Reid's 3rd Birthday Party

On Friday morning, February 3rd, we celebrated Reid's 3rd birthday at Jump!Zone with 18 of his little friends... I think it's safe to say that everyone had a great time! This post has LOTS of pictures, so here it goes...

The party invites (front)

(back)

The birthday boy!

Thomas the Train cake (of course!)

Our family arrived a little early to set up, so Reid had a blast getting to play!

Pops and Cousin Annabel

KK and Reider

Everyone got in on the fun before the party started! (I have mainly videos b/c it was hard to not get blurry photos... I'll do some videos in the next post!)

A few attractions at Jump Zone

Daddy and Reid

Grandma & Cousin Annabel

Aunt Candice and Annabel

...let the party begin!

Sam & Reid playing some basketball

Miles & Lillie

Reid and Riley (holding hands!!!)

Crosby, Sam, Reid, & Cole

Reid & Molly

The Party Room

Reid & Jack Michael

Singing 'Happy Birthday'!

Blowing out his candle

Alexee & Crosby

Hugs from Sam

Reid wasn't waiting around for us to cut the cake... haha!

I'd say he did a pretty good job!

Owen, Cole, & Reid

One happy birthday boy!

Ben & Annabel

After the party, the whole family came back to our house to eat lunch and open presents

We are so thankful for everyone who came to celebrate with Reid! It was such a special day and we are forever grateful for our BIG boy!

FEBRUARY 5TH

‎February 5th is such a special day in our family... 3 years ago today, we were meeting our baby boy for the very first time... He was 48 hours old. Our lives were forever changed!

To see more about this incredible day, CLICK HERE.

3 Years Old - February 3

Happy 3rd Birthday to our miracle baby (now big) boy! (2/3/09) Hard to believe that it's already been three years since we were anxiously waiting in Austin, TX to bring you home with us forever. We love you more than you will ever know!

Reid's Newborn Picture

6 Months Old

1 Year Old

2 Years Old

3 Years Old

To read my post from just three short years ago... CLICK HERE

Mommy and Daddy love you so very much, Michael Reid! We are so proud of the little man you have and are becoming. And we are forever grateful to your amazing birth family for entrusting you to us - what a precious gift!

10 Years - February 2nd

10 years ago I was privileged to marry this man (02/02/02). We were both so young and neither of us could have known all of the things we were about to face (both good and not-so-good). Through it all, Ben has shown nothing but courage, patience, kindness, faithfulness and most importantly... Love. He has shown me great love.

As I stated earlier, Ben and I had the opportunity to escape for a long weekend to celebrate our 10 year anniversary - we had a blast! He took me to Nashville, TN where we got to stay at the Union Station Hotel... one of our new favorites! We slept, shopped, saw Music Row, ate some GREAT food (Sunset Grill, Pancake Pantry, etc), went to the strip, and just hung out together... Such a great weekend! Here are a few pics...

Our beautiful hotel - Union Station

Me and my love

Reid's Preschool Birthday Party

We can hardly believe that our baby boy is turning 3 YEARS OLD! I mean 3 is BIG... really big. I have no clue how it came so quickly!

We have a HUGE week planned with lots of celebrating and all of our family coming in - we are so excited! On Tuesday, Jan 30th, KK was the first to arrive to help Mommy get everything prepared. She was such a huge help! And an added bonus is that she got to join me at Reid's preschool birthday party on Thursday morning, Feb 2nd. Here are a few pics of Reid and his classmates...

Reid had to take Thomas the Train cupcakes, of course - they were a huge hit!

All of the kids waiting patiently while we set out their cupcakes...

The birthday boy!

Look at all these kiddos - their teachers are so brave! Ha!

A picture with Mommy

And, of course, we had to do a silly pic...

Reid and his KK

On Thursday after the party, Grandma and Pops arrived... Doc flew in... and even Aunt Candice and "Baby Cousin Annabel" flew in from Manhattan, NY. Everyone was so excited to celebrate with Reid! Here is a little schedule of the next few days... pics to come!

THURSDAY, FEB 2nd: Reid's School Party, The whole family arrives!, Mommy & Daddy's 10 Year Wedding Anniversary, Dinner with the entire family at Doe's Steakhouse in Downtown (Yummy!)

Friday, February 3rd: REIDER IS 3!!!, Jump!Zone Birthday Party (10am), Lunch and Opening presents at our house, Daddy surprises Mommy and takes her out of town to celebrate our anniversary! (Grandma, Pops, Aunt Candice, and Annabel stayed the weekend with Reid)

It was such a fun few days with much celebrating!

Random Happenings

My apologies for being absent from the blogosphere since our Christmas updates... we've been quite busy around here with a certain little 3 year old! What have we been doing, you might ask? Well... playing hard, of course! Here are a few random pictures from our daily life that I took off of my iphone...

The streets of Little Rock will never be the same! Reid with his two buddies, Avery & Owen... they have a blast riding their new 4-wheelers together!

We love having our friend, Carson, spend the night! Sweet friends =)

Boys night!

Reid and his little buddy, Cole-Cole, having a blast at Larry's Pizza

Oh... and the birthday parties... we do LOTS of birthday parties! Here's Owen's 3rd Bday party at Chuck E. Cheese!

Someone has to be JUST LIKE Daddy...

Love this picture of my two men!

Blog Catch Up!

It's been such a busy few weeks around here - possibly my favorite time of the year! We've celebrated Reid's 3rd birthday, our 10 year wedding anniversary, and February 5th - the day we met Reid for the very first time just 3 short years ago. I have a lot of pictures to post in the next few blog entries, so... GET READY!