For Elliott’s first birthday, Kristen planned and put together for him a super cute “The Big One”-themed birthday party. (Think fish!)
And Elliott’s cake smash video:
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Joel worked on plans for months and months to check off a “bucket list” item of doing Deep Sea fishing off the Oregon coast with some coworkers. Those plans came together on Friday, June 8, in a Halibut fishing trip that was scheduled to go 30 miles offshore. Here’s how the trip unfolded:
We did a 3-year photoshoot for Joshua at the Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival down in Woodburn. While we were at it, we snagged a few pictures of Elliott (just a bit over 10 months at that point) and some family pictures too! We took 1117 pictures to get these keepers – such is photography with busy little people!
We’d also done our 10-month photo shoot for Elliott a bit closer to his 10-month birthday. He sure is cute!
You know that you picked a winner for the theme of your kid’s birthday party when the parents have a funny moment at the party connecting about how that particular TV show has a song for every major experience or emotion that your toddler will experience. For Joshua’s 3-year birthday party on Saturday, we did share some great laughs with other parents about how we sing Daniel Tiger’s songs with our kids about “It is good to be kind” or “Try new foods ‘cuz they might taste Goo-ood!” — or my personal favorite, “If you have to go potty, STOP and go right away!”
Daniel Tiger is a recent animated refresh/throwback of the Mr. Rogers Neighborhood show from decades ago. While Joshua’s screen time is limited (Kristen is an elementary educator, after all, and she’s seen what too much TV does to a kid!), this is one of the few shows that he does occasionally get to watch. And he does love it! The show has great characters, great songs, and great simple lessons for kids. And it has lots of concepts that transform really well into opportunities for a birthday party theme. Kristen did a really great job imagining and reimagining ideas and turning our house into a great “land of make believe” for Joshua, his friends, their parents, and our families.
We wish you all a Happy Resurrection Sunday! The concept of Jesus’ resurrection is something we’re not totally sure that Joshua fully understands yet, but we still had a delightful time with all of the fun festivities that surround this Easter holiday anyway!
We saw the Easter Bunny. Elliott was not a fan at first, but he did come around.
We did some fun family pictures at home too.
We decorated some eggs too!
We opened the Easter cards that we received in the mail.
And we ended the week at Grammy’s house where we did lots of fun things!
- Making Resurrection Rolls (bread dough wrapped around a marshmallow, which melts as it bakes, so it ends up hollow inside!)
- Playing with the horse
- Decorating more eggs!
- Doing a Community Easter Egg Hunt
- And a family Easter Egg Hunt
- Checking out the contents of the eggs we found
- And just being cute!
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