Easter

We went with a "sweater vest" esthetic this year!

{notice Bennett's shirt didn't even make it into the building tucked in ... oh well, such is a 3 year old boy - right?!} 

Lunch out with Grandma ... silly boys!

Bennett got a fun Easter basket from Grandma! How can you beat Chuggington, Pooh Bear and Hot Wheel cars?! So perfect!

After everyone had a nap, we headed over to Grammy and Papa's for Easter part 2!

Bennett's Easter basket was a dump truck that was promptly emptied of all it's contents to be played with.

John-Paul's basket was filled with ducks and toys and the sweetest little lamb!

 Auntie Brittany was more than happy to play with John-Paul's new toys with him!

Dinner was outside.

As was the egg hunt.

And this last picture ... well, I can't stop laughing every time I look at it so I just wanted everyone else to see it too!

Seriously ... what is he thinking? His face is so funny!

Anyways, that was a bit of our Easter... but of course the most important part of Easter you can't take a picture of because the tomb is empty... He's not there!

Thank you Jesus for loving us so much that you became our Passover lamb!

Bennett's 3rd Birthday {Part 2}

Part two of celebrating Bennett's 3rd year was on his actual birthday ... the 22nd of February.

We had quite the day!

Once Bennett decided on what he wanted for lunch {Hambergers, french fries and ketchup - his words, not mine} we were off to In-n-Out and then to Adam's work so eat lunch with Daddy!

After lunch John-Paul fell asleep on the way home so Bennett and I had some alone time for building trains and watching Chuggington before it was nap time.

For dinner Bennett picked his favorite foods - Salad, Ice cream and blueberries {No joke, he would eat salad at every meal if we let him!} so we prepared a salad bar complete with everything one would need for either a cobb or a chinese chicken salad ... it seemed to be a big hit will all the party attendees!

 

After dinner was presents ... the best part of any birthday party of course!
Here he is with the "inside" presents!

Once the inside presents were done we all had to take a trip down stairs for the last two gifts of wonder! It was absolute 3 year old wonderland ... a sand box and bike!

While dessert was being served Bennett got in some good play time with his new toys ...

{Yes, the above picture is Darth Vader and  Luke Skywalker hugging ... Bennett has learned from Adam that they are father and son, thus they must hug each other - right?! Right!}

the droids were put in charge of driving the pirate ship

Happy Birthday was sung only once this year and a good time was had by all ... especially Mr. Happy himself, John-Paul!

We remembered to take pictures of Bennett with most of his guests for the evening ... but sadly not all of them! 

If you can believe it, there really is one more celebration ... stay tuned for part 3
{If you missed part 1 make sure to check it out!}

Crazy Blessed!

So a while ago {July to be exact} I won a fantastic prize!

I was very excited to say the least but I decided to wait to redeem said prize...

And I am sooooo glad I did!

Please enjoy my favorites from my prize! :)

My friend Leslie took all these incredible pictures ... check her out here