Pirate Connor turns 4

Connor turned 4 this year on Christmas Day - we celebrated his birthday a few days early with a Pirate theme and a train ride.  The party was super fun and I know he enjoyed every bit of it.  He received a bunch of Spider-Man toys and clothes and other fun stuff as well.

the start of Connor's birthday gift stack

Jake and The Neverland Pirates banner

Treasure Map Fun!

Food

Pirates Booty

Pirate cake - first I've ever made - delicious

decorating pirate hats and swords

Train Ride!!!

Connor and his friends from school

Daddy and Caden

friends bouncing and playing

Celebrating St. Nick Day

Our Christmas family tradition is to celebrate St. Nick Day each year.  St. Nick Day is usually around December 6th.  This is the day that Santa fills the kids stockings and we watch the Veggie Tales St. Nick DVD.  Then Christmas Day we focus more on family and our Lord Jesus.  Santa tries to make sure the kids are filled with fun gifts for the holiday season.  This year they got christmas pjs, a christmas shirt, a christmas book, ornament, and some other fun goodies to play with.

Christmas Decorations

Our new stockings

Brotherly love

Sweet miss Codi

Connor and his stocking

Caden and his stocking

Caden checking out his loot

Spider-Man ornament - no way!

Jake and the Neverland Pirates ornament!!

Connor and his loot

Daddy and his loot

Codi is so excited!

Codi checking out her loot

Smiley Faces

We are just full of smiles lately!  Melts a mommy's heart and there is definitely alot of mommy joy!

Trick or Treating with Friends

For the past two years we've spent Halloween trick or treating with friends.  Lets just say there is about 15 kids and a bunch of adults enjoying trick or treating and eating candy.  The kids were Spider-Man, Woody and a Halloween princess.  Codi rode in the stroller the entire time, but Caden and Connor enjoyed going house to house getting candy.  This was Caden's first year to trick or treat and he sure caught on fast.  He had so much fun and even thought after getting his candy he could then go into these people's homes.  We quickly learned that was not what you do, lol.  He got excited over the scary decorations and saying "HI" to everyone.  Connor thought it was a race and wanted to run to every house.  I was glad when Nick arrived from work to help out!  It was a lot of fun, but maybe next year we might just roam our neighborhood - less cars and crowds.  Still deciding......

All the little kids before we set our on our adventure

Woody

Trick or Treating

Addie, Rylie and Connor

Tired! but still eating candy

Trunk or Treat

Our church puts on an event called Trunk or Treat each year to invite church members and outside guest to celebrate Halloween in a safe and fun environment, but also an environment for people to come to know God.  Our Life Group this year had three vehicles we decorated and handed out candy to the little ones.  It was huge turnout and lots of fun.  Connor was Spider-Man, Caden was Woody and Codi was a cute Halloween princess in her tutu and purple witch shirt.

Spider-Man pose

Daddy and Woody

Halloween princess

loving on the candy

Woody still eating candy

excited for some fun!