Zachary turned 3 years old today!

It’s hard to believe it’s been 3 years since Nicole woke up and said it felt like she was having some contractions, but still decided to go into work. Then early that afternoon she sent me a text that said “I’m heading to the hospital now” so I Skyped my Director to let him know and he told me to “Go! Go! Go! Keep me posted” haha. And I remember walking into the hospital room to see Nicole already having some REALLY big contractions. A few hours later Zachary entered into the world, a perfect little guy!

On Saturday we cleaned up the house a little bit and prepared for Zac’s birthday party. We had his party later that afternoon. It was 55 degrees outside with full sun so we were actually able to open up the back door to let some fresh air in. I think Zac had a blast at his party! (Lots of pictures posted at the end of the blog)

This morning Zac and Parker played with Zac’s new toys from his birthday for a while. Then Zac and Nicole went out to Kohl’s to return Zac’s shoes that we gave him for his birthday for a bigger size…growing so fast! It was another amazing day of weather for the beginning of January (mid-50’s and plenty of sun) so we all spent as much time outside as we could. Nicole took the boys “exploring” down in our woods, while Amie and I relaxed on the back patio. They came back to the house to get some snacks and some supplies to go explore some more. I went with them the second time and it was great being in the woods and going on an adventure. I’m sure you can imagine the type of adventure with two toddler boys…pick up every rock, jump over every fallen tree, try to find as many bugs as possible, “can we go in the creek??”, “do you think there are any bears in the trees??”….I was pretty sure we weren’t going to see any bears, but I checked anyway 🙂

This evening we told Zac that he could pick whatever he wanted for his birthday dinner. He said he wanted to go to a restaurant and picked “the place where we can watch them make pizza”…so we headed to Dewey’s Pizza. Both Parker and Zac loved watching them toss the dough and laughed when the Dewey’s workers threw flour against the glass at them. It was a great birthday dinner!

Tonight we let Zac blow out candles on his leftover cookie cake since today’s his actual birthday. And we gave him one last present…a new shirt with a cape on the back (he loves the cape shirts).

It was a full weekend! I tried to take in and enjoy every minute of it because I know how fast these days go by….

Below are a bunch of pictures from Saturday and today. I hope anyone that reads this enjoys looking at them 🙂