Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Birthday Boys



 Jaren turned 4 this month.  Time has really flown by.  Our little daddy long legs has gotten so big.  Because I am a slacker, I forgot to document the beginning of his birthday.  He went to itty-bitty ball in the morning and then Marci, Wyatt, and Finn met us at home for lunch, playing, and a movie.  It was great for Jaren to get to spend a little time with one of his best buddies on his special day.  Libbie had a semi-final game that evening so we went to her game followed by take-out from Chick-fil-a.  Parents of the year :).  Luckily Jaren is still easy to please.  All he wanted to do for his birthday was eat cake and have peanut butter and jelly. 
 


 Libbie was quite excited to pick out a bowtie and suspenders for Jaren as a gift.  Not too sure if Jaren is completely thrilled about it :)
 Jaren is by far THE BEST person to get gifts for.  He squealed with delight on every gift and had hilarious/cute things to say about everything. 
 Here he is blowing out the candles on his "Turbo"cake.  Mallory pointed out that "Turbo" mostly looks like and old man.  I think she's right.  But hey, I tried. 

 Jaren did not actually touch his cake or ice cream..  He only ate that giant blob of fondant we pretended looked like Turbo. Eww.
 Here Jaren is looking quite sassy in his new bowtie and suspenders from Libs.
 
The next week, it was Nathan's birthday.  He's getting quite old.  He's also fairly easy to please on his birthday.  He had breakfast muffins for breakfast, went to work for an insane amount of time, and then ended the day with manicotti and breadsticks for dinner.  It's all about the food for us these days.  Sad, but true.  And I love capturing moments like this when I think, "Holy crap. We have a lot of kids!"  All the chaos, and all the fun. Love both our March birthday boys! 

 
 Tyce was excited to eat the wrapping paper.

Celebrating Love

 We kicked off Valentine's a little early with some minute-to-win-it games for FHE.  Mallory and Jaren are racing to see how many chocolate kisses they can unwrap with gloves on.
 Mallory and Claire racing to see who can get the most conversation hearts in the bowl with chopsticks.
 Dad and Mia doing the same.
 Libbie and Jaren competing.
 Valentine's Day wouldn't be complete without our heart-shaped pizza dinner.  Jaren was my helper.

 We're ready to dig in.
Libbie took no less than 20 pictures of Nathan and I this night.  This was the best we could get. Nathan has a serious blinking problem. 
 Our smallest Valentine.
 Our weirdest Valentines.  Love them all to pieces.

Jaren and I got crafty this year around Valentine's. Here are our creations. He thought it was pretty cool to make a craft.