Weekend & Birthday Party Post

Friday night we went to Jacoby Yoder's 1st birthday party! He is such a lil' cutie and I can't believe he has been here a year already! Time sure does fly! B was excited to go play w/ all the kiddos too! We got home about 9pm and I still had baking to do... I was going to bake cupcakes for when B's lil' preschool friends came over the next a.m. but at 9pm that just seemed like wayyy too much work & I was exhausted already so we made a chocolate cake instead and went to bed for it to be iced the next morning! B didn't seem to mind.

Saturday morning we got up & B iced his cake and put his own sprinkles on :) lol. He made the koolaid too. He just lovesss to help & be independent. We let him open one gift from us before his friends got there. Three of his friends from pre-school (Joey, Aidan, and Zackary) were scheduled to come at 9am, it was really supposed to just be a play date, but they all insisted on bringing gifts & so we did a little party. B had fun making the treat bags for his buddies to give to them too. It was really relaxed and they just ran around and played. We did cake & gifts. B was so funny after he opened his gifts he went around and shook each of his friends hands and told them thank you! Lol, it was too cute, but I have no idea where he got that at! Their moms all stayed, which was great with me! It made for some good mommy chatting too :). Plus Zacky's mom has a new lil' baby, Ava, and I got to cuddle up w/ her for awhile! His friends left about 11/11:30 and we ran to town to pick up his cake for his birthday party that night. In the meantime Sonya called to say they had the flu and wouldn't be able to make it to his party. He was pretty disappointed! B was ready for a nap, he was worn out from all that playing in the a.m.! Ryan went to the shop and worked on my cabinet/medicine cabinet and on Andon's chest of drawers! None of them are finished, he just built them and then he has to sand/stain/paint them later, but this week is terribly busy for him at work, so I'm highly doubting it will get done! After B woke up from his nap we let him open the rest of his presents from us... he didn't have too much since the trampoline is part of his birthday this year too. He didn't notice or seem to mind though. He really is about the easiest kid ever to please! Soon after my parents and grandparents came for supper (white chili and sandwiches) & then B wanted to do a puzzle w/ everyone. I'm pretty sure he was just as excited about everyone doing the puzzle w/ him as he was about opening presents. Which of course made me extremely happy. After the puzzle we did do gifts and then we did cake AGAIN. I was about caked out by that time! B said he loves being four, b/c it means he is big like Daddy. :)

Sunday I woke up and I'm pretty sure I had part of the flu bug going around. I wasn't deathly ill or anything, but I def. didn't feel good... I'll spare you the details! Ryan & B went to Wal-Mart and got groceries & finished up some last minute shopping (for his preschool party) and also he got to pick out a new toy w/ part of his birthday money. They were gone for what seemed like forever! lol. When they got home we just layed around... for one it was Sun. and for two I didn't feel like moving, let alone doing anything else!

Yesterday I felt better, just a little weak. Last night Ryan was working late and I thought I smelled cologne... I thought B was in the family room playing... I went into our bedroom & he had climbed up on the bed and somehow gotten all Ryan's cologne off his chest of drawers (like 4 different bottles) and had them everywhere! He reeked of cologne soooo bad... it was TERRIBLE! Our whole room stunk and I could smell it all the way to the living room! ugh! He said, "i wanted some smell like daddy puts on". He'll for sure run the girls off w/ all that! HE STUNK! I stuck him in the tub right away b/c it was giving me a headache! After I got B out of the tub Ryan finally got home & said he was even later than he planned on being b/c on his way back to the cabinet shop he almost hit about 17 horses... um yah, ok?! He said other cars weren't even braking so he stopped at the guys house and told him his horses were out... They were inside eating supper and had no idea. Ryan said by the look on the guys face he knew he needed to help round them up, so out in the freezing cold he went w/ the guy and his young sons to get the horses all rounded up and back in the pasture. Luckily they got them all and they were all fine! Ryan said, it was freezing and he just wanted to get home & he didn't want to stop, but he knew if it was his horses he would want someone to stop and let him know! He told me not to blog about that? lol, he thinks it is silly, but honestly, I'm glad that's the type of person I married! He didn't know the guys name, which is surprising, but the guy knew him as "Phil Homer's boy." lol... :) Anyway, I had wrapping I needed to do last night, but some little boy had gotten into my tape and used it ALL to wrap his own boxes up! Oh my! Guess I'll be stopping this evening to get some more! :) He was so proud of those boxes I couldn't be mad! I am very much looking forward to my day off tomorrow!