A 3rd Birthday: Pirates & Princess

Birthday Shots! Yes, his birthday was like two weeks ago... I admit I stink with uploading photos and then using them but ah here and ENJOY!?!?

Just like every year I am like 'huh, why didn't we take this or that photo' and I was pretty bummed by the pictures that were taken yet again this year. Mainly that there were hardly any of Matthew and most were of him looking down or away. BUT I know that is not a huge deal. He had a blast, we had a great time and hopefully all of our friends had fun as well!! As you can see from the last shot which was after everyone went home Matthew was still having a ball hours later! The theme was pirates and princesses! It was the first time in the WHOLE three years (because Kevin and I kept saying has it only been three years since he was born and what the heck did we do exactly with ourselves prior to Matthew coming into our world!?) that we had to keep the party indoors as it was cool and damp outside. This did not dampen the spirit of the event and as Nicki said 'it is like the kick off to the birthday season!' HAPPY BELATED 3rd BIRTHDAY, peanut!

The 3rd Annual Birthday at the Zoo

There photos are from our 3rd annual trip to the zoo for Matthew's birthday the day before his birthday (April 18th.) The penguin shot - omg those two penguins cracked me up. I swear it was like a Soprano's scene and the hairy one was the head mafia dude! The lion sat up and looked around right when we walked up. This was the most amazing day at the zoo we have ever had. All the animals were up and running and amazing to watch. The giraffes were running, one elephant gave this amazing show in the water giving herself a bath and shot water up in the air, and the lion was actually up and looking right at my camera! Unfortunately as always we took lots of animal shots but not many of us and Matthew. Also, K's mom was there and there are more shots of her and Matthew then the three of us. As usual I forgot to ask her to take a shot of the three (four!) of us. SO BUMMED ABOUT THIS.

Pre-Birthday Photos!

After Matthew's 1st birthday we started opening his presents from us the day before his birthday because it was too hectic to open our presents and party presents at the same time. Here are some pre-birthday present opening photos! There are from April 18th... I am SO on top of things :)