Sam's 3rd Birthday Party

Only time will tell if it was necessary, but since my due date with baby #3 is 9 days after Sam's birthday, I decided to have his birthday party a couple weeks early.

This is the first year I let him pick what kind of party he wanted. Obviously a 1 year old can't tell you and although I'm sure he probably could've told me last year, I went with his obvious obsession, construction vehicles.

So this year, I asked what kind of party he wanted. He told me "a red party." I thought that was kind of strange and boring, but that I could work with it and have red food, all red decor a big red 3 birthday cake, etc. Then I started thinking about another one of his obsessions...the movie Cars. The firetruck in Cars is named Red. Good thing we got things clarified because he did, in fact, mean Red the firetruck, not just red the color.

On to the pictures...

The invitation

The cake

The friends & gifts

Grey's favorite part


The fam (minus AJ - Aunt Julie - we missed you!)

What's the Best Part of Baking?

Is it Three Years Before Something Becomes a Tradition?

I guess I took yesterday off from blogging...
Everyone ok with that? Alright, good.

We've been trying to decide what Christmas traditions we want to do with the boys. So far, we're thinking:
-open one gift on Christmas Eve, which will most likely be pajamas (a friend of mine did this growing up, I always wanted to open one gift on C.E. so this sounds like a compromise)
-taking the kids to get a pic with Santa...this is spear-headed by my mother-in-law and this year it went great...last year, notsomuch.
-bake a cake for baby Jesus (this year, it'll be a "cahaaaake wid m'n'ms!!!"
-Christmas Eve, go to the C.E. service, come home and open the one gift, get in PJs, hot chocolate for Sam, coffee for me and Bob, nothing for Grey just yet and we'll drive around looking at lights
-praying for families who send us a Christmas card (this isn't meant to exclude, it's just helpful to show the kids who we're praying for)

I think that's what we're looking at for this year. What about you? Any cool traditions you and your family do/have done in the past?
My friend Tyler also blogged about traditions. Honestly, he beat me to the punch and he's a lot funnier than I am anyway. That's why I didn't tell you about it until the end of this post.

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