Happy 5th Birthday Ian!!

On March 14th, my last baby turned 5 years old!  It is so much fun watching him learn and discover the world.  He is such a neat kid and I am blessed to be his mama.  I am so thankful to God for blessing us with him at the perfect time.  We got up and headed to church that morning.  We had told Ian, we had a big surprise for him.  The surprise was a big inflatable slide and bounce house for his party!  It was delivered and set up while we  were at church.  He was so excited when he saw it and spent the better part of the day playing.  We ALL had tons of fun celebrating my little buddy!  He had lots of friends and family come to his party and we all enjoyed a Spongebob cake ( I made it with some help from Heather) and ice cream.

I even played on the slide!!

Momo!

Ian and Milo

There's Randy, way up in the corner!

Aaron wrestling with one of the younger boys.

Aaron is always so good about playing with the little kids.  He was getting them organized to play a game.

Kristen made sure she took all the really little ones for a ride down the slide.  Here she is with Jordyn.(my cousin's baby)

Heather and Jordyn

Kristen and Jordyn

Kristen took Jacey one time but Jacey wasn't exactly thrilled about it.

My neighbor, Lisa, going down with the girls!

Kristen and Lil'Rob

Johnny waiting to try it out.....just to give an idea, Johnny is about 6 feet 5 inches tall standing down there beside the slide!

Kristen and John John

Michelle and Lil'Rob

Cake time

Laughing at everyone singing Happy Birthday

BLOW!

Some of the gifts!!

Happy boy!

REALLY happy boy!!

Trying out his new bike with some help from Trey!

There he goes!!

Sissy helped Ian put together one of his new building sets to end the day.

New monster truck pjs!!

I would have to say, Ian had a wonderful 5th birthday!!  He is such a big boy now!

Snowy Saturday Morning!

After all the fun in the snow Friday night we knew it wouldn't stick around long so we were up bright and early to enjoy it while we could.  It was really neat to wake up to all the fresh, white snow outside.  Ian was excited that is was still there so he and I went for a walk to look around the neighborhood.  This was looking out our back door. 

The front....

Ian was happy to see we had made a snowman while he was sleeping.

He was making a snowball!  Guess who he threw it at?

I love snow covered trees. 

A big snowball!!  He threw this one into the water in the ditch.

So pretty!

Melting fast!

Ian said he loved how the snow said "crunch, crunch, crunch" when we walked on it.

When we got back to the house, Randy was ready to come out so we took Milo and Maggie to play in the yard for a minute.  They had more fun in it this morning.  While it was snowing Friday night, they were not happy about going outside at all!!

After we played with the doggies for a bit, Randy and I went for a walk.  When we came back home, we added some finishing touches to the snowman. 

Ian was inside watching us from the window while we were working on the snowman.  When we were done I ran in a grabbed him so we could take this picture.  It really was cold but he was only outside long enough to snap a picture and I ran him back in! 

By around noon or so, the snow had pretty much melted all away.  It was fun while it lasted though and it made some really happy kiddos!!