Nick and Eric are 3!

It's very strange to think they have gone from this:

 

To this:

And yes, Eric is wearing Ryan's own personal Darkwing Duck fannypack in this picture :)

Their birthday was officially on Monday, but since I wanted their Father to be present for their party I put it on Sunday afternoon. It was a smashing success, woohoo!

First there was the cake:

 

Ally decorated this one all by herself, which is pretty impressive.

Then there was the decorating:

When Nicholas woke up from his nap he ran into the kitchen screaming, "It' my party! My party! It's my BIRTHDAY PARTY!" Pretty intense!

Then came the time to blow out the candles!

Then it was time for presents! It was a little out of control how much they got spoiled this year...They got a movie, 4 books, golf clubs, a Buzz Lightyear and a Woody, a fancy pants musical Winnie the Pooh book, and a ridiculous amount of tools. They put Handy Manny to shame!

They had a blast, and they are still talking about it. This is what the aftermath was:

Ha!

Oops I did...or I guess didn't do it again...

That would be posting. So this is what we are going to cover in this post:

1. Swimming
2. Utah County Fair (LAME...the kids liked it though...enough sheep to choke a camel!)
3.Haircuts (again)
4. Petting Zoo (where you don't get to pet anything really, but still very fun!)
5. Potty Training

The pool that is close to our house is the one in Lindon. To anyone with tiny children, I would highly recommend it! Perfectly sized waterslides and a lazy river...it's awesome!

All I can say for the Utah County Fair, is that the one in Jerome, Idaho could kick it's butt. Since my kids have no clue what they are missing out on, they thought it was crazy fun. They saw cows, sheep (seriously like 9,000 sheep) chickens, rabbits and even some guinea pigs. Nicholas successfully used a public restroom! Woohoo! We had some snocones and the kids got to ride in the Strawberries and on a carousel...twice!

 

As you may have noticed their hair was starting to get on the shaggy side.

Off to Cookie Cutters we went!

As usual, they look fantastic!









About 2 days later we went to the petting zoo at Thanksgiving Point, which was tons of fun! They got to feed goats and llamas and ride on horses and go for a wagon ride. On the way home we got lunch at Burger King and Liam was just too tired to make it the rest of the way back to our house!

Last but NOT LEAST!

Nicholas is potty trained!

I'm waiting on Eric for a couple more weeks, he understands the process, he just doesn't pay any attention to when he needs to go, which is not very much fun for me! I'm tossing in a picture of Eric trying to do what Dad does in the bathroom...cuz it's cute. Then there is Nick, showing off his super cool Sesame Street underpants, yay!

 

On a side note, everytime I go to the bathroom Nick informs me that I get a blue M&M!

I have now caught up! Be prepared to see pictures from Nick and Eric' 3rd birthday! (Which I'm kind of stressed out about! Too many things I need to do in not enough time!)