in these early years :)

For Brody's 2nd birthday we did a family outing to Build A Bear where he picked out his "birthday bear". It sings this REALLY cute birthday song and he LOVES it! Blake chose an elephant! After some stuffing fun, we had a fun lunch at Red Robin with our family that was thankfully in town and later in the evening celebrated with cake and ice cream and opening presents.

Where is the cake and ice cream you ask??? Brody SOMEthing made you SO upset that we couldn't even sing happy birthday to you hardly and eventually you calmed down enough to eat some cake. This could explain why I didn't get any pictures :) Maybe when you turn 3 you won't be afraid of your birthday song/cake :)

Ending to a Great Summer ~

We had a great Labor Day weekend with the family! Some time with some long lost relatives in South Dakota... A good birthday party...Fun at the park and at gramma and papa's... And a trip to the zoo!

~LOVE~

How many Blake licks does it take to eat an ice cream cone...4175271823

Can you believe we didn't plan to dress the same!?