You've Had a Birthday, Shout Hooray!

Well, despite my efforts and feelings on the matter, Sydney decided to go ahead and turn two today!  She has been practicing being two for several months, but today it is official! She is obviously a little confused on her age, because when asked how old she is, she holds up two or three fingers (depending on how well they are cooperating at the time) and says "three!"  I will say to her, "can you say two?"  "Three!"  I suppose we will get there!  

Here in Illinois we celebrate Columbus Day with a day off of school, some people even get the day off of work!  So, we took advantage of that and made a trip to the Pumpkin Farm to celebrate Syd's birthday.  We took a trip through the corn maze (this had Sam a little nervous) and we made it out!  Then we looked for some pumpkins.  The weather was perfect and we had a great time!

We also found this cute pig out among the pumpkins, he didn't like being called cute however!

After our trip to the pumpkin farm, we had some Elmo cake and Sydney opened some presents. Steve and I are still adjusting to this little girl thing, but we had fun looking at all of the "girlie" toys.  The boys were especially cute when searching for the perfect gift for their favorite little sister.

I think Sydney's favorite thing of all was this card from Grandma!  She kept opening it and looking at the pictures.  Thanks Grandma!

Halloween Fun

Sherry asked for Halloween pictures, so I dug through old pictures and found some goodies. 

Here is Dr. Spencer and his patient...

Spencer is too cool for the girls...

There you go Sherry, those were fun to look through again!

Another walk down Memory Lane

When Sam had his birthday, I posted some of my favorites of his pictures.  Since Tyler just had his birthday I thought I would do the same for him.  It has been a lot of fun to look through my pictures of him.  What a cute kid!  Why do they grow so fast?!!  By the way, pay no mind to the pale, tired looking lady in the first picture. 

This picture of Tyler with the apples was taken by my friend Carrie and is one of my all-time favorites! Priceless!  Thanks Carrie

What brotherly love!!!

Okay, so I can't say that this picture is really a favorite, as in fact it brings back really horrible memories, but it also reminds me of a really brave little boy!

Spencer took this picture!  He is our resident photographer.

This picture is classic Tyler, look at that enthusiasm!  (That wasn't even his gift, he's just super excited for Spencer!)

Gotta love that boy!

A Big Day for Tyler!

Tyler had a big day on Saturday!  Not only was it his birthday, but he was also baptized! And he played a soccer game as well (may I put in here that he played awesome and scored a goal!!!  This made his already overly-emotional mother cry!)

Tyler and his cousin Tyson.  These two boys are just two days apart in age.   Jenni and Jim came down for Tyler's baptism on Saturday, and then we all went up to Wisconsin for Tyson's baptism on Sunday.  What an awesome way to spend the weekend.

After a wonderful baptism, we had a barbeque at our house.  I wish all of our family could have been here, but we were very grateful that Grandma and Grandpa could come out, and grateful once again that Jenni and Jim live so close, what would we do without them?  We had a lot of support from good friends and members of our ward as well, I was amazed at how many people would give up their Saturday to come and be with us!  It was an awesome day!

Happy Birthday Tyler!