Jayne's 3rd Birthday

Jayne turned 3 this past weekend, THREE! How is my little baby that big? At least I have another small little kiddo so my momma heart isn't totally broken :) We celebrated the day before Jayne's birthday with a little birthday party. We rented a princess castle water bounce house/slide and prayed for sunny weather. Luckily, we got it! It was a perfectly warm day and the kids had a lot of fun!

Friends and family came to help celebrate

We let the kids run free, had otter pops and princess cupcakes and opened presents.

Cupcake face!

Cute little Elle in the background! :)

Paige and the birthday girl!

Getting warm and dry in the sun

Swimming, slides, sugar, friends and presents - I'd say Jayne was one happy birthday girl!

 

 Sunday was her actual birthday. We started of the morning with our traditional pan"cake" breakfast stack. Look how grown up she looks...ah, it happened so fast!

After church we headed up to my parents. We made her cake together there. Jayne had been so excited about this part and was a great helper!

She asked for a "piiiint and purple kitty" cake so that's what she got!

Happy Birthday sweet Jayne. We love you so much!

Elle's First Birthday

Elle's first birthday started off with some cute smiles and a traditional first birthday pancake-cake for breakfast. 

I think it is safe to say Elle enjoyed them :)

Later that evening we opened presents. Thank you everyone who thought of our little girl and sent gifts from overseas!

Jayne was pretty excited about Elle having presents as well ;)

Elle eventually got the hang of ripping the wrapping paper to open the presents. After she finished we just gave her the paper and she played for a while with it.

We loved that the princesses quickly went into her mouth. Silly girl! 

We ended the night with cupcakes. This was Elle's second time with cake (after her party) so this time she didn't waste any time diving in.

See what I mean! 

I can't believe she's one already. I still feel like she arrived just yesterday and I miss those newborn cuddles!

It was a happy day to celebrate with our sweet girl. Happy 1st birthday Elle Marie!

Elle's First Birthday Party

We invited some family and close friends over to celebrate Elle's birthday. It was fun to give her a party for her special day!

  We watched this short video featuring Elle's first year:

Then we opened presents, at cake and visited. It was perfect!

She liked the cake more than Jayne did. She was slow to start but eventually figured it out :) We loved celebrating this little cutie!  

Kaylee's 27th Birthday

"One year older and wiser too..." Lots of great things happened in my 26th year so here's to hoping my 27th is just as great! We did a family dinner on Sunday before my actual birthday where we enjoyed presents and a yummy chocolate ripple cake Phil made! 

Jayne loved helping me open my presents, and even wanted to wear a few of my clothing items :)

She's a pretty cute birthday treat too :)

On my actual birthday I was spoiled with presents, going out for birthday lunch (with my parents and Phil & girls) and dinner out as well. We had a special present at dinner as someone sitting near us saw our little family and that it was my birthday and paid for our entire meal. I honestly was speechless and near tears. Such a small act of service that I'll never forget. After dinner we came home and opened a few presents from Phil and the girls. It was a prefect day. Here's to year 27 with my cute family!

Phil's 28th Birthday

For Phil's birthday we were able to go and do the zip line up at Sundance Resort (thanks Mum & Dad B!) The fall colors were beautiful and I always find it refreshing to get up in the mountains. We are so lucky that this is a just a 15 minute drive from home for us! 

The birthday hunk himself on his special day

We went on 3 total stretches of zip line. Phil and I got to go down side-by-side and we both went as fast as we could! It was fun, especially to go down together!

Here is the view from the top of our final zip line stretch 

It was a fun experience and I loved getting to spend some one-on-one time with Phil. We came home that night and sang happy birthday (much to Jayne's delight) and Jayne and Phil blew out the candles a "few" times :) Happy birthday Mr. B!