BirthDAY {3-years-old}

We started Austin 3rd birthday off with a trip to Sparta (to look at brick, of course) and lunch at his favorite place... Doreen's! After lunch, we celebrated with a tasty hamburger cake!

 

Nana & Pa, B and The Ferfers came over later in the afternoon to help our birthday boy celebrate.

A trampoline from Aunt B!

Dinner time!

A "struction" set from Uncle Jonathan!

A combine from Nana and Pa!

Waiting for his gift from Mom and Dad...

A basketball "shoot!"

Austin and the Ferfers

Austin and his Aunt B

Austin with Nana & Pa

Our family of four :)

He asked for "like a little farm cake.." so we did what we could!

Nothing says happy birthday to me...

...then ice cream right out of the container!

We ended the night with a special phone call from Uncle Jonathan!

Incredible Pizza

We were going to take Austin to Chuck E Cheese while we were on vacation, but a few guys at work talked Jay into Incredible Pizza. We went on Wednesday hoping the crowd wouldn't be bad. I don't think Austin really knew what we were doing until we walked in the doors and he ran full force towards the game room. We quickly pulled him back and broke the news that we had to eat before we could play. It was finally time to play once we had our fill of the pizza buffet. I think he's still a little young for most of the games, but he was so proud of every game he "winned!"

Ski Ball is dangerous when you throw overhand!

He begged to ride the go-carts.

Slight meltdown when he realized he couldn't drive!

And they're off!

Mini golf

Car racing

Deer hunting

The boys are our prizes - a paper airplane and slinky!

Our Little House on The Prairie: July 11 - 16

The house got off to a slow start after temps near 100 at the beginning of the week. The roofing company got behind at other jobs due to the extreme heat - but eventually things got rolling and we ended the week with half a shingled roof, stairs, archways, fireplace rough-in, garage floor and a bathtub for Austin and JP! Jay and I made huge progress in the decisions department. We picked out cabinets, counter top, lights, interior doors, carpet, hardwood and trim. Tile and brick are the big things still left undecided. We thought we had finally narrowed down our brick choice...but of course it's back-ordered. Back to the drawing board!

Shingles delivered - 7/11

Stairs!

Fireplace!

Arches in dining room

Arches into kitchen

Austin and JP's bathtub!

Our first trip downstairs - 7/15!

Garage stairs!

Garage floor - 7/15

Shingles!!