Happy #2 Holden!!

Not sure how it happened, but my sweet second born turned 2 on March 14th!!!  I walked in his room to see this sweet smiles...

 He was so excited to see the balloons all over the floor of his room!

 He started the day with a donut for breakfast...he was in instant love!

 After getting dressed, this boy would not give me any smiling pictures!!!  Stinker!  He still looks cute though!  :)

We took him to Chuck E Cheese for the first time for dinner and games that night and he loved it!  He had a wonderful second birthday!!

At 2...Holden is crazy busy, all over the place, super smiley, a good eater, dog lover, ball thrower, happy, mama loving toddler!!! He is a complete joy and makes you smile being around him by his silly ways.  His strong willed personality is coming through in a big way, but he is happy go lucky at the same time.  He perfectly completes our family of four and we couldn't love him any more!!  Happy #2 buddy!! 

Puppy Party!!

When planning Holden's 2nd birthday party, I immediately thought of his love of dogs and decided a puppy party would be perfect!  I had so much fun planning the fun details to make his party full of all things puppy!  Here is the birthday boy playing in some decorations while I was getting everything ready!

 Here are some pics of how the food and decor turned out...loved it all!!

 The "pupcakes" had paw prints on them!  :)

 For party favors, the kids got to adopt a tiny puppy and take home doggy ears!

 I was going to do a bounce house originally, but since it rained EVERY DAY leading up to the party, I decided it wasn't a good idea.  The backyard was a pit!  Since there weren't a lot of kids anyway...only 4 littles and two older siblings to play with Hudson, the kids had fun playing upstairs before eating.

 Holden has been asking Hudson to hold him lately...love it!

 The birthday boy climbed up on the couch with one of Hudson's game controls.  Silly boy!

 Then he tried to share with Brynlee...so sweet!  He was adamant that he wanted to get in Jen's lap! She definitely had her hands full!

 The big kids eating and being silly.

 Sweet littles eating their lunch.

 Holden LOVED it when everyone sang happy birthday.  When the song was over, he said, "happy" with a huge smile on his face.  Sweet boy!!

 Our family picture attempt.

 Yum, yum!

 Cousin Luke enjoying his cupcake.

 After nap, Holden opened some of his gifts.  He wanted to play with the toys when they were opened, so it took a LONG time!!  

 Sweet Aunt Fern even gave Hudson a gift...love these two!!

Zoo Days

One of our Christmas gifts from Noni this year was a zoo membership...love!  When I saw how beautiful it was going to be on Saturday, February 27th, I knew we needed to get to the zoo first thing that morning! We had such a great morning!  Both boys loved feeding the giraffes...

 Holden's face here cracks me up!!

 This one makes me melt...precious brothers!

 This kid...he cracks me up daily!!  Love him!