the birthday boy

My little boy is 4!

Crazy, right?

This year I was able to get some really cute "birthday pics". Here are a few more from that photoshoot.

Cole's birthday was on a Sunday so we waited until Monday (Nick's day off) to celebrate it. The night before I used a mini helium tank to blow up a bunch of balloons and put them all over his ceiling so that he would see them when he woke up. We also had a cake and presents that he got to open around lunch time.

One of his presents was this cute tool kit, he loved it.

For dinner, we went to Cole's favorite restaurant, Rainforest Cafe.

He got to get this really cool souvenir glass.

And some new binoculars. He loved checking out all the fish.

Plus, they brought him the volcano cake and sang "Happy Birthday" to him. He was really excited by the sparkler.

And that was our day. Cole thanked me for "his birthday" about a million times so I'm pretty sure it was a success.

Today, we are headed to the pumpkin patch and I'm hoping to get some good pictures!

california trip part 2: Disneyland

I'm back with Disneyland pictures! We ended up spending 3 days in Disney which was about all we could handle. I only brought my camera once because I didn't want to tote it around but we did end up using the Disney photo pass service which was basically photographers stationed all over the park taking pictures for you and Nick has a pretty decent camera on his cell phone. So these pictures are all a mix of the three.

The first thing we did in Disneyland was grab a churro. Yum!

Nick also had this gigantic ice cream cone later in the day. It was so big that it started melting all over the place before he could finish it. I'm not going to lie, it was hilarious!

Cole loved the parade, he was dazzled!

Blake was more interested in the crowd than the parade.

The nice thing about using the photo pass is that we were able to get a lot of family photos!

Cole loved this part!

Cole rode on is very first roller coaster. He was so excited about it and did really well. Afterwards he told me that it was really fun "but... it was little too fast." haha

That's us in the front car!

Blake was a pill at Disneyland but he was usually happy when he was able to explore and be out of the stroller.

Cole's favorite ride was the carousel, we went on that one multiple times throughout the trip.

He also was a fan of bug world and any sort of flying ride. He DEFINITELY did not like any type of ride that was dark or scary. We went on the Roger Rabbit ride (my idea) and he was thoroughly traumatized.

But he was brave enough to take a couple character shots which is a big deal! He even let Mickey touch him!

Although notice how far from Pluto he had to stand.

And on our last day in Disneyland, it was 100 degrees! Luckily we had gotten a babysitter for Blake so Cole was able to take advantage of the stroller. He was definitely hot and tired by the end of the day

Coming up next... birthday pics!