noah's construction-themed 2nd birthday party!

we celebrated noah's 2nd birthday over the weekend at our house with a construction-themed party for our construction-obsessed 2 year old!  we bought a bunch of cute construction decorations, balloons, and his t-shirt on amazon.  we made the food tags and printed them out.

we had pizza and construction-themed snacks followed by chocolate peanut butter cake for dessert.

tools = utensils 

concrete = hummus

traffic light = red, yellow, and green bell peppers

wood chips = corn tortilla chips

timber = pretzel sticks

nuts and bolts = chex mix

safety cones = slices of pizza

spare tires = mini chocolate covered doughnuts

fuel station:

boulders = ice cubes

gasoline = lemonade

diesel = iced tea

he had a blast seeing everyone and opening presents!  happy birthday, noah!

love, laurie

ryan's surprise 40th birthday party!

ryan's 40th birthday was on wednesday, and i surprised him with a surprise 40th birthday party on wednesday night!  i told him that the three of us were going to go out to dinner at his favorite restaurant.  little did he know that for the past two months i've been planning a surprise party for him!  (the last time i planned a surprise birthday party for ryan was when he turned 21 and i can't believe that was 19 years ago already.)

i'm thrilled that he was genuinely surprised and had no idea what i had been planning.  it was so nice to see so many of our family and friends there to celebrate.  the food was delicious, the cake was tasty, the music was great, and overall we had a wonderful time.

happy 40th birthday, ryan!

love, laurie