A Fun Birthday Weekend!

We enjoyed a great weekend celebrating Dylan's 4th birthday! Russell's parents, Joana & Marisa came in town on Thursday night to visit. So that made his birthday even more exciting!

On Dylan's birthday, he had preschool that morning. Afterwards, he went with Russell to run some errands and pick things up for his little party that we were going to have on Friday evening. But Dylan just could not understand why it was his birthday, but no cake until the next day. So Russell let him pick out a little cake to eat that day. His only concern was that it have a "4" on it!! It was so cute that he was so excited about everything this year.

We had church that night so we decided to give him his drums before church. The drums were from my parents and us so they came over and secretly set them up in Dylan's room without him knowing. We then told him to go to his room to see his birthday present. This was the look on his face when he saw them!!!! Very excited!

He didn't know what to think. It was so funny! He went straight over to them and starting playing. I think he played for a solid 30-45 minutes until we had to get ready for church!

Russell's family came in that night so that finished out a very exciting birthday for him! On Friday evening we had his "Cars/Lightning McQueen" birthday party. It was just family but we had a great time. He was showing off his new age while admiring his cake.

Here he is blowing out the candle!! Such a big boy, he was having a blast!

Now it's Monday and I am exhausted! During the excitement, we had to take our little Maddox to the urgent care yesterday to find out that he has croup! This is not the first time he has had it, so we knew what to do. But you just hate for your little ones to be feeling rough. He is getting better, thanks to the steroid they put him on. We actually got decent sleep last night after not having any for the last couple of nights. Whew! the weekend is over!! Hope it was great for everyone!!!