Jensen's Birthday!

Here is some video of Jensen riding his new tractor. He needed some help at first but he was pedaling on his own in no time.

Jensen's Party Part 2

I am not really that good at this blogging thing so I couldn't get the rest of my pictures to go on my last post so I am going to just do a seperate post for the rest of the party pics!

Back to the story:

He was a pretty happy birthday boy!


Sitting patiently waiting to open up gifts. He got lots of great gifts. One of the big hits this year was anything from the Cars movie. He loves anything to do with that movie. He got a tractor that tips over from the movie which he loved and some pencils and markers.

He got a really cool scooter that has Winnie the Pooh characters on it. He thought it was really neat but he didn't think it worked at first when he got on it and it didn't move. He thought it was supposed to go on it's own. We had to show him how to make it go and soon enough he was doing it on his own.

He got a lot of other cool gifts as well but the biggest hit of all was his new Farmall Super M Pedal Tractor. He got that from Mommy and Daddy, Grandma and Grandpa, Aunt Lara, Grandma Janet, Great Grandma Richardson and Aunt Net and Uncle Dave.



It makes a nice clicking noise when you pedal it which I am sure all of the neighbors will love!



Overall, the party was a great success! Thanks to everyone that was able to be there to enjoy the day with us.

Jensen's 3rd Birthday!

We celebrated Jensen's 3rd Birthday this past Sunday! I can't believe he is 3 years old already. The time has gone by so fast and he is such a big boy now! It's hard to believe that he will be going to school next fall. The party was a huge success. The weather was great and we had a good turnout. There were people that we missed there ( aka Aunt Net and Uncle Dave) but we knew they were there in spirit. Jensen wanted to have a tractor party. So we had to be creative in our decorating. We had a Farm theme overall.

Here is the cake table. We had party hats and blowers with a farm theme and had pictures up above the table of Jensen on Grandpa's tractor.



Aunt Lara decorated the cake. She did a great job for her first try! Now she wants to do it every year which is great with me:) We had a Farmall 300 Tractor and wagon on the cake and as soon as Jensen saw that we had a hard time keeping it on the cake!


While getting ready to decorate I realized that we didn't have a banner that said Happy Birthday on it and then I remembered that we had used a banner the past 2 years that Aunt Net had made for him on his first birthday and I realized that I had seen it in the storage room this past week and didn't think about what it was so I ran downstairs and grabbed it. Last year we had marked out 1st and put 2nd Birthday so I covered that up again and we reused it for the 3rd time and it worked out great! It also made me feel like Net had a part in the party even though she couldn't physically be there.

Although he didn't want the tractor go on the cake to begin with he was really proud of his cake. As soon as people arrived he would take them to see his cake first!

We weren't sure how the singing of Happy Birthday would go because he kept telling us that if we sang to him he would "freak out" ( no kidding his words). He did run for the door when we first started singing but then his cousins Lane and Sara came up to be with him and he was fine.

Future Friends

We recently had a chance to visit with my friend Deann and her kids. She only lives 20 minutes away but it seems like I used to see her more when she lived in Indiana. Anyways, her son, James is just 6 months older than Jensen so they got along right away. It wasn't long and they were off in James' room playing cars. It is so much fun seeing your kids interact with other kids. You just hope that they are nice to each other. Anyhow, they seemed to enjoy their time together so much that they shared with us the stomach flu (That is one thing I definately do not miss with not having my kids in daycare) but we made it through ok after sharing it also with Grandpa, Aunt Net and Uncle Dave. Fun times!

Our 6th Anniversary

Brian and I celebrated our 6th anniversary this April. Time sure does fly! While Net was still around we decided to have her take some pictures of just the two of us so here are some of those to share with you:

Brothers

Jensen is still really enjoying being a big brother. He wants to hold him a lot and loves to give him kisses. The trick is to get him to be gentle when he is kissing and hugging him. Jensen also wants me to take pictures of him and Peyton everytime they sit close together so I am starting to get an abundance of those pictures so I thought I would share a few of those with you:

Memorable May

May was a busy but exciting month in the Perkin's household. Peyton reached the 3 month mark and Jensen is only a month from being 3 years old. Wow time goes by so fast! The weather is finally getting nice around here also so we have been playing outside a lot this month. Here's a few pictures of Peyton from this past month:












We got Jensen a small bike which he has been enjoying riding around our driveway and on walks through our subdivision with Mommy.