Happy 2nd Birthday

Tyler's second birthday included multiple days of celebrations and many many rounds of Happy Birthday being sung.

Celebration Day #1 6-5-12 The night before Tyler's birthday Grandma and Papa came over for dinner to kick-off Tyler's 2nd birthday celebration. We had a pizza party wrapping up the night with cake (1st round of the happy birthday song) and presents from Grandma and Papa .

Loves having happy birthday sung to him

Snuggle time with Papa

Celebration Day #2 6-6-12 Tyler's actual birthday began with overwhelming excitement (from Mommy and Daddy) for Tyler to get his big gift of a new John Deer Tractor (aka death trap).   Tyler has a love for all tractors, fire trucks, ambulances and police cars out there- so we knew getting our little boy a tractor of his very own would be a huge hit (or at least we hoped).  We are happy to report upon the reveal of the "mean machine" Tyler's eye's lit up with excitement screaming tractor and running over to it pushing and pulling every lever and pushing every button he could find.  Lets just say we had one happy little boy....and we were happy parents to see our little boy so excited.   On a side note I would not recommend this toy to any child (or teenager for that matter) even though the recommended ages are 2-5yrs old.  When putting in the batteries this "toy" flew through the backyard going what seemed like 50mph (realistically 5-10) far to fast for a 2 year old.  Let's just say this toy will not have batteries in it for a long time in our house!

After present time we got ready for the day - we have a tradition (2 years in the making) that Mike and I take off work and spend the day doing something extra special with our boy.  The day kicked off with Tyler's two year checkup (I know nothing like going to the dr on your birthday but it just worked out that way) and then off to McDonalds for a birthday morning breakfast of hotcakes and hash browns (Tyler would live off of hash browns if we let him).  After breakfast we headed off to a minor league baseball game.  We had been talking to Tyler for weeks about going to a baseball game and he couldn't have been more excited.  It was a beautiful day and Tyler was a very good boy sitting on daddies lap enjoying the baseball game (as well as the planes and butterflies that flew by) and his french fries (it's his birthday if he wants everything that is fried and potato then that's what he gets). 

The day ended with a nice yummy meal of another of Tyler's favorites - Pasta - at home and ice cream with another round of Happy Birthday sung to celebrate his actual birthday!

Celebration Day #3 6-9-12 Tyler's 2nd birthday party - Paaarrrtyy - The weekend after Tyler's actual birthday we had a celebration with family and some friends.  This year we decided to scale down Tyler's party so that the day was fun for him rather then overwhelming with the amount of people that would be there.  It was a great day with family and friends and I think Tyler thoroughly enjoyed himself.  2 years down....how old are you when you stop birthday parties because they are just exhausting!

Another birthday cake

Nope not french fries - but veggie straws

Another round of happy birthday

Smiles with GG, Sossie and PopPop

Tyler's 2nd birthday celebration(s) was a success!  Thanks to everyone that came out to celebrate and for all the generous gifts.....Tyler is so lucky to have so many people that love him so much in his life.

As you all know I am writing this post almost two months after celebrating Tyler's birthday and he still is insisting on having Happy Birthday sung to him....what have we done!

Happy Fathers Day!

My handsome boys!

Nothing like a sweet kiss from his baby boy to make his day!

2 Months Away

Busy days and busy nights since our last post. I'm sitting here wondering where the heck the past two months have gone knowing that with each week there is so much I'm wanting to document and tell but just not finding the time to do it.  After some gentle reminders that this blog is to not only to track the progress of our lives with Tyler but also to fill the void and boredom of those whose days revolve around checking blogs and getting progress updates - I knew I had to get something on here.

Our time away has been busy as usual.....lots of  laughs, happy tears and of course memories to cherish.  We have done a lot of celebrating of important events including our baby boy's 2nd birthday, the announcement of the addition of another member to our little family and finding out that the new addition was going to be a baby brother to Tyler. 

While we have been MIA the past few months we've had a lot of moments to reflect back on the past two years of life with Tyler and realzing how special each moment has been and how lucky we are.  While Mike and I are not very religious people I can say we feel blessed to have a healthy, happy, funny and lovable boy to wake up to every day and feel even more blessed to be expanding our family with another special little boy whom we know will complete our crew! 



Daddy and his little man



Mommy and her two little men