Gifts part two

So after dinner Justin still had the majority of his gifts to open so we decided to let him go ahead and do that. He had so much fun. As soon as he saw a fire truck or car he would be done until he could play with them for a little bit and then would go back to opening the gifts. My favorite part is every time he would open a gift and see a fire truck he would go woo wooo woo like a fire truck or if he saw a car he would go vroom vroom. He made out like a bandit let me tell you. We even had to enlist Kailee to help because there were so many gifts. Not to mention cards. He got a ton of cars and trucks, more fire trucks than I can count, clothes clothes and clothes. I can finally say for once he has his own toys and not just that but BOY toys. Poor guys has been playing with Kailee's old stuff and even her Barbies and dolls LOL. It'll be nice to go through their toy room and get rid of all the baby stuff to make room for his big boy toys. After he finished opening all his gifts him and Kailee had some cake and ice cream. Then it was in the tub and in the bed. What a great ending to a great day.

Sunday Pictures

Today we did family pics at Sears. Justin fell asleep on the way there. No surprise there. I think no matter what time I schedule pictures he's always going to fall asleep on the way there. I think the moment he realizes he's the car he decides to take a nap LOL. I can't believe the kids are 2 and 4. Time sure does fly. I wanted to make sure and get pictures of the kids now before the next couple of weeks which are going to be nuts. We get there right on time. And she tells us to go in the room and as soon as she says that up walks a customer to get his pictures. Ok anyone whose ever been to a studio knows you can't make kids wait especially two year old little boys. We ended up waiting 15 minutes while she helped him. Paul and I were slightly irritated cause we knew what was to come... We did go ahead and take another family picture even though we just did one in December. We even took pics of us alone with the kids. Kailee I mean I couldn't ask for a better person to have pictures taken of. I swear the minute she sees a camera she just lights up and starts posing. She truly loves having her picture taken and always has the best smile. Even the photographer kept commenting on how pretty she was, how beautiful a smile she had, how she just poses so perfectly, how she wishes she could just take pictures of her all day. :) And that's when her job turned from fun to oh boy. Justin had been playing out with Paul while Kailee had hers done. I thought that would keep him occupied so that when it was his turn it would be smooth sailing. Haha I was soooo wrong. So here he comes in immediatly clings to me, grabs hold of my leg and tells the lady NO! I was like oh great so much for getting a picture of him. Well she brings out the #2. Steps back and says wow he's quite a bit taller than our 2, which he was LOL. Justin decides lets push it to see what happens. BAM it falls apart and lands on the ground. So we pick it up tell him no. And, BAM there it goes again before she could even step back behind the camera. I'm thinking why me. LOL He does it again and again and again. So I say ok just forget it lets see about getting the two of them together. Again he grabs hold of me almost knocking me down and tells her No! So he sits on my legs Kailee's on the lower part of my legs and here we go. First Kailee smiles, Justin doesn't. Kailee smiles Justin pretends to steal her nose, Kailee smiles Justin steals her bow off her head. Kailee smiles Justin bangs the red ball he's been sooo attatched to since getting there on her head causing Kailee to say "that's it I'm done." So we go back out to the lobby wait about 15 more minutes before we can view our pictuires. Surprisingly she was able to get Justin alone standing with the #2. How in the world I have no idea. Kailee's look amazing. I LOVE them. I mean once I saw hers I knew we were in trouble even with our coupon. Poor Paul :). Our family picture is ok. Hey it has all four of us and JP has a smile. That's about all I can ask for right. The one of the two kiddos is hilerious. JP has a big smile cause he just snatched her bow and Kailee has a little half smile. Again what can I say. So after today I'll agree with Paul no more studio pictures for a while LOL. We then we and got the kids a happy meal. We promised Kailee if she was good she could get one. We knew she would be LOL. So they were happy and we just drove around. Got home took a nap and that was our Sunday afternoon. Here's a sneak peak. Of course the quality isn't that great but at least you can see what the kids look like.

SUCCESS!

Wow what a successful party. Justin's 2nd birthday couldn't have been any better. We sure do have some amazing friends and family that's for sure. Talk about a great time, great people, and good food. After the party was over I just looked and my first thought was wow we have been truly blessed with an amazing set of friends since moving here. All of Paul's buddies from work and their families came and they were so generous. Some even brought food. The kids had a BLAST! Paul put up the kids play house that TMO broke and lost all the hardware to and what a hit. All the kids jumped on it, played on it, slid on it, you name it they did it. I don't think any of the kids were in the house longer than to grab a juice or to eat. We had about 13 kids all together. Kailee and Justin even got to see their friends Cora and Brody who they haven't seen in about five months. You would have never thought though. They got along like they always have. The guests started showing up around four, that was followed by food, and the kids were begging to do cake so we went ahead and did cake. What fun! There were four cakes to choose from and all the kids of course were super excited about that. :) After cake and ice cream all the kids went back outside and before you knew it it was already 8:30. Justin was super wore out and tired from not napping and from playing the entire time so we didn't get to open gifts with all his friends. He did open 6 gifts after his bath and we decided to save the rest for in the morning. What an amazing birthday for our little guy.