Allen's Birthday Party

Since Drew's birthday party is in one week, I thought I might want to get Allen's party pictures posted!!

On Thursday night, October 8, we had Allen's birthday party with a few friends. It was a "Two-Two Train" party, complete with a train cake (made by Daddy, of course!). Dinner was Chick-fil-a nuggets and fruit - Allen's favorite! Allen's friends Nate & Kenley and Jack & Joey (and their parents) came over to help us celebrate and Nana and Grandaddy were in town too. The kids had a great time running around in the backyard and playing in the playroom - chaos! Allen really enjoyed himself and seemed to think it was pretty special that it was HIS party!















After our friends left, Allen got down to the serious business of opening family presents...he couldn't get them open and out of their packaging fast enough! We will definitely be notifying Santa that all Christmas presents should be unwrapped and out of original packaging at our house this year!

I bet your pumpkin patch doesn't have...

...what our pumpkin patch has!

Bright sunshine and 100+ degree temperatures...

An Old West town...

Saguaro cactus...

Pumpkins "growing" out of hay bales (replenished by a guy driving a forklift containing a large box of pumpkins...)

Lassos...

"Cows"...

Golfing practice...

Little cuties mining for "gemstones"

Family visiting from Indy!

Hay bale maze...in the desert...where do they get the hay?!

You may have a hayride, but you don't have these views...

...or get to be pulled by mules...

"Hi mules!"

Hayride fun...




More cute kiddo pictures from our day!


"This one Daddy!"


We did have a great time at the pumpkin patch, even with the heat! The kids enjoyed it and we came home with a lovely pumpkin! We couldn't convince any of our kids to partake in the horse rides and they weren't overly interested in petting the farm animals either. Oh well...maybe next year!

How do I always get so far behind?!

It's the pictures...I get too wrapped up in looking at every photo before I decide what to post...and that takes time! So I'm behind...again! I need to post Allen's birthday party and his 2-year check-up stats and a multitude of random cuteness...AUGH!
But, no time now. I am picking up the house and getting it cleaned up for Auntie Maggie and baby Elizabeth's arrival this evening! The boys are so excited to have them here for the weekend! (Hopefully Uncle Jim will make it tomorrow, if the flights work out!) And we can probably stop calling her baby Elizabeth, but it lessens the confusion since Drew has a good friend in Knoxville named Elizabeth and we have to distinguish between the two and that's what she's been for so long...the baby... I have a feeling she might rock the boys' world this trip...from our phone conversations I'm pretty confident she can rival Allen in any battle!

Happy Birthday Allen!

Thursday, October 8, we celebrated Allen's birthday. It is so crazy to think that it was 2 years ago that we brought the (rather large) baby boy into this world! He has grown so much and is a joy to have in our lives!
We started our day with donuts and a candle followed by a trip to the zoo. Nana and Grandaddy were in town to celebrate with us and we had a great time wandering around, seeing animals and playing in the children's area.