Ryan's Birthday Celebrations

So you've probably noticed that things have gotten slightly busier around our house with me working full time, being mommy full time, Colin working full time, going to school full time, and being daddy full time. So, I apologize for this post being over a week late!
Anyway, we did celebrate Ryan's Birthday last Saturday and here is some proof. We had a nice little family thing at our house. Ryan chose pizza for dinner and then we had cake and ice cream too. He got lots of presents and has really enjoyed playing with everything this week. Ryan with his spoils and a balloon. He was excited about the balloon and very good about waiting for Aunt Katie to open his presents.


I did let him open this one before Katie arrived because let's face it, how do you wrap a 5 foot by 5 foot rug?




Starting in on the gifts.



Can you tell how excited he was to get some dinosaurs from Nana?

And isn't that the cutest backpack ever?
He loves it. Wanted to take it everywhere for about three days.



opening gifts


We gave him a train track set and a bunch of trains that magnetize together.




Daddy and Ryan had a great time putting together the track.



He had a wonderful day and those train tracks and dinosaurs kept him busy for nearly two hours. I was so amazed! We celebrated with my family at Sunday dinner the following day but I forgot my camera. Jess gave him an outfit that is of course super cute. Grandma and Grandpa totally spoiled him of course. He got a train for his track that is battery operated. He didn't let go of it for at least 48 hours straight. They also got him a huge Tonka Dump truck. And my dad hand made him the cutest stool. I need to take a picture of it.





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