Joel turned two years old on Sunday, February 03!!

We had a party to celebrate with friends on Saturday (Feb 02). We had so much fun!

For months I had been planning to have a train themed party, but Joel obviously had other ideas... We took him to the store to buy decorations and he picked out Sesame Street "Melmo" (that's how Joel says Elmo). And just like that all my cute train party ideas from Pinterest went down the drain! HAHA! Joel loved his "Melmo" party though, and that's all that matters!



 

 

Since Joel's actual birthday was on a Sunday this year we couldn't really do anything fun other than go to a park. That was fine with him though! He LOVES being outside and playing at parks. We decided to bundle up & walk to a park so we could break in his new wagon. Needless to say he had a blast!

 

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I love to compare photos to see how much our sweet boy has grown and changed..

4th of July

We had a great time celebrating Joel's first 4th of July!

Our fun started on Sunday night.. We stayed up past our bedtime and joined our friends, the C's, for a local firework show. {It was the first time I've ever been freezing cold while watching fireworks by the way, which was super weird to me! I'm use to sweating my butt off in the southern heat!} We were nervous about how Joel would handle the loud booms but HE LOVED IT! He seriously giggled the entire time! It was too cute!! (I've been kicking myself for not taking a picture or a video of him that night!)

On the 4th we hung out with the C's again. We went over to their house and had a yummy lunch. Afterwards we all went to a street fair in B-Island. The fair turned out to be really lame but we enjoyed the company, sunshine and fresh air.  :)