Friends Baby Shower

On February 4th my sweet friends threw me a baby shower. Riley held it at her house and she had her place decorated so cute! It was weird for me to see all that pink, I'm so used to blue for boys. It was SO nice of them because they already threw me one when I was about to have Bridger but they said I needed clothes for a baby girl now. I have the best friends ever!

Riley had a yummy dinner prepared for us and so many yummy treats!

Riley and I have been friends forever (since kindergarten, I think). I love her!

Here are all my sweet friends: Haylee, Elisa, Elke, Lexi, Laura, (me) Riley is taking the picture, and we were minus Cathy who couldn't make it.


Bridger came with me and he had a great time eating candy, watching Scooby Doo, helping me open presents, and hanging out with the girls.

The girls each made me a onsie. They were darling!

Riles, me, and Elisa

One of the many cute outfits I received! I can't wait to see this baby girl in them!

Bridger figured out how to use my camera and Riley taught him how to do a self portrait. Nice huh?

It was such a fun baby shower and I loved spending time with my cute friends! Thanks so much, girls!

Bridger's Train Birthday Party

We had a fun train birthday party for Bridger this year! It was the day after his birthday and we invited about 10 friends and cousins to the party. He was so excited!
These are just a few pictures of the decorations. I found this cute train party PDF online by partiesbyhardie and just printed everything off myself. All I had to do was cut everything out and put it together.

The birthday banner

The Menu

Their place settings

The train cake. This definitely wasn't my best work--the blue frosting was WAY darker than I wanted and I made it at like 1:00 in the morning so I didn't really care what it looked like anymore, but the kids liked it!

The guests

We had 4 "stations" for our activities. #1 was Coloring Trains, #2 was Playing with Trains (Bridger's new train set), #3 was Pin the Caboose on the Train, and #4 was Train Storytime. We split up into little groups and went to each station. Here are Driggs and Logan at the Coloring Station.

And here's Bridger more interested in playing with his cars than coloring.

The boys loved playing with the train! BJ loved it so much that when I tried to get him to go to the next station he just screamed. So I didn't fight him and just let him play there the whole party.

Bridger and his buddy, Daxton, being silly at the Pin the Caboose on the Train station.

Cousins

We had lunch after the activities. Here are all the cute kids who came to the party (minus Kelsey who had to leave early.)

Then we had cake. Here's Bridger blowing out his birthday candles.

Yay!

After they had cake we opened presents. I love how all the kids crowd around to help open presents! It's so cute. Bridger got some fun toys and games.
For the kids take home gifts I had an engineer hat, train whistle, and red bandana for each of them. I wanted to get a picture of all of them with their hats and bandanas on but no one would keep them on. Oh well!

I also made these little candy trains for each of the kids. They turned out pretty cute. After all the work that goes into a party it's fun to see the kids having a good time together and makes it all worth it. Thanks to everyone who came and helped make his birthday party so much fun!

Bridger's 3rd Birthday

Bridger had a great 3rd birthday! He woke up and immediately asked me if he could open his big and little Finn McMissile (he knew his presents because he went shopping with me. Whoops!). After we opened them we got my parents on Skype and then went downstairs to see his big surprise.
The big surprise was a train table that he had been wanting for a long time. Jake and Skyler stayed up late the night before putting it together.

And it turned out awesome! I wish I was a little boy so I could enjoy playing with it.

As soon as he saw it he started playing with it and was too busy to even look up at the camera to say "cheese" for me. He and Graham literally played with it all day long. It was a gift from my parents and Jake and I so it was fun to have my parents on Skype while he "opened" it.

Bridger wanted noodles for dinner so we took him and Graham out to the Olive Garden. We didn't have a ton of time before our family was coming over for cake and ice cream but luckily they got us in and out real fast.

Me and my big 3 year old. What a stud!
When we got home Brody and his family, Barry, Brooke and Skyler, Grandma Hart and Cookie and Steve came over for cake and ice cream and presents. Everyone was so nice to bring him a gift. He got a sweet motion activated candy dispenser from Brooke and Skyler, a remote control train from Cookie and Steve, horses from Grandma Hart, cute pajamas from Brody and Corine and an awesome conductor hat, bandana, and whistle from Barry.
The candy machine was a hit with the kids! Graham couldn't shove the Mike and Ikes in his mouth fast enough.

What a cute conductor!
We had a simple cake on his birthday night and his fancy train cake was for his birthday party the next day.

It's hard to believe that my little Bridger is 3 years old already! The time has flown by and I need it to slow down to I can enjoy my little boy longer. He is such a fun kid! I'm so grateful he belongs to me and Jake. Happy birthday, kiddo!