Happy Birthday Daddo!!  Hope it’s a great day.  Can’t wait to see you after Christmas!!  For your birthday, here’s one of your favorite pictures of baby Maxwell…

ha!  Still makes me laugh. Hard to believe that was 2 years ago!

Also, happy birthday today to cousin Savannah!  I know she’s so excited to be 2!  🙂

Finally, finishing the week with a little iPhone dump…

Have a great weekend!

After plenty of visiting, it was time for lunch and cake.  Lunch was some pork and turkey from the newly opened Urban Cookhouse in Crestline as well as some rice and green beans made by me and deviled eggs made by GJ.  The cake?  The cake was by Olexa’s and it was just as good as it always is!

See that one cupcake with orange icing?  A special request from my orange loving 3 year old!

Thanks for getting that awesome picture GJ!

Spencey didn’t know what was coming but he was excited anyway!

Luckily he had big brother to help him blow out that candle!

We put the cake in front of him and he took a few little bites at first…

but it didn’t take him long to really dig in…

and then start double fisting!

Yep, I’d say he was a big fan of the cake!  yay!

Meanwhile, everyone else was enjoying the cupcakes…

and Maxwell gave his orange one a big thumbs up!

After cake came presents!  Well, actually after cake came a bath for Spencer but then presents!  Not surprisingly, Spencer had a lot of help from Maxwell when opening his gifts…

Poor baby hardly got to touch anything at first!  But, he got himself up in there and got his hands on those toys!

Thank you everyone for all the sweet gifts!  Toys, books, bath toys…it’s good to be Spencer (and Spencer’s big brother!) these days!  After presents, the big kids headed outside to play.  I peeked out there and saw these three stooges up to all kinds of adventures…

and even though Spencey had new fun toys inside, all he wanted to do was get outside with the big kids!

The birthday boy gets what he wants so outside he went! And he even got pushed around by all the big kids!

I’d say it was a pretty good day for Mr. Spencer!  Thanks again to all the family that made the trip!  We loved having you here to help us celebrate!

Happy Birthday Spencer!

For Spencer’s first birthday we had a little family birthday party, just like we did for Maxwell – here and here.

Decorations were easy with wrapping baby and balloons…

and a display of all of his monthly photos!  I loved looking at them all together to see how he’s changed…

We tried to get Spencer to wear the 1 crown…

but that lasted about 2 seconds before big brother snatched it off his head!

Crown or not, the birthday boy loved having everyone over to celebrate his big day!

Not so sure how he felt about that choke hold!  🙂  Still, he got plenty of loving from everyone…

Maxwell loved getting to play with Katie and Anna…especially when Katie nicely agreed to play fire trucks!

and Maxwell also loved getting to do his favorite activity – jumping on GJ!

While I think everyone enjoyed getting to visit for a while…

I know they were all ready for cake!  Especially Spencey!  Come back tomorrow for some major baby cake face!  🙂