Mickey Mouse B-day Party!

With us going to Disneyland in just a few short weeks and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse being one of the few shows Ethan will watch I thought a Mickey Mouse themed birthday party was the perfect idea.

Let me set the stage for you. We have a pretty small house so in order for both sides of the family to attend Ethan's party we had it at Jared's work in the gym. I sent out these adorable invitations...

And here is the table...

My wonderful and thoughtful friend Brittney gave Ethan this adorable Mickey Mouse that I used as the center piece.
I made Mickey Mouse cupcakes I had ears for the kids to wear
And treat bags to take home

We played a bean bag toss game that Jared and I made and Jenny made the cute bean bags...
Then we played duck, duck, goose only the kids said Mickey, Mickey, Mouse. This game seemed to be a big hit. Even the older kids enjoyed this game.

Then we played find Pluto's bones. I didn't get any pictures of this game but in some of my photos you can see white bones taped on the wall. The game was like an Easter egg hunt. They had to find 4 bones and when they found them they brought them to me and I gave them their treat bag.


Next we open presents...

Then we sang happy birthday and had cupcakes & ice cream sandwiches. We had a TV with Mickey Mouse Clubhouse playing for the kids to watch while the ate. I think the party was a big hit. I worked really hard on it and really enjoyed the out come. Thanks to everyone who came and helped us celebrate Ethan's 2nd Birthday!

2 Years Ago...

My little boy was born. I can hardly believe that he is two. I know I said that when he turned one but now it's really true. I look at him and he is my baby now more. He's getting so big! We celebrated his birthday last Saturday and I think it was a hit. We had a Mickey Mouse party! I had tons of fun planning and and I think everyone who came had fun. I'll be posting about that later. I've got tons of pictures to share :) As for now I'll leave you with a few picture of Ethan from that past 2 years.

Jared's little helper

Ethan has always been afraid of loud noises especially the lawn mower. But today he over came that fear and became daddy’s little helper. He “helped” Jared mow the entire lawn today. I’m pretty sure it took Jared twice as long but Ethan had fun!

1st Movie

Jared wanted to go the movies so we decided to see how Ethan would do if we took him along. We went to see UP, got him his own seat with his own bag of popcorn and hoped for the best. At first he loved it and really enjoyed eating his popcorn but after about a half an hour he got restless. He got up and down and in an out of his chair, then he wanted to run around so we took turns taking him out into the hall. We both really like the movie and probably won’t take Ethan back to the movies until he’s a little older.

What a helper

Ethan LOVES to help me cook. He loves to help me stir. So one day while I was making bread I let him stir the flour and while I wasn’t looking he ATE it! What a mess!

Then last week I made some peach jam and he insisted on helping me so I gave him a butter knife and let him cut up some peaches. He was so happy to help me!

Fun with Dad

On Labor Day I had a fun day with my mom, sister and a few friends scrapbooking. Jared had the day off and wanted to do something fun with Ethan so he took him to the dinosaur museum at Thanksgiving Point. Jared said Ethan had a lot of fun and really enjoyed playing in the sand and water. I’m so glad I have a good husband to do fun things like this with Ethan AND he took pictures for me!

Let's play catch

One night when we had scouts the boys brought their baseball gloves over to play catch. Ethan thought it was the greatest thing ever and he wanted to play too. When the boys put down their gloves he ran and picked the up and wouldn’t give the back. So when we went to the store that night he came home with this…

his very first baseball glove. He was very excited and made Jared sit on the floor in the kitchen and play catch with for at least a half an hour.

24th of July

This year for the 24th of July we had a BBQ at Jen and Beau’s and then watched the fireworks in Mapleton. I brought some sparklers to the BBQ and Ethan and Addy LOVED it!

We went to watch the fireworks at Mapleton because Ryan (my little bro) is a volunteer fire fighter. We had front row seats for the short, but good fireworks. We were sitting right underneath the fireworks. It was pretty neat!

A few LOs

So I've totally slacked in my posting but I've been busy making lots of scrapbook pages. Here are a few of my favs.

If you'd like to see all of my pages click HERE.

More baby contest pics

I finally got these pics from my mom. These were taken the day of the baby contest. In these first few photos you can see that Ethan really did nothing but sit there and stare at the ladies judging him.

Once he got his balloon though he was all smiles and talk.

Here he is holding his prize

And here is my cute little niece Paycee.