We celebrated Torrin's 2nd birthday this weekend. His cousin, Bailey, will also be turning two this month, so we celebrated hers as well. It was fun to celebrate with cousins. This was my first time really decorating with buttercream. I will say this much, it tasted a lot better than fondant.
Allen's brother, Jason, and his family are in town this weekend and we got to go to a fish farm & pumpkin patch. It's kind of an odd combination, but it was a lot of fun for everyone. They had some stocked ponds at this place, a corn maze, and a small pumpkin patch. Hayden's idea of catching fish was to put his line & hook in the water (without any bait) and hook the side of the fish. Suprisingly, he caught two fish this way and I caught one. LOL Tomorrow we will celebrate Torrin's 2nd Birthday (which was yesterday). His cousin, Bailey, will also be 2 this month, so we are celebrating hers also. Here are some pictures from this morning. The other little blonde boy in the pictures is our nephew, Braedon. He's 6 months younger than Hayden.
Allen comes from a really big family (9 kids). Almost all of them are married with kids, so we decided to start having our own family reunions. This year we went up to Loman, Idaho, and went camping. Everyone was there, except Danny, who had National Guard for two weeks. But we did get to see Danny after the reunion when he blessed his new baby girl, Abigail. (We got a couple of family pics, but Hayden is hiding behind me).
I swear my kids were the dirtiest. Hayden had a runny nose and kept wiping it with his dirty hands, leaving a permanent dirty smear all the way up to his forehead. LOL I didn't get a lot of pictures, but here are a few. (Torrin was on the move too much to get any good shots of him. The only one I got of him was him throwing a tantrum in the tent).
Hayden and Braedon (6 months apart)
Our own little version of "Potter Puppet Pals". Hayden had absolutely NO fear for his swimming lessons over the past two weeks. I put him in the "preschool" class, but I was worried that it might be too low of a level for him (the website said ages 2 and up). I was worried he would be with a bunch of 2-year-olds, but his class was all boys his age. I can't believe how outgoing Hayden is. He definitely didn't get that from his mom. He loved to show the teachers all his "tricks" and was constantly chattering. I rarely heard any of the other kids speak. (Maybe my son is just loud. LOL). Anyway, he did great and will be ready for Level 1 next summer.
Hayden turns 4 on Saturday! (Can you believe it? I can't). Since we had family in town over the weekend we decided to celebrate then. I made him a Mario cake. It was my first experience with fondant, so I was nervous about choosing such a difficult design, but I'm really happy with how it turned out. After about 10 hours of work, I had a hard time cutting into it; but it was definitely worth it. I love this little boy to pieces.
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