G's Cars Birthday

 Grady's birthday fell on Good Friday this year, and so by default, it turned into a two week long celebration. First he got to celebrate with his Grammy and Aunt Mandy when they visited. Then he got to have a class celebration before Spring Break. Next up was the big party at our house, and finally for his "real" birthday, we were up in Kernville with my parents for Easter.

He was so cute when everyone sang to him at his school. He was this adorable mix of embarrassed/happy/proud. It was fun for me to see him in class since I don't usually get to take/pick him up from school! I went out on spring break before him, so it worked out perfectly!

 

Grady had informed us months before his birthday, that his 4th birthday would be his "Cars birthday." And so it was. We had found this small, race car themed, jumpy house online for a good price, and we just had to get it for him (spoiled, we know). We decided to let him open it the day before the party to make sure that it fit in the backyard and so that we could have everything ready to go. Both he and Kendall love it!

 

 

 The party was Sunday, March 24th. We had lots of fam & friends over for a fun Cars party!

 

 

 

Craft table- design your own car!

Grady has a mind of his own- he came out of his room wearing a big cowboy hat &  elf slippers, and he pretty much rocked them for the rest of the day.

We really owe our cousins Brian & Meghan for all of the Cars donations they brought. Brian works for Disney and was able to bring a pinata and tons of toy cars for the kids to all take home as party favors!

opening gifts!

It was a great party! We are so lucky to have such a sweet, thoughtful, energetic, creative 4 year old. We are so very proud of him and love him so much! Kernville and Easter to come soon...

 

 

 

 

Catching Up...

I've got some catching up to do here... blogging has become tough to keep up with lately! So here's the rest of Feb. & some of March...

Spring pics at G's school- all ready in the morning!

Dani's 7th bday party at Chuck E Cheese

A trip to Sea World!

18 month check-up for K- she had lots of fun with the auto paper towel dispenser!

Being silly with Mama's new phone.

To start off our Spring Break we had a visit from Grammy and Mandy! The kids were thrilled to have them here. We had missed them! Grady and Grammy have such a special bond. He does not let her out of his sight whenever she's here. I'm sure they left our house exhausted!

 

We went to an inflatable slide/ bouncy house place and the kids loved it!

 

They also got lots of snuggle time. 

 

 

K went through a period of about 2 weeks of not sleeping well at night- this pic is how we all felt for some time. Turns out she maybe wasn't feeling so well- more on that later. I did think she looked cute here though sleeping in her oatmeal.

Presidents Day weekend

Thursday February 14th, the kids woke up to this (and yes, we know they are spoiled).

They went to Lisa's and Grady got to have his first Valentine's party at school (which he was super excited for). As soon as school was out, we headed up to Murrieta to spend the night with Grandma and get ready to drive up to Kernville (the pinecone house as we now call it). Unfortunately, Derek couldn't join us because he had work on Friday and his bball team had a big game- they ended up winning their league- yay! We did our own V-day a few days earlier.

It was a big weekend in Kernville. It was Whiskey Flat Days, a big celebration with a parade, festivals, food, reinactments of the "olden days," etc. In the town where we usually see maybe 20 other people, there was probably over 1,000 people! It was crazy!

Parade time!

Jeff & I took Grady to the kids carnival while my mom watched a sleeping Kendall, and dad & Kenzi went on a lunch date :) 

G had a blast- and we had a good time watching him!

 



 

Later we swung by the Mitas' place and had a quick tasting from their new winery! Delicious!

 

On Sunday we went to check out the encampment, where they renacted the local camps from the 1800s. It was very cool! The kids were into it too.

 

They loved pumping the water and grinding the corn. 

After the encampment we headed up to the snow. Crazy that we could drive 20 minutes and experience such a big change in temperature! This was K's first time in the snow, and she wasn't quite sure what she thought. She loved the sled, but didn't love the cold. She lasted about 10 minutes, but it was a fun 10 minutes!

Grady on the other hand loved every minute. He had such a great time with his cousins making snow boulders, sledding down the hill, and throwing snowballs!

 



Monday morning before we left, we rode quads at the track. Again, G loved it! What an exciting weekend we had! It was action packed, and lots of good memories were made. Thank you Papa Mike & Grandma for having us at the pinecone house. We were so glad to get to hangout with Jeff & Kenzi and the Mitas fam too! We went home exhausted- a sign of a successful weekend!