PICTURES from the weekend

FINALLY got my pictures resized to share so here they are.

Cayden's Sunday School teacher Esther came over & taught me how to decorate a cake. She was so awsome. Our friend Jessica came over to learn with us! It was alot of fun, here are the process pics. One side chocolate, one side vanilla:

base coat of DELISH cream cheese frosting:

first side of the race track:

Completed cake, (2 and a half hours later) :) It was so fun to learn how to decorate a cake, the grass tip was quite the work-out but it looked CUTE!

Cayden got to open a few presents early on his birthday morning. Grammie & Papa got him a fishing pole.


Hope and Cayden were so excited to see each other, they were glued together the entire weekend:

the adults at his party (minus a few that were inside)

Cayden opening gifts.....he was spoiled rotten.

It was so funny to watch, he'd stand up to get a new present to open & move to a new spot to open gifts and they whole clan of kids would follow & hover around. It was so cute!


That's right, excited over a can of beans (our friend Lorisa has been telling Cayden for a month that she was going to give him a can of beans). When he opened it he held up the can & said "oooh, look what I got"

Cayden & Hope still glued together:

The sign I made as well as the cake & cupcakes:



Kael & Alex playing:

singing happy birthday - Cayden would NOT smile & stared me down, I think he would have cried if he looked away (every birthday party for the last year when we sing he crys - maybe its just my singing??)

The Wall Cousins (including Ryan & Laura's addition BRUTUS)


We had the boys dedicated on Sunday.

Our family with Pastor Bruce

The dedication service was beautiful! We are so thankful for our church home & family!

FUN WEEKEND!

WOW- we had a really fun weekend with Cayden's 3rd birthday party, and on Sunday we had both of the boys dedicated. We had alot of family come to visit & celebrate with us! It was great. I'm going to be working on getting pictures up in the next few days! :) Thanks to those of you who came to celebrate with us! We really enjoyed ourselves & hope you did too!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CAYDEN!!

My big boy is 3 today! WOW - where did the last 3 years go? I'm so proud of my little man, he's so smart and kind. I just can't believe he's 3 today. Grammie, Papa, Autie Steph, Charlie, Hope, Alex, Uncle Ryan, and Chance are all here. :) Its been a fun morning and its gonna be a fun day!

We have a bunch of friends & family coming this afternoon for his party, food & cake! I love birthday's and parties and any reason to get together! And its even more fun to celebrate Cayden's birthday!

I went down to his room this morning to check if he was awake & he was pretending to be asleep. I went in & said "IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY!" and he sat up & said "It is?" and I said "yes, your 3" he said "I AM?" and ran upstairs and told everyone "ITS MY BIRTHDAY" :) He's loving his big day. He opened a couple special gifts this morning and has been begging for his "birthday" (he wanted his cake out on the counter to look at)

Okay, I better go get stuff ready! Just am so excited that my big boy is 3!!!!

BISMARCK

We're headed to Bismarck today with our friend Lorisa & her son Kael. Can't wait to get some shopping done! :)

Yesterday

We did a Bismarck run, and got most of Cayden's birthday party supplies, his gifts, some household necessities and a few groceries. Wal-mart was a little crazy with both boys so we decided to just do our shopping for groceries in town, its just getting too hard to do the motherload shopping trip with BOTH boys in tow. UGH!

We were able to have a nice lunch at the Olive Garden though. YUM!! Cayden kept saying "Daddy, I like this olive garden" It was cute!

Off to do my mountain of laundry, clean the house, finish C's birthday party invites & hopefully get some buns & breadsticks made for the freezer!