Party Time!

I am so behind on blogging! Our June has been crazy this year. Bryce and Caleb, our little boys, turned 4 on June 14. We had a kid party and a neighborhood barbecue the Friday before their birthday. They have really started to love parties so they have been helping us plan it for months now. Bryce wanted a Spiderman theme, which was easy to pull off. Caleb on the other hand wanted motorcycles so we ended up ordering all his plates and napkins. Oh well, we have always tried to make sure that they feel like two separate little people so this was one way we could do that. The neighborhood party went great! Luckily, we got good weather. I was vey HOT, but at least it wasn't raining. We had a really good turn out and everyone had a good time. This year I had decided that I would attempt the cakes. This turned out to be quite the venture but all in all it was fun. The boys got a lot of squirt guns as gifts so an all out water fight broke out between the kids and the dads after the present opening.
Crazy us, we had decided that we would do two parties this year so the family party was on Sunday. We did make it a little easier on ourselves by having the same menu but still it was a tiring weekend. We were a little panicked Sunday morning because a lot of Norfolk and the surrounding areas were getting so much rain that the roads were flooding. All of our family had to take alternate routes to get to Lincoln. We never expected that people would have trouble getting to Bryce and Caleb's party in June, maybe Abby's which is in January. Thanks everyone for going out of your way to get to the party. It meant a lot to all of us. It was so fun to see great grandparents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. It was a fun relaxing day and the boys ended up getting showered with a ridiculous amount of gifts. They loved them all and stayed busy for days playing with all their new stuff.
Robb and I decided that the boys were out growing their trikes and they needed bigger bikes, so we decided that we would get them their first real bikes this year. We waited until just a couple days before their party to put them together and hid them in the basement storage area with a blanket over top. Wouldn't ya know, Caleb found them one day. He was looking for one of his balls that went in the storage area and he came running upstairs all excited that their was a dirt bike in his basement. Robb and I were pretty disappointed that they found their gifts but they loved them so I guess that is what counts. Bryce got a spiderman bike and Caleb got one that looks like a dirt bike.
Now I have to spend just a minute being a little sentimental. It is so hard to believe that our babies are 4 years old. We never could have imagined 4 years ago how these two little boys would change our lives! We made it through the every 3 hour feedings, the teething, walking, and potty training and now they are little boys not babies anymore. Where does the time go!