{sidenote: i am laying on the couch with my laptop on my belly as i write this post, and our baby is kicking so much he is making the screen wobble around!
sometimes (actually, most of the time) i have a hard time believing we are really going to have another little person in our family.
but right now, when he is doing karate moves on my laptop, it's hard to deny.
16 weeks to go.}
holden has been asking when his birthday party would be since chet has his back in march.
and he has known he has wanted a penguin-themed party since then, too.
to say he has been excited for his birthday this year is an understatement!
his real birthday is tomorrow. june 26.
my mom just sent me a text that said: "3 years ago tonight... i know what you were doing!"
to which i responded: "panicking!"
oh my goodness, we were so not ready for holden to arrive.
but life has been undeniably sweeter since the second he did.
he is such a sweet, handsome, happy boy.
and we LOVE him.
matt is away in chicago this weekend {sidenote #2: i miss him} so we decided to do holden's party last weekend.
we invited all his cousins to the lake for the shindig.
we kept it simple.
i found these super cute penguin beachballs online and ordered them a couple weeks back.
those beachballs were our decorations, our activities, and our treat bags!
(for that, i give myself a pat on the back.)
plus, we combined father's day with holden's birthday, so that meant everyone pitched in with the meal.
(double pat on the back.)
perhaps i should plan all our birthday parties around other important celebrations?
anyways..
we had a father's day lunch, then hopped straight to opening birthday presents (because holden couldn't wait one more second to do that!), sang happy birthday, dug into holden's donut birthday cake, raced the beachballs down the waterfall, and then down the hill a few times, and then the kids and dads went for a dip in the lake.
it was a perfect little party for our favorite 3 year old on the planet.
holden felt so special and slept like a log that night.
could this possibly be the cutest birthday boy ever?
it was pretty windy during cake time, so i'm pretty sure the candles were never actually lit. but holden still tried to blow them out!
at the start of the waterfall race:
almost at the end:
and racing down the hill:
happy birthday holden!
aka. ho-bear, ho-man, ho-ee, ho-en, ho-bag, ho-bo.
