Happy Birthday Lucas!

Lucas turned 3 on February 10th and it was a birthday party year!

I consulted YouTube to learn how to make the tissue paper poms and I am posting them at the request of my sister. Decorations were sparse, but they generally always are. I like parties that don't leave me all stressed out before they even begin!

Early Friday morning, before Howard went to work, Luke opened his presents. His favorite presents were the clearance toys I bought a few weeks ago. The toys that he was least interested in where the one's I paid full price for - how ironic!

 

 Friday afternoon Luke helped me decorate his cupcakes. He originally wanted a Diego party, but since we couldn't find a cake topper, or even toys to put on it, we scraped that plan. Luke was in charge of picking things out, so we had sports themed plates/cups, and Spiderman cupcakes. He was happy!

 

I forgot to write out the invitations for his nursery classmates, and since I wasn't very motivated to have ten 3 year olds over, we had one family come. We had a nice time and were not overwhelmed.  Our 4 kids and their 3 kids made a nice amount of people for a party atmosphere.

 The day before his party he wanted to pose for the camera. This is his new favorite pose.

January (and a little bit of February)

Howie had a birthday and was crazy excited about his present, a boy's dream - a B.B. gun.

 This was not a b-day party year, so we went out to dinner of Howie's choosing (Red Lobster) and had cake (Angel food). The weather has been great and we've been able to go out into the wooded area behind our house to shoot. It's been fun.

 

 Howard got off of work early yesterday (he's been working long hours lately). We've also had incredible weather, so the boys got some energy out before dinner.

 Just a little while ago I heard a rustling in my bedroom. It's laundry day, so for the few hours the laundry sorter was empty and Dash managed to get stuck. This was a first for him - and too funny not to take a picture. He was truly stuck!

 

 A few days ago Erin wanted me to take some pictures of her and Dash, so I thought I would share those too. We curled her hair in sponge curlers the night before and she felt like a princess with the ringlets all day. Her hair was curly like this naturally when she was little, but now it's straight like mine.