Happy 30th Birthday!

Last Thursday was Jason's 30th birthday! I think it is a very big deal to be leaving your twenties (although he doesn't) and I am certainly not looking forward to mine in a month!!!! It just seems so old....anyways!

We started the day by making daddy his favorite kind of cake...cookie cake. Brinley helped in decorating this year. I only had to show how to use the piping bag on three squirts and then she went at! I think I have a natural little cake decorator here!

Brinley filling in the "30" with chocolate icing

She was very proud of her cake decorating skills.....me too :)

Grandma and Paw-paw came over with cousin, Wyatt (who is visiting from Switzerland) to babysit while Jason and I went to dinner at this yummy Brazilian steakhouse. The basic concept is they come around with meat on skewers and cut you a slab to taste. They have 30 meats ranging from steak, pork, chicken, duck, frog and alligator. It is Jason's idea of heaven! I ate so much meat that my fingers started to swell and I had a hard time getting my rings off! We came back for ice cream and cake. It was a great day and we love daddy so much!

Brinley and Wyatt eating cake and ice cream

They were jumping so hard they knocked over the bounce house

Disney on Ice

My dad wanted to celebrate his birthday by taking all the grand kids to see Disney on Ice this weekend. Our seats were in the 2nd row, so we got to see all the characters up close and personal (and get hit with ice shavings from their skates too!) Brinley was absolutely in awe of the entire night. She is very much into the princess thing right now and has to dress up, role play and watch any show with Belle, Cinderella, Sleeping beauty and Snow white. She had stars in her eyes watching all the princess in person skating around. She even didn't eat her popcorn she was so entranced!

Brinley and Reese with their Minnie mouse ears

Clayton enjoyed the first 45 mintues, then he was ready to crawl around!

The whole gang from Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (another exciting moment for her)
Nemo, Dori and the shark

Snow white with Ariel and Belle in the background

After the show, we headed to Buca Di Beppo for some yummy Italian food. We left very tired and stuffed. Happy birthday pops!

Halloween

Our Halloween week started on Sunday with trick or treat at the park. We got everyone all dressed up and headed to practice trick or treating with Brinley and her friends.

Brinley (Ariel) and Clayton (Sebastian). Brinley chose his costume and we figured this was the only year we could get away with it.

Thursday night, we carved our pumpkin. Clayton really enjoyed pulling out all the gooey stuff. He even tried to teethe on the opening of the pumpkin.

Friday, we co-hosted a Halloween party with friends. We had lots of delicious dips, deserts, chili and yummy treats. There was a bouce house with a slide, hay ride for the kids, pumpkin carving contest, games and lots of socializing. The weather was perfect with just enough nip in the air to make it feel like fall. Brinley spent the entire night on the hay ride...she loved it!

Us (Jason was Popeye for Halloween)

Saturday we headed over to my brothers for another halloween party and trick or treating. Brinley had so much fun trick or treating with Reese and her friends. She kept up with them really well, but we ended up leaving before they finished because she was exhausted!!!

Sunday was spent recovering from our halloween activities!