Father's Day and a Birthday!

Okay, first a bit of normalness--here is a picture of me with Kelsey in our new shirts.

One day, everyone was dressed in brown but me.  It was cute.

 I had the privilege of making all of the arrangements for celebrating Joshua's 3rd birthday as well as celebrating Father's Day.  I wanted to make sure that everyone got the proper recognition and love, even though they had to share the holiday.  Here they are with their gifts: Josh got a coloring book and counting cards while Steve got a new (fitted--since he lost weight) Sunday shirt and a handsome work shirt.

 Steve got to choose our meal and dessert, but since we wanted Josh to feel special too, we called everything "Birthday ___"  For instance, here we have "Birthday pitas"....

 ...a "Birthday picture"....

 ...and "Birthday Apple Pie!"

This is the time Josh was born.

 The following week was pretty normal, though Josh would come over to me and say "It's my birthday!"

 On Friday, we decided that we would take a special trip downtown.  Since traffic is atrocious, we haven't been spending a lot of time downtown, but our purpose in going was twofold: we heard that Garrett's Popcorn was drool-worthy (which it WAS!) and we wanted to try out Pizza Persona again.  We loved both stops and the kids did pretty well too!

 Saturday the 23rd was the day that we planned Joshua's party.  We sent out about a dozen "Monstrously Fun!" invitations, and made monster cupcakes.

Party balloons!

We loved having Emilia, Avery and Carter come for the party.  They were excellent guests!

Here we are coloring party hats for "Pin the Hat on the birthday boy"

 Here is Emilia being blindfolded.

 Carter came the closest.

 After playing Red Light, Green Light and shooting hoops for prizes, we sat on the floor in the kitchen where we ate our monster cupcakes.  The kids all mostly liked licking the icing off, but they were a hit!

Happy birthday Joshua!  We are looking forward to the next many many years that we get to celebrate with you!