Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...
Happy Friday! To round out the birthday posts (yes, I know his birthday was a week ago!), I wanted to put together a little (err…big) collage of my favorite photos from the past year. Just a little photo walk down memory lane of the past year with Maxwell…
Clearly I have no ability to narrow things down! I can’t help it – I just love to see how much he’s grown! Which one is your favorite?
Have a great weekend!
Continuing on with the 2nd birthday party coverage…
After a yummy hat-wearing lunch Maxwell got to open all of his super fun presents!
His first stop were the two packages from Mrs. Susan and let’s just say they were a HIT!
She got him some Superman pj’s with a detachable cape!! I think someone might have been a little jealous! 🙂
She also got him an AWESOME fire truck that lights up and makes fire truck noises. Maxwell LOVED it and had to go get his fireman hat immediately!
He got lots of other sweet and wonderful gifts from everyone like new clothes, Dr. Seuss books, a VTech computer, a giant sticker book, new toys for the sandbox, DVDs and even a ride on bumble bee! This little boy is fixed up in the toy department!!
After presents it was time for cake! I got the cake from Olexa’s again and it was worth every penny! yum!
Maxwell has been practicing blowing out his birthday candles for weeks now. He’s been so excited about it. I guess all the excitement was just a little too much though because when I came out with the lit candles and everyone was singing to him, his little face went from pure excitement to fear! He didn’t want those candles anywhere near him!
Poor buddy! I think it was all just a little overwhelming. After a little hug from Dad, he was doing much better…
We were happy to see a smile again!
I cut up the cake…and here’s my 32 week bump in all it’s glory if you’re curious!
While Maxwell didn’t want to blow out the candles on his cake, he sure did want to eat it!
I think everyone enjoyed the cake eating part of the party!
After lunch, the cousins played with the new sand toys in the sand box for a bit…
and then it was time to bounce off all of that cake!
Please note that picture in the middle of his face smooshed up against the black netting! cracks me up!
After lots of energy was spent, it was time to say “bye” to everyone!
Or maybe that’s actually more like “help!” 🙂 Either way, it was a GREAT day and we’re so happy that so much of our family could be there to celebrate the big TWO!
Maxwell, I hope you had the best birthday party a little boy could hope for. We love you so much and can’t wait for another year of adventures!!
Bring on the terrific two’s!!
We had a big weekend around here and we’ve got a big week coming up! First, today is Maxwell’s first day of school! Let’s hope he does great in his new older toddlers room with his new teacher! Second, Maxwell’s 2nd birthday is on Thursday so lots of fun birthday posts to come this week! Third, we celebrated Maxwell’s birthday on Sunday with a family party centered around – what else – yellow construction trucks!!
Here’s the invite I emailed to family…
And here’s my sweet birthday boy ready for his party!! Boo-boos on his chin, knee and shin and all! My rough and tumble little 2 year old! 🙂
I got his shirt off of Etsy and it came in about two weeks ago and Maxwell has been SO excited to wear it! Every day he would want to peek into his closet at his truck shirt…but he knew it was off-limits until his party! He couldn’t wait to put it on that morning!!
Like last year, I had to make things festive and I like a good theme to center the decorations – some yellow construction hats, orange cones and plenty of balloons of course!
I even got some special eating utensils for Maxwell…
So cute, right?! I think he might be eating every meal with those for a while! I did forget to hang the awesome “Happy Birthday” banner though! darn! remind me to hang it next year, ok?
We gave Maxwell this truck that morning and it barely left his hands all day…
and the proof is in plenty of the pictures!
The only thing that took him away from his truck were the balloons of course!
He was a happy little boy!
We loved having most of our family over but definitely missed Mary Beth, Holland, Keath, Jen, Delaney and Nate!
Before lunch, we had one more surprise for Maxwell…
A bounce house! Those 3 cousins bounced and bounced and bounced in that hot sun…
until they were red-cheeked and ready to eat!
When it came time for lunch, fortunately everyone got into the hat wearing spirit! What can I say? I definitely think hats make a party more fun! 🙂
But the Birthday Boy looked cutest of all in his hat, of course!
I think that’s enough for today. Party coverage continues tomorrow! Until then, I leave you with this awesome family photo that we captured…
ha! Hey, it was his party – he could do what he wanted!! 🙂 See you tomorrow!
Hi everyone! Hope you had a good weekend. Ours was great and involved celebrating family birthdays as well as seeing some old friends. Pictures to come this week! Today I have some new family photos to share with you all. I had Lauren of Piper Photography come out about a month ago to snap some photos for a little project I’m helping a friend with and just had to get her to take some family photos while she was here. These are my favorites…
Maxwell’s serious face…
and Maxwell’s silly “cheese!” face…
I love this one but want to reach into the picture and pull his shorts down in the middle SO bad!
This is a good one…
and this one was the real winner I thought. and it’s now on the sidebar of the blog…did you notice that on Friday?! 🙂
We then took lots inside. These are two of my favorites…
Maxwell makes me laugh in that last one! She also took a lot of really neat pictures of the inside of the house which I will happily share with you once my friend’s project is up and running!
If you live in Birmingham and want a good photographer, definitely check out Piper Photography! You can see some of the other photos she’s done for us here, here and here. I love Lauren!
Happy Monday all!
Hi all! Hope you had a good weekend. Our was mostly good…minus a few crying episodes and one big boo-boo!
The weekend started off right on Friday when I had this for lunch…
Yum. Made with tomatoes and basil from our backyard, it was delicious. Inspired by this post from a great blog. (one of my faves).
Saturday morning brought bagels…or tiggles as Maxwell kept saying! Whatever he wanted to call them was fine by me because he was one happy camper!
We actually had Robert’s sister and brother-in-law staying with us for the weekend because they had a wedding to go to in Birmingham. Robert’s parents were also planning to come over Saturday afternoon before the wedding to see Maxwell for a bit. We were hoping that Maxwell would get a great nap in and be well rested to see Lou Lou and Granddad. Yea, he had other plans and decided not to sleep and to throw a fit for about 2 hours instead. Holland was at the house for all of that and I definitely think we convinced him that he doesn’t need kids anytime soon! We finally got Maxwell up after a whopping 30 minute nap and hoped for the best!
Luckily he did great all afternoon and got some quality time in with Lou Lou and Granddad.
We were ready to put him to bed early that night and went through the normal nighttime routine which involves Maxwell turning off his lamp. I have no idea why, but right after he turned it off, his little hand went straight for the lightbulb. Robert and I pulled it off within half a second but the damage was done. That bulb was hot and his poor little hand was burned. We spent the next hour and half getting him calmed down and keeping ice on his hand. A long afternoon followed by a long night!
When he woke up the next morning, his hand was definitely worse than I thought it was going to be. Look at these terrible blisters!
He’s been such a trooper about it and hasn’t mentioned his boo-boo too many times. Hopefully it will heal up fast! and, yes, I’m getting a new lamp for his room asap.
Sunday Maxwell got to (literally) hang out some more with Mary Beth and Holland…
and play with some Play-doh.
We then even got to see GJ and Daddo as they stopped by for a quick visit on their way to AR!!
We love visitors!!
It was a fun family-filled weekend with just a few rough patches. Hope you all had a good weekend!