Griffin's 2nd birthday~ Choo-Choo!

All aboard Griffin's party train!





















Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear GRIFFIN, happy birthday to you!





Pretty ladies~ Ms. Jenni and sweet Brea

Griffin got his first kiss from Amie. She would kiss him and he would put his head on her shoulder. Already loving the ladies.



Griffin flirting with his friend Natalie. I told him to hug her and he then signed kiss. Too cute...


Present time!







Wow, what a day! Saturday the weather was beautiful. It was the best day of the year! Griffin had over a few peeps and they celebrated his birthday Choo-choo style. I arranged for a train to come over and ride the kids around the neighborhood. Everyone, including the birthday boy loved it! I was a little iffy if Griffin would even get on it. Boy, was I wrong. He rode the train with whoever wanted to ride with him. He was such a joy and played really well with everyone. I was a little unsure if he would want to share his toys with everyone, but it was no problem. Thanks to Kenton and Big Poppa for putting Griff's swing set together in time for the party~ it was a hit! The kids loved playing on Griff's pirate fort.

When it was time for cake Griff was a little hesitant at first. Once we started singing he was in his glory.

Once everyone left and we all settled down Griffin opened his gifts. He was totally into unwrapping everything. He was very excited to play with all of his new loot!

I am so happy that everyone had fun. Thanks to everyone who came over to help the little guy celebrate his 2nd birthday! I love nothing more than to plan very special birthday parties for my little guy!

Let the BIRTHDAY begin!

I think that birthdays are very important. Everyone has one special day out of the entire year to celebrate life! When I was a child I celebrated my birthday for the month of May with celebration after celebration. Needless to say I am passing on the tradition to my children! We started singing "Happy birthday" to Griffin about a week ago. Saturday morning, the morning of his birthday party we gave him his new play kitchen. This was from MiMi and Big Poppa. Griffin loved it and has been cooking up a storm every since! It was really funny. He had on Kenton's Phillies baseball cap or "Dad-dee" or Griff calls it. All of a sudden he took off the cap and pretended in the sink to wash his hair. We were a little confused by this. We later put it all together. When Kenton fixes Griff's hair he wets it in the sink. Gotta love that boy!

Daddy's little helper

Daddy and his favorite little helper.


Dirty face from all of his hard work.

Studying his mentor's work.

Griff must have been on a break.



Just me and my dad...

Measuring on the tape measure

Griff~ king of his castle!

Finally, spring is in the air! We have many projects going on right now at our house. We are trying to get things together before the birth of our little Peanut. Currently on the agenda we are having a fence installed. Last week the brick posts were installed. Tomorrow the brick guys are coming one last time to tie up a few odds and ends. Due to the crazy snowstorms in the North our fence has been a little delayed in getting to us. It may or may not have been shipped out on Friday. The deadline for the fence project that I had in my head was this upcoming weekend. Boy, are we going to cut this one close! Tio Juan, (my brother) along with his assistant (MiMi Kat) scored and stained the concrete on the patio. This weekend Kenton started to put together Griffin's outdoor play set. We have had it since Christmas, but this was the "chosen" weekend to start the project. According to the instructional video, yes this beast comes with a VIDEO, claims that it is about 31 man hours of work to assemble. Kenton worked on it all day yesterday and Big Pop came over and was his co-captain today.

Today we spent the afternoon in the back yard. The guys worked on the project, I worked in the garden, and MiMi ran around with Griff. Griff was so excited when he realized that his new play set had a picnic table. He sat and enjoyed his juice and snacks at his new table. Once they installed the ladder to get to the 2nd floor he could not be held back. He climbed up the ladder and was SO excited. The look on his face was enough to melt all of us. He sat up there with Kenton for the longest time "helping" out.

I am so excited about our back yard. I just know exactly where we will be spending the majority of our time during the warm months!