Brayden's second birthday part two: Tractor Party!!!

With the arrival of Sterling Grace and all of the hooplah surrounding her I wanted to be sure and celebrate Brayden and his second birthday this year.  So we planned a low key backyard party at our house and invited all of his little friends.  And what else would we theme his party this year but his favorite tractors of course!!!  This made decorating incredibly easy because all I had to do was set all of Brayden's tractors out, tie some balloons on them and voila!  

Brayden is obsessed with playing in water so we decided to have some water fun in the backyard.  My mom bought this big blow up pool when my niece was a toddler and it is still hanging in there.  Brayden for sure had a BLAST playing with all of his friends and they all seemed like they were having a pretty great time too!

Brayden pretty much followed Colten around the whole party!

Sweet baby Evan is only a week younger than S

And what did little S do the whole time???  

Get snuggled of course!  She got held alot but slept alot too :)

If I ever can't find Sterling I know where to look...Aunt Sarah!!!

Grandpa Rehkopf pretty much hogged her the whole party

CAKE TIME!!!

Double Decker cookie cake=to die for!!!

 LOVE these next couple shots of Brayden digging in to his cake!

With Grandpa and PaPa

MaryPat and her two sweet girls

Everyone loves to drive the train except Brayden!

Isabella with her sweet baby sisters

 Once everyone was gone it was time for what else but PRESENTS!!!  It is amazing how good Brayden can open presents now compared to his first birthday!

Get naked and sit on a present of course!

He was probably finished opening all of his presents in about 5 min flat!

Brayden had the best time at his birthday party and we are so incredibly blessed to have such great family and friends to celebrate with! Thanks to everyone who came and shared this day with us!

Thanks also to all of my photographers who helped capture all of these special moments while I enjoyed the party :)

We all were exhausted and after the baptism last weekend and the birthday party this weekend I had a major party hangover!!!

"Happy to you Brayden!!!"

We LOVE you!!!

Until next year....

Brayden's second birthday part 1

It feels like we celebrated Brayden's second birthday for a month straight!  Seriously every time we turned around there was another present for him to unwrap!  Poor guy was sick the week of his birthday, fever, congestion and a nasty cough.  I took him to the doctor the day before his birthday and sure enough he had croup again.  Brayden is usually such an active little boy and we know when he is really not feeling good when he would rather cuddle on the couch all day!  

Brayden RARELY sleeps in the car anymore but fell asleep on this 5 min trip to HEB to drop off his prescription :(

Luckily we went to the doctor the day before his birthday and got him started on his medicine but he was still not quite himself on the big day.  He woke up to presents and decorations which definitely had him distracted all morning.  Since he wasn't feeling well and still had fever, we stayed home at home all day.  

Loving these first two pics!

Loved his homemade cards from his sweet cousins!

What is it?!

A tractor of course!
"whoa!"

After naps Brayden's Aunt Christi and GaGa and PaPa came over for pizza, cake, and MORE PRESENTS!!!!

A pedal tractor!

We are still working on getting the pedaling down but he definitely loves it!

Brayden loves the happy birthday song and still sings it all of the time!  When he sings it, it goes "happy to you, happy to you" over and over again but I have to admit it is pretty adorable!!!  I am pretty sure we must have sang happy birthday about  50 times that day!  

I love this picture because Brian and I are smiling for the camera and Brayden is staring at the cake! :)

We had been practicing blowing on our oatmeal at breakfast for a couple of weeks so when it came time for Brayden to blow out his birthday candles for the first time he had it figured out quick!  We sang to him and relit his candles three times for him to blow out!

And of course, Brayden is his parents child and loves him some cake!!!

 Well we officially have a two year old on our hands and let me tell you he is definitely starting to act like it!