Well we started the celebrations Friday with Colby. His mawmaw, pawpaw, and cousins came in that night. We went out to eat and hung out at the hotel some with them. Colby was so excited to be with his grandparents, cousins, and aunt. Colby loves his Shelbi and Maggie. Its been so neat to see them grow up since they are stairsteps. They are now 3, 4 1/2, and 7.
Saturday ofcourse was the big party day! We woke up early to get all the last minute details completed. His party started at 10:30 so we had lots to do. Austin's parents and sister got here around 9:30 and helped us finish setting up. The girls were able to keep Colby busy too which was nice. He had been waiting so long for this party and was anxious for guests to arrive. Around 10:30 everyone else started arriving. I directed the kids to go ahead and go swimming since we didn't know how the weather would hold up...plus this way they could get their playing out and then we could eat. They all seemed to love the kiddie pool and water. We also rented a spacewalk...our original order was a spacewalk/slide combo which we thought would be perfect for Colby's age group. But apparantly something happened to that one and they brought us the firetruck slide instead. The slide was really too big for 3 year olds but it all worked out. The girls really liked it and I think all the 3 year olds tried it at some point. The kids played until a little after 11 and I told everyone it was fine to eat. People started fixing their plates and enjoying the food. We had Chickfila nuggets, finger sandwhiches, spinach dip, corn dip, chips, and a fruit tray. Once everyone got fed and the kids had more time to play it was cupcake time then present time. Colby got into the cupcake part and singing this year. He definitely enjoyed that more then the previous 2 years. He still wasn't very interested in the present part. maybe that will come next year. It always seems that the first thing he opens he just wants to play with and could care less about presents. He opened a car and that was on his mind. He got a lot of cool and different presents. I was glad he got a variety and not just all trucks haha! I am so thankful for our friends and family who showed up to show this little man how much they love him. We definitely had more kids at this party then any others b/c he actually has friends now! The kids were: Baby Aidin (7 Months), Baby Jonathan (8 Months), Colby (3), Kiley (3), Cameron (3), Max (3), Braden (2 1/2), Shelbi (7), and Maggie (4 1/2). It was a lot of fun though having so many of his friends there to celebrate with us.
That night we continued to celebrate after napping and went downtown to visit with Austin's family again. We ordered pizza and once again the cousins ran around enjoying some time together. It was cute to see them play alone. Colby played with them some at the party but had so many other people to hang out with it was good they got some 1 on 1 time with him.
Sunday was his real birthday. He woke up to presents from mommy and daddy. We had already given him his big present the bike but he woke up to a bunch of "Cars" stuff. He was quite excited about that. We went to church like usual. We brought him donut holes to share with his class at church. He and the other kids enjoyed that. We only stayed for Sunday School though due to that night being the first night of VBS. It was nice though to come home just the 3 of us and have some down time. We went to VBS that night. This year I am preschool director. My job is just to check on all the preschool classes and make sure everyone is where they are supossed to be. I mainly assist in Colby's class though since they are the youngest. Colby's class is still under the nursery and is only open to worker's kids. There are only 3 kids in his class Zoe (1 1/2), Colby (3), and Emily (4).
Saturday ofcourse was the big party day! We woke up early to get all the last minute details completed. His party started at 10:30 so we had lots to do. Austin's parents and sister got here around 9:30 and helped us finish setting up. The girls were able to keep Colby busy too which was nice. He had been waiting so long for this party and was anxious for guests to arrive. Around 10:30 everyone else started arriving. I directed the kids to go ahead and go swimming since we didn't know how the weather would hold up...plus this way they could get their playing out and then we could eat. They all seemed to love the kiddie pool and water. We also rented a spacewalk...our original order was a spacewalk/slide combo which we thought would be perfect for Colby's age group. But apparantly something happened to that one and they brought us the firetruck slide instead. The slide was really too big for 3 year olds but it all worked out. The girls really liked it and I think all the 3 year olds tried it at some point. The kids played until a little after 11 and I told everyone it was fine to eat. People started fixing their plates and enjoying the food. We had Chickfila nuggets, finger sandwhiches, spinach dip, corn dip, chips, and a fruit tray. Once everyone got fed and the kids had more time to play it was cupcake time then present time. Colby got into the cupcake part and singing this year. He definitely enjoyed that more then the previous 2 years. He still wasn't very interested in the present part. maybe that will come next year. It always seems that the first thing he opens he just wants to play with and could care less about presents. He opened a car and that was on his mind. He got a lot of cool and different presents. I was glad he got a variety and not just all trucks haha! I am so thankful for our friends and family who showed up to show this little man how much they love him. We definitely had more kids at this party then any others b/c he actually has friends now! The kids were: Baby Aidin (7 Months), Baby Jonathan (8 Months), Colby (3), Kiley (3), Cameron (3), Max (3), Braden (2 1/2), Shelbi (7), and Maggie (4 1/2). It was a lot of fun though having so many of his friends there to celebrate with us.
That night we continued to celebrate after napping and went downtown to visit with Austin's family again. We ordered pizza and once again the cousins ran around enjoying some time together. It was cute to see them play alone. Colby played with them some at the party but had so many other people to hang out with it was good they got some 1 on 1 time with him.
Sunday was his real birthday. He woke up to presents from mommy and daddy. We had already given him his big present the bike but he woke up to a bunch of "Cars" stuff. He was quite excited about that. We went to church like usual. We brought him donut holes to share with his class at church. He and the other kids enjoyed that. We only stayed for Sunday School though due to that night being the first night of VBS. It was nice though to come home just the 3 of us and have some down time. We went to VBS that night. This year I am preschool director. My job is just to check on all the preschool classes and make sure everyone is where they are supossed to be. I mainly assist in Colby's class though since they are the youngest. Colby's class is still under the nursery and is only open to worker's kids. There are only 3 kids in his class Zoe (1 1/2), Colby (3), and Emily (4).
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