Kanyon's Birthday

Kanyon's birthday was kind of spread out but we managed to celebrate our favorite 4 year old!

Its always fun to open our presents from our Montana Family!! They already love this water toy and we haven't even hooked it up to the water hose yet!!

Aren't boxes always a gift in themselves!??!!

Someday soon, these boys will realize that pretty much anything one gets they both get to enjoy!! So they get double the birthdays!!

On his actual birthday, I was at Camp for my retreat, but Kory made sure the Birthday boy got a treat on his day. He had lots of cheetos at lunch and Kory took both of them to WalMart and let klp pick out a new "moomee" or movie.

As I mentioned, KLP brought the boys out to camp after naps that day so I could be with them a little bit. We all sang Happy Birthday to Kanyon and he got to eat some pizza for supper!

The next weekend was the weekend we decided to have a party. But that same day was his big Horse and Rider event out at Windridge, our hippotherapy place. Its a big open house thing with eating, silent auction, riders showing off, snow cones, and lots of other stuff. It was a fun day and fun for family and friends to watch klp and Kandy (the horse) do their thing.

On the way out there, Gay Gay was helping him practice making a 4 with his hands. In this case, his thumb works in our favor. The one on his left hand stays tucked up, but its perfect for making a 4!!!!

Here he is riding

and riding sideways

and making a weird face with his awesome PT Celia!!!

Nanny got to come out and watch. I took this picture right after klp was pointing at everyone's glasses. He pointed at Nanny's, PawPaw's, then his and said "MEEEEE!". Translated: "you have glasses, you have glasses, and I have glasses!! We all have glasses!" Smarty pants.

Enjoying cousin Caden's hat!

So after the horse show, mom and I went in to CAKE mode while the boys napped. We ate pizza at the house and later on our small group and family came over to eat cake. We had a basketball theme since klp is obsessed with it right now, he got a new goal for his birthday, and its March...basketball month (even though the party was April 2). My parents went through their house and got all our old jerseys we used to have and brought them so lots of people could wear jerseys to give it a basketball feel! It was fun!

Here are some of the kids playing in the sand box. klp was loving his Kansas jersey...too bad they lost.

q had on his bball shorts and shoes but we didn't have a jersey for for him so he wore the jersey for his team...THE SKINS!!

That night Butler and VCU were playing in the Final Four, so Luke Porter came dressed for his team. I mean really, you can't blame them for having to use electrical tape on a bib...who has a VCU jersey????

Minimal decor...this was it. Probably the ugliest worst cake I've ever made. It tasted yummy, so I guess that was the redeeming quality. Notice the Sixers jersey in the middle. OLD SCHOOL..its a Dr. J jersey. Of course its my dads. He was gonna wear it, but it was a little tight!

Me and Rachel! aka Larry Bird and Grant Hill.

Clint and Kory....Bobby Hurley and Jason Kidd

the men watching the game

Phillips Pham! Please notice the size of q's belly...and that was BEFORE cake! Seriously.

Nolan loved his cupcake

klp is still not a sweet eater. He wanted cake and ice cream so he had a plate but pretty much just pretended to eat it the whole time.

klp and Ro. I think she was trying to be nice and smile but really she wanted to keep watching TV.

All 3 Grant Hills. He was well represented...Amy had on an old one of ours from when the Pistons did that ugly turquoise jersey but she was gone by the time we took this picture.

Me and my 4 year old (with his new bball tattoo)

Birthday boy watching the bball game

Clint and Rachel stayed around after the party and got PJ's on the kids before they left...here is Nolan with his favorite part of the whole night...the guitar!

What's after PJ's?? A bedtime story!

sweet q playing the electric guitar

and another cutie q with a ball and his sweet arm band

we put his tat on his belly. He is still pointing to his belly and saying "ball" but the tattoo is long gone.

Here is the gift of all gifts....

q goes for the slam dunk approach.

klp got a KD jersey from Roselyn and Nolan (or really Uncle Clint...lets be honest)!

klp is OBSESSED with his goal. He is quite the shooter. While Q is the dunker, klp goes for the long range shot and he makes it!

We love the goal so much. He says "I ouuu BOOM!" That means he wants to play basketball. Somehow we started saying BOOM when you make a basket so basketball became "BOOM" and "babaaa" is a basketball goal. We hear those words A LOT. The next morning he had to shoot some hoops before church!

Here is a video Drew took for us....

We are so happy to have our Kanyon Luke!