Mikey Is Four!

I can't believe I have a four year old. I also can't believe that his feet are only the length of my toes smaller than mine and he's less than two feet shorter than me. My boy is growing up!

Double Birthday Party

Last Saturday we threw a combined birthday for the boys since their birthdays are a week apart. We held it at Apollo Park and we were so grateful that it was such a nice day and the kids had so much fun. Mikey wanted a dinosaur party because he is pretty much obsessed with them right now, and Riley wanted a basketball party.

My talented sister made their cakes. They were the hit of the party.

We had a bbq for the guest. Michael just likes making the flame go really high : )

Riley wanted to feed the ducks as soon as we got there

The boy buds eating

Cousins eating

We got the kids two pinatas, Spiderman and Mickey Mouse, so everyone would get a chance to hit. I promise Mikey liked the pinata better than this picture shows

Riley swinging his hardest

Riley enjoyed the fact that we said yes to hitting something with a bat

Mikey taking his swing

Kids swarming for the candy

The kids were wearing the parts of the broken pinatas as hats

Mikey thinking he's climbing a tree ; )

My friend took the blowing out the candle shots for me because I couldn't get a good spot

Classic cake face

Cake face #2

Riley has never asked me to go down a slide with him. He loves them.

Riley is fearless at the park and he scares me to death, but I love him!

Only picture Mikey let me take

Feeding the ducks/geese crackers from the bridge so they wouldn't attack : )

We were so blessed to have so many friends and family come spend the day with us and the boys were spoiled rotten like always. It was a great day!

This Little Kid Is Two!

Mikey Loves...

Babies. Especially his new cousin Olivia.

Book Signing

My sweet dad braved the crowd of over a thousand middle schoolers to get his grown up book nerd of a daughter a couple autographs. He is the best! Since there were so many people and he already had waited a couple hours just for Shannon Hale's signature, he didn't go to the other lines and I TOTALLY understand. But he took a lot of great pictures for me and I am SO SO SO grateful for a dad who would do anything for his daughter!

Brandon Mull signing books. He wrote Fablehaven...and definite MUST READ

Shannon Hale. If you haven't read her books you need to start. It doesn't matter how old you are!

Shannon Hale signing my book!

It was a little embarrassing presenting these books to an author and letting them know I didn't buy their book new, but you know me: I love getting a great book at an awesome library sale : )

Basketball Champions Again

Another rec league basketball season in the can. Is that a saying? Anyway...Michael's team won the championship again and went undefeated. We all had fun cheering him on and the boys loved watching daddy play basketball. Great job team!

Welcome Olivia Grace McWhorter

My camera took this horrible picture in the hospital lighting but we were blessed to get a beautiful new niece on Sunday April 24th. Olivia Grace McWhorter was 7 lb 14 oz and 21 inches long. We are happy to have a girl on that side of the family : ) Congrats Aly, Kyle, Bradley and Carter!

Underwear Dilemma

Riley has been going on the potty a couple times a day. No major potty training going on, just getting him used to it and then we'll go full swing when he turns two. But he's really proud of himself and he keeps sneaking into Mikey's room and trying to put on as many pairs of underwear as he can. Love that kid!

Easter Weekend

Michael had a half day Friday so we took the kids to Chuck E Cheese and pizza. They always love that place!

We do Easter Bunny on Saturday at our house. These are the boys after the Egg Hunt. I took video of the hunt, but no pics. I love Riley's smile when he lets it loose.

The boys have enjoyed the nice weather and our silly swing on the front tree.

Easter morning we walked out our door on the way to church and found Easter Eggs all over our lawn. What a nice surprise!

My boys have a hard time posing for pictures. Our whole family actually matched, but I didn't get a family picture. And, we dyed Easter eggs but Riley was such a handful, I didn't get pictures of that either. We had a great weekend and it was nice to see the boys have fun but also recognize the true meaning of Easter and hear Mikey be so excited that Jesus Lives!