Oh Snow Day!

We actually got a decent amount of snow a few weeks ago and I was finally off work for the afternoon when it happened so I stopped and picked up a sled on clearance on my way home and got Jay bundled up in his snow gear and we went out to have some fun!

He's much more fascinated by snow this winter than he was last year!

 

Checking out the sled

 

 

Riding in the sled

 

 

 He started picking up chunks of snow as we went along lol...

 

 

I sat him in the snow and rolled around in it... somehow he ended up almost down in the neighbor's driveway, lol...

Choo Choo, Jay is 2!

While Jay's actual birthday was the 4th, we celebrated it the day before as the 4th was a Monday this year.

We decided to invite family as well as a few friends with younger kids and we did a walk-in party on a Sunday afternoon at Chuck E Cheese, as Jay loves riding all the rides there. We brought Thomas and Friends party decor, and after getting bumped from the long tables down front (apparently "they're all reserved, whether there's a reserved sign on the table or not"... whateva!) we took up a slew of booths off to the side in the tot area, so that worked out. Before hubby and I could get our coats off and set our supplies down Jay was throwing a fit cuz he wanted to take off and go play, lol...

Gotta say, considering we had 6 kids total, plus 2 teenagers and a handful of adults, it wasn't too bad cost-wise to do a walk-in party - we bought cups for pop for those that wanted it and got free water cups for everyone else, bought 200 tokens (with coupons) that we split up among the kids. The cake was made by our regular cake lady and I bought the party decor and favors from Party City.

The kids all seemed to have a blast though, so it was a fun time! Jay got several new Thomas toys that he loves, among a few other fun ones he seems to be enjoying!

Here's some photos of the fun!

 

He didn't want to ride the kiddie carousel - he wanted to ride the big derby racing horsey!

 

 

Going for a ride with Chuck E Cheese!

 

His 2nd birthday cake

 

He tried to grab the candle, lol...

 Hubby's face in this one cracks me up!
We think Jay was trying to "beep" Chuck E's nose like we do at home, lol...

 

No more spam!

Be ready for an influx of posts, as I have some time (and energy!) to blog and quite a few things to post!

But first...

No more anonymous comments - sorry folks, ya need an openID/Google Account to comment.

I know everyone hates Captchas and the Blogger ones with numbers in them now are super annoying, but without having to go back to putting those annoying things on the comment form, well... I end up with 31 anonymous spam comments on a post about the Gossip Girl series finale (among other older posts)... yeah... not a genuine comment on that post... kinda disappointing...

So yeah... no more anonymous comments - sorry! But it's not like most people don't have a Google account these days anyway...