Friday, August 5, 2016

Birthday Month

We celebrated two big birthdays last month--Lydia's first and Matt's 30th!
We had fun celebrating Lydia's birthday.  I sure enjoyed looking for all things red, white and blue.  I hope she doesn't get tired of patriotic birthday parties.  How does red, white, blue and pink sound? Uncle Sam meets the Disney Princesses?

This year we hosted a barbecue and had a few friends come over.

The kids helped me get ready with a little dollar store DIY making these patriotic window boxes for the playhouse.  They are just so cute, I had to share a lot of pictures.



 At the party everyone had fun playing outside





 Lydia was very dainty with her cake, she just picked at the berries on top.  Even after I cut it open for her, she just picked up little pieces. This is as messy as she got!

Here's her cute little cake before:





 We had lots of patriotic and picnic goodies:





Later that evening we let Lydia (or rather Owen) open her presents.


We spent Matt's birthday at home with just our family.

I asked Owen what we should do for Daddy's birthday, and his suggestion was donuts, so that's what we did!




 My chocolate faced boy


For this milestone birthday, I gathered 30 gifts. Some were big, some small, some silly, some sentimental.

 Owen, once again, was a good helper at opening them all.


Happy Birthday, Matt! We love you!

Yay for summer birthdays!




1 comment:

  1. Alyssa, You are so crafty! I love the window boxes and the cute flag decorations. Two special birthdays for two amazing people! I love it.

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