A little blue truck birthday for Ollie

Ollie's birthday weekend has come and gone. After rescheduling from Saturday afternoon to Sunday afternoon, we finally got to celebrate with family and friends. Hope you enjoy some of the pictures from his party.  A couple of decorations and a peek at the slide show that was rolling the whole time.

We made this replica of the truck from The Little Blue Truck book and used a photobooth app to take fun shots of everyone.

All of the food was themed of course...chicken feed, slop, farm fresh veggies, country lemonade, tire donuts, etc. Melissa did a great job putting it all together.

Here is a look at some of the desserts as well as a frame that we made out of an old pallet and some chicken wire.

More of the decorations...

This is me reading The Little Blue Truck to the whole crowd.

Melissa came up with some fun crafts for the kids and adults.

Oliver got some help from one of his best friends Sammi to open his presents.

Singing happy birthday to Ollie.

Blowing out 2 candles...

And feasting on the cake...

Ollie had a great day and we're so proud of our 2 year old. Man that sounds weird.

Oliver's 2 year pictures

For the next couple of weeks we are the proud owners of a 3 year old and a 2 year old. Due to the sub zero temperatures and mounds of snow we headed over to the Krohn Conservatory to snap Oliver's 2 year old pictures. Ollie was coming off of a pretty bad cold, so you'll notice that in most of his pictures his mouth is wide open because that is the only way he could breathe. He did a great job and we had fun as a family checking out all of the beautiful trees and plants...but we think Ollie was still the best thing to photograph that day. Enjoy.

ollie is 21 months today

We have now lived in our house for one year and this past year has gone by so fast. Pretty soon we will be the proud owners of a 4 year old and a 2 year old...but before all of that happens, here is Ollie's 21 month shoot. He face planted on the wooden corner of our banister. You'll see his war wound, but as you can see he is a happy little boy. Enjoy!

October was here and quickly gone...

Although the month of October is one of my favorite months of the year, it is the busiest month for our family and so it goes very quickly!  So quickly that we do not have time to put up regular blog posts.  So here was our October.  In between crazy schedules we enjoyed some fall fun. Charlotte really enjoys decorating and this years decorating day was lead by Charlotte herself.  She did a great job helping me inside and she did the outside of the house with a little help.

A couple of weekends ago we went to Shaw Farms to pick pumpkins.  We met Grandpa and Gibby and got to ride a hay ride (best deal in town), saw some animals, played at the farm and Charlotte got to take a farm train ride.  She was thrilled as you can see.

Later that evening we went to Grandpa and Gibby’s house for dinner to carve pumpkins.

On Halloween night Grandpa, Gibby and Tiki came over to partake in our block party with neighbors.  Charlotte and Oliver were Elsa and Olaf and not to be out-shined, Gibby and Tiki were scarecrows!  We had a delicious dinner and then all the kids took off for trick or treating adventures.  Charlotte knew exactly what she was doing as she had already trick or treated at preschool that morning.  Oliver just thought we were taking a walk with the whole neighborhood.  As soon as we walked up to the first house and he saw that he was getting “treaaaaaats!” he was off and didn’t slow down.

We had a very busy month and got to do some really fun things as a family.  Now it is November first, it is snowing and we have banana bread in the oven!  We welcome November and some lazier schedules!

-melissa