Emma's 3rd Birthday

 Our cute little girl turned 3!  Her latest love is babies, so she got a few baby accessories and had a baby birthday party.

 Her fun new dollhouse, she is so excited!

 We made pink baby cupcakes for her baby party.

 Her cousins brought along their babies to the baby party.

 We had some baby friendly finger foods for lunch.  Baby oranges, baby carrots, grapes, olives, edamame, and a baby sandwich.

 Cute little babies of their families eating their lunch.  They got to decorate the table while waiting for their food.

 Yay!  More baby stuff!!

Happy Birthday to our adorable little girl, who is not so little anymore!

Payton's Birthday Party

 For Payton's Birthday this year he wanted to have a water party! So Megan made him an ice cream "cake" that looked like a swimming pool.

 We set up a large piece of plastic and some PVC pipe and made our own big slip-n-slide.

 The kids had a blast on it! (Payton's facial expressions are the best!)

 And the adults were able to enjoy it too!

We had a few different water activities set up for the kids including a kid pool, squirt guns, and water balloon toss.  It was a lot of fun!

Payton's Birthday - The Party

For the party portion, as usual Megan went overboard on the planning, but the kids had a lot of fun. We invited all of Payton's cousins to come, so we had kids ranging in ages 0-9 years. When they first got there we had a craft table set up for the

kids to make their own monster. They were quite creative and we had some very cute monsters in the end.

After they were done they could go over to Marcus and get a snow cone (just like Mike and Sulley had in the Himalaya's)! Of course this was a huge hit, the kids and adults were begging for seconds.

Next we played pin the eye on Mike. It was pretty fun to watch the kids blindly try to figure out where it went. Ren got his eye to closest.

Then we brought out The Cake! Payton was very excited when he say it and thought it was pretty cool. After we sang to him he took a chunk out of the corner of it, it was pretty funny. We are discovering that he is not so much into the cake as he is the ice cream, but he did like pulling the fondant off and just eating that.

Last but not least we opened presents. Megan tried to keep Payton from being swarmed by the other kids as he opened each present by letting only the people giving the gift come to him. They all sat in a circle really well.

A couple of the cards Payton got played music when you opened it. He thought it was so cool that he walked around the entire circle and held it each kids ear so they could hear it. It was so dang cute!

Overall Payton had an awesome birthday and he had lots of fun. Thanks to all the family that came and for all the great gifts. We may need to move into a bigger house so we can fit them all, but Payton sure does love them! :)

Payton's Birthday - The Cake

Payton turned three this year! His latest obsession was Monster's Inc., so that is the theme we chose for the party.

For the cake we wanted to make a really cool one with Mike Wazowski on it (because he is Payton's favorite).
After watching the Ace of Cakes show, we figured it would be easiest if we used some sort of fondant to cover it.

So we baked the cakes and frosted them with cream cheese frosting (buttercream didn't sound too appealing to Megan).

Next Marcus made a white marshmallow fondant (with a recipe Megan found online) and we covered it with white, then he continued to make a green so we could make Mike.

We rolled it out and cut out the piece to make his body, arms and legs, then did a little details with just some black frosting.



Overall the cake looked pretty cool, but we learned that working with fondant for the first time is not the easiest thing.

Payton's 2nd Birthday!

"Tractor Digger Trucks!"

For Payton's Birthday on June 30th we had a construction themed party. Everytime we would drive by construction he would yell out "tractor digger trucks!" We invited all the family over for cake and ice cream and had all his cousins decorate their own construction hat with stickers. It was lots of fun. He had fun opening all of his presents, but he didn't like that as soon as he opened one we took it away to have him open another. He wanted to keep playing with each new toy.

Megan made his birthday cake to look like there was "dirt" on it and had the digger on it too. When he first saw it he got all wide eyed and thought it was pretty cool. He grabbed the digger and tried to shove the shovel part into the cake. It was very cute.