Lincoln's Birthday "party"

Happy Birthday to this sweet boy!

Lincoln turned two on Sunday. It is fun that his birthday was on Father's Day this year. I figured I could be cliche and get Seth a tie for Father's Day - but it made it totally worth it and much better to give Lincoln a matching one for his birthday. These two guys got to share their special day together.

Since church is our later in the afternoon, Linc always gets a later nap. But we celebrated with some presents and cake before bed.

A new truck, power tool, and a T-ball set - what more could a little boy wish for!?!

Okay, okay, a new water/sand table from Grandma and Grandpa Burke sure topped off the birthday! Scarlett and Lincoln have spent time with it each day since, I'm excited it will provide endless hours of entertainment as summer continues on.

I was lazy again, and didn't make a birthday cake. He enjoyed blowing out the candle, again and again and again. The tres leches cake was yummy too! 

 Doesn't this last photo just say everything about how good the cake was!?

Happy Birthday Sweet boy. We Love You!!

Seth turns 30!

Happy Birthday Seth!!! We wanted to make this birthday a special one since it's a new decade and he just graduated from Grad school.

I had been wanting to get Seth something extra special for this birthday's present, and a graduation present. Back in February I had started brainstorming what we could do, to make it a memorable one.

Originally I wanted to rent an exotic car for him to go driving in, and have a fun day out. But I quickily found out that was impossible to do, the closest thing to that would be going to Vegas. Where he could drive an exotic car around a track twice, get a T-shirt, photo for $400. Maybe another time.

After more research, I decided on surprising him with a day of off-roading in Moab!

On Seth's birthday, the kids and I visited him at work in the morning with donuts and a few of his favorite snacks.

I switched him cars, and while Scarlett went to a birthday party, Lincoln and I went out and got his car detailed inside-out! It was so gross from our 1,400 mile road trip from the week before. (plus Lincoln threw up a few times in it) This was a nice surprise for him when he got home from work.

Lincoln got quite bored during the process, it was way past his naptime! The cars could only entertain him for so long

Seth's parents mega surprised him and came back into town!! They could not have timed it more perfectly. When he got home from work at 4pm, they literally pulled in the drive way right behind him! He was so confused! We were already so lucky to see them when the flew out for his graduation ceremony, and then when we went to Illinois/Iowa for Seth's cousin's wedding. So this was a fun surprise!

We went out to dinner at Texas Roadhouse, and Seth rode the saddle and they sang to him.:) What a stud.

Saturday afternoon we had a BBQ and friends came to help us celebrate. It was a birthday/congrats bash, so glad we were able to do that! It was really nice having his parents here for that party too, they were a great help in the preparations.

We ate good food. The kids bounced in the bounce house. He blew out candles. It was a success!!

Happy Birthday Seth!

Aquarium and Backyard fun

We are grateful the nice weather seems to be more permanent lately, like it's finally safe to say winter/spring is gone and summer is here to stay. We found a good deal on a fun little power wheels and Lincoln has been trying to get the hang of it. He did have quite an ordeal running into our big "bench swing", but no blood yet. Just bruises.

 I absolutely LOVE, love, love this photo of Lincoln.

Monday, after the graduation weekend, we took our first trip to the aquarium before we had to take Grandma and Grandpa Burke to the airport. The kids had fun, there were some neat exhibits. I was surprised how many spots are open/exhibits with no animals yet. There were plenty enough that I don't think it's fair they are charging full price admission. But, that's alright. At least Adobe provided the free tickets for us this time.