Happy Birthday, Maxton!

My baby is four years old. Where has the time gone? As most everyone knows, Maxton is a train freak. We went to the Adobe Mountain Railroad park for a ride on the train then home for spaghetti and "rainbow" cake per Max's requests. Lots of new Thomas trains and stations to play with and a really cool "trash truck" were among Max's birthday goodies. As I type this, he is laying by my feet with 18 of his little engines connected saying, "MOM, IT'S THE BIGGEST TRAIN YOU EVER SAW!"
Love this kid SO much!

Outside

What fabulous weather we had this past weekend! We spent our Sunday doing yardwork and made a trip to Lowe's to get some plants. The kids (and Andy) played in the driveway riding bikes and skateboards.

I found some great little tubs in the dollar section at Target, filled them with plants, and have them tucked all over the place. I also found a super cool FLOUR tin at Goodwill and found an even COOLER plant to put in it. Here's some of my pretties:

Pretty productive, I'd say.....and a great time to be outside.

Mylo's Birthday Extravaganza

Yesterday was a CRAZY busy day. The boys, my mom and I started out early and headed to Goodwill for 50% off Day. This is a bi-weekly favorite activity of ours. We love us some Goodwill. Maxton found an awesome Christmas train to go around the tree!
Next, we headed to Cool Cuts for some haircuts. The boys' heads were starting look abnormally shaped due to their long, flowing manes. Outside of the "barber shop", there is a large fountain/garden that the boys always like to go see. Snapped some good "after" pics.

We headed home to start cooking. Mylo requested a lemon birthday cake. I added a layer of raspberry preserves to the middle, just for some pizzaz.

I decided it was probably a good idea to open the presents up early so the kiddos could play and be outta my hair while I was cooking. The boys had a good time playing with Aunt Rhondi too!

Included in the loot was a new beginner skateboard, cap guns with a pistol, rifle, holster, bandana, cowboy wagon for cowboys/indians set, nerf guns, etc. Great day!