We had three birthday celebrations for Kyler's 2nd birthday. We started celebrating the weekend before his actual birthday on Saturday evening. We had a "family" party, where we invited both of our families over to celebrate. Everyone came over about 5:00 and we started with a dinner of pulled pork sandwiches, fruit, cheesy potatoes, and chips. Kyler didn't eat a whole lot as his 2nd cousins were here to play and there was so much going on! I think we had about 25 people here total! :) After dinner the kids played for a bit outside and then we opened presents. Kyler was more interested in opening presents at his birthday than he was at Christmas. He's starting to get the hang of it now and realizing that there is something fun inside! :) After presents we had cake and ice cream and sang "Happy Birthday". Kyler needed a little help blowing out his candle as we haven't been practicing much, oh well. :) Here are some pictures from the first party:
Kyler's Basketball Cake! His birthday theme this year was sports balls. :)
The Birthday Boy before his party!
Great-Grandma & Grandpa T eating dinner with Geneva and Henry (Geneva is the lady who babysat me when I was little!)
Kyler eating dinner with his Grandpa and Great Aunt and Uncle!
Playing outside
Opening presents!
Asking Great Uncle Roger and Aunt Cheryl for help getting the toys out of the package!
Singing "Happy Birthday!"
A picture with "Kyler 2" the special airplane Henry made for Kyler.
Kyler's real birthday was April 12th, which happened to fall on a Tuesday this year, which is also Erik's day off, so it was fun to have Erik home to celebrate Kyler's birthday with us all day! We didn't do anything too out of the ordinary. Erik and Kyler went to Fareway in the morning, then we had lunch, Kyler napped and we played outside for a while because it was a really nice day out. We had one of Kyler's favorite dinners-skillet casserole-and then had some basketball cupcakes for dessert! After dinner we went on a walk up to UNI and looked at the panther statue outside the Union (something else Kyler likes to do) and then came home and opened presents from Mom and Dad! Here are some pictures from Kyler's real birthday:
Opening presents...
An Aquadoodle! Kyler LOVES pens/drawing/pencils so we thought this would be a great non-messy toy for him! :)
A baseball bat and tee!
We had one last birthday celebration for Kyler the weekend after his birthday-a friend party! We didn't do a friend party last year, but thought he would enjoy it this year since he is really starting to know who people are. So we invited a few of his friends over with their families to help him celebrate. We kind of followed the same type of set-up as with his family party; we ate dinner, played, opened presents and had cake and ice cream. It was a fun time with all the little kids running around! Here are some pictures from his friend party:
Basketball cake!
All the kids ready to eat dinner!
Mason, Denver, & Jillian helping open presents.
Singing happy birthday!
It's hard to believe our little man is 2 years old! They have been a great two years and we love the little guy Kyler is becoming! Thanks to everyone who helped us celebrate, we are very blessed!
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