What a wonderful birthday we celebrated for Jordan this weekend. His Grandma and Grandpa Cousins, Grandma Simpson, Papa Simpson, Great Grandma Bapchia, Auntie’s Krista and Allie along with cousin Nadia all came to celebrate his 2nd birthday. We couldn't have asked for a more beautiful day which was great because we spent most of the day in our backyard while the boys put together grandma Simpson's present for both kids. It is a huge play set with 2 swings a play house and a big tube slide. My mom and dad actually came over the day before to help try and get it together for Jordan’s birthday. On the instructions it says it will take 14 hrs and 2 men to build it. We asked toys r us what the cost would be for them to build us and they quoted us $500.00 that’s half the price of the play set! So Sean and my dad spent the weekend putting it together. The finished it just before Sean had to drive his family to the ferry. I spent the day before they started separating and labeling all the screws that took about half a day. In the end it is great! Took a lot of time but it is well worth it. Jordan just loves it I have a hard time bring him inside the house. Katie May doesn’t really know what is going on yet but I'm sure she will soon love it. My mom and I went out the day before an bought the young kid swings, we will put the swings it came with once the kids are older and know how to use them. JJ also received a fire truck peddle car from my parents, a Thomas bath toy from his aunties, a car sleeping bag from his papa and Nana, and a big boy bike from his mom and dad. My mom and I made the cake the night before, the theme for his birthday this year was construction theme so we made a pudding type cake in the back of a toy dump truck. It was so cute I think we will be making this cake every year.
Another great thing my parents managed to fit our BBQ in the van on their trip over. Man did we miss our BBQ. Thank you so much for fitting that into the van you have just opened up a whole new world of dinner options to us again :)
The princess all dressed up for her big brother’s birthday
Auntie Krista was also taking lots of pictures. I hope to get some of those pictures from her.
Sean and my dad building the play set
Bapchia and Jordan enjoying his new bike from his mom and dad
grandma Simpson pushing the kids on the new play set
The kids enjoying the new swing set
Present time!
Of course JJ shared this special time with his baby sister. I can’t get over how much he loves to play with her.
This is the special cake my mom and I made!
Jordan and his fire truck from grandma and grandpa Cousins
Mom and daughter
Mom and kids
Cake time. After we blew out the candles JJ kept saying oh no!
More pictures of the boys building the play set. We are so thankful they built it. That was like an additional $500.00 present from Sean and my dad to the kids. I can’t believe how much work it was to get that thing together.
This is a present the kids will enjoy for years to come!
Our little boy coming down the slide for the first time.
As you can see from the pictures Jordan had another great Birthday party.
In the future, the only thing Sean and I would do differently is not offering to pick up family and friends from the Ferry terminal. We normally have no problem offering to do this; however, we both felt really bad that Sean had to leave his son's birthday party and drive back and forth to the Ferry terminal. So for special events like Birthdays, Easter, Christmas etc... we would ask that you make travel arrangements prior to the occasion and possibly use transit or car pool so that we are not constantly shuffling back & forth and we can enjoy the special day with our family.
Thank you everyone for celebrating Jordan’s 2nd birthday.
