11.11.11

We welcomed Ryder Norman Yates on 11-11-11, at 7:59 a.m.  He weighed 7 pounds 13 ounces and was 19.25 inches long.  He is absolutely perfect!  We are so in LOVE!

His big brother, Parker, is adjusting pretty well.  He hasn't quite figured out that his little brother can't do everything he can do.  For instance, the other day, he wanted to give his baby brother an underdog in his baby swing :)  Parker got Ryder an elephant stuffed animal (a newer version of the one he has) and he wants to make sure Ryder has it near him at all times.  He's a very good, loving big brother!

Happy Family of 4

The Proud Big Brother

Happy Champagne Thursday!

Cheers!

It's Par-Tee Time!

We celebrated Parker's 3rd birthday with a fun Golf theme.  He loves to go to the golf course with his dad or hit balls in the back yard, so I thought it would be a fun theme.  And thanks to his Uncle Marcus, he has real set of golf clubs, that he got for his birthday last year.  

The Invitation

I had a lot of fun with the decorations.  I bought a few green and white planters and grew some wheat grass, (which grows super fast by the way) and made some flags to stick inside.  I filled vases with golf balls and tees and added some ribbon around the vases.  We had a "Guess the Number of Tee's" game.  The number of tees in the vase was 151 and my Great Aunt won with a guess of 150.  I made a "Happy Birthday Parker" banner with some fun scrapbook paper. I scattered golf tees around the food tables.  We also had a mini putting green set up in the living room with some plastic kid clubs.

We had some fun golf related foods:

Build Your Own Club Sandwiches

Chip Shots - Chips

Hole-in-Ones - White Powdered Doughnut Holes

Sand Traps - Rice Krispie Treats

The Watering Hole - Drink Table with water and lemonade

Arnold Palmers - 1/2 Lemonade & 1/2 Ice Tea

And few other items including: m&m's (dark green, light green & white), fruits, veggies & a cheese tray.

For the cupcakes, I found a frosting applicator that made frosting look like grass and then added golf tees, golf flags (which I made from scrapbook paper & sucker sticks) and mini golf balls.  The "golf balls" were white sixlets that I found at a candy store.  

So many presents!

Make a wish!

Skyping with Aunt Lisa while opening the presents she sent

Opening Presents

The Birthday Boy

I had every intention of getting more pictures, but unfortunately ran out of time.  I'll have to check out what pictures my mom got.

Happy Champagne Thursday!

Cheers!

Trick-or-Treat

Parker had so much fun trick-or-treating this year!  I was a little worried, because last year he only made it to one house and this year he didn't really want to try on his costume before Halloween, so I wasn't sure how he was going to do.  He loved it!  Huge success!  After leaving each house, he would yell "got some" and "next one," it was pretty cute!

Here's my cute little shark

Trying to take a bite out of his baby brother

Daddy and Parker

Our Pumpkins

P for Parker
&
3 for birthday # 3

Trick-or-Treating

Parker and Thatcher trick-or-treating

Trick-or-Treat

Enjoying a sucker after we got home from trick-or-treating

Hope everyone had a Happy Halloween!

Happy Champagne Thursday!

Cheers!

Happy 3rd Birthday, Parker!

It's hard to believe this little guy is turning 3 today!

Enjoying a special birthday cinnamon roll for breakfast this morning.

I hope you enjoy your special day!  You have brought so much joy and love into our lives!

Happy Birthday, Parker!  

Cheers!

Pregnant in the Pumpkin Patch

We visited the Missoula Corn Maze and the Great Pumpkin Patch in the last week, to get in the Halloween spirit.  Parker had a lot of fun. He loved the big hay/corn maze and the mini Parker sized maze!  He is so busy, its hard to get a picture of him standing still.  He gives you about a half second, then says "Got it" and takes off.

Thatcher & Parker
Cutest pumpkins ever!

Running away

Going through a mini obstacle course

Going through the mini maze

T & P

Pumpkin belly & baby belly

Daddy and Parks

Mommy & Parks

Family Picture
(Really wish that tarp wasn't there)

Check out some of last years pumpkin patch pictures here.

Happy Halloween!

Happy Champagne Thursday!

Cheers!

Oh, The Places You'll Go

Parker's room is a work in progress right now and I'm not sure when it will be complete.  Probably not anytime soon.  Sorry little guy.  I was having a hard time deciding what I wanted to do with his room and then, thanks to Pinterest, I saw this and I fell in love with it.  I love this Dr. Seuss book and thought it would be a fun theme for Parker's room.

I already had a large canvas, so all I needed was some yellow and white paint and letter stencils.  The canvas was painted red, so it needed a couple extra coats of yellow paint, but other than that it was pretty easy.  I painted the canvas yellow, then stenciled the letters on with chalk and then painted the letters white.  I love it!  Now, I just need to figure out what I'm going to do with the rest of his room.

Cheers!