Kai's Birthday Party

Kai's Birthday party was a lot of fun to plan and get ready for.  We ended up moving his party to Ben's work so we had more room for more people coming than we expected....Ok, I am going to complain for just a little bit.  We thought we were going to have more people come since I had an RSVP regrets only on his invitations, well only a couple people RSVP'd but...we had a lot of people not come which is fine but there was no RSVP.  It was pretty frustrating since we made special arrangements for more people, including more food.  ANYWAY, if you are reading this just take note to be sure to RSVP to people's invitations you receive!

Ok back to the party.  We played a couple games, one were T/F trivia questions about Kai and the other was a picture timeline of Kai that they needed to put in order. My sister Alisha won both of them, so we decided to get the second winners as well.  My sister Jamie won one of them and Ben's cousin Heidi won the other.

Here is the room set up before the guests arrived.

Kai enjoying his lunch.

Trying to get into his gifts, he was excited to get playing with his new bus!

Kai did not appreciate the loud singing.

We forgot to open gifts before the cake so we had to multi task.

What a messy baby!  He almost ate the entire cake!

While we were in Maui I put together a video slideshow of Kai's first year that we debuted at the party.  I can't get the video to upload because it is too big, so you will have to visit my facebook page if you would like to see it.

Kai's Birthday

Our little guy turned 1!  

When he woke up he walked into the family room and started heading for the kitchen but his activity table we got him for his birthday caught his eye and he turned and went right to it.  He played with it forever until we finally made him go eat breakfast.  He loves making the music turn on, then he goes and dances until it turns off, then he goes and starts all over.

Here he is trying to blow out his candle before we even got it to him.  This was the only time he tried to blow his candle out.  We couldn't get him to do it for his birthday cake or at his birthday party.

 

This is Kai blowing his candle out, it was so cute!

Kai's play group went to the Farm on his Birthday, which I thought would be the perfect activity for him. He enjoyed looking at all the animals, but thought they were all dogs and he did his "whoof" noise the entire time we were there.  You can see in this picture his lips are pursed saying it :)

"Here chicky chicky!"

He loves to play in the dirt and rocks.  Here is his all-boy dirty face.

He was actually pretty good at opeing his gifts, but this is the only picture I have of him with his present.  He got his activity table in the morning and a touch and feel book and bath tub boat after dinner.

 

Here is his really cute cake he got from Cold Stone.  I was really happy with how it turned out.  Kai really likes ice cream so I thought this cake was fitting.

I thought this picture was SO FUNNY!
Scared of the smoke I guess :)

Sugar rush!

Food Coma...

Ben's Birthday

Well, the old man turned 29 this year (sounds like a big celebration is in order for next year).

Here he is with his breakfast burrito from Rancheritos, go ahead and judge us we LOVE these things!

He's actually on the phone with work right now, but he popped his head in to pose for a picture. Don't ask me why he answered his phone right before we were going to sit down for breakfast, I had to sit and stare at my burrito while it called my name for what felt like forever ;)

Hangin' out at his birthday party with his siblings and parents.

Blowing out all 29 candles with all his little helpers.

I thought this was a cute picture of Kai at the birthday party.  He is getting so big!

Opening one of his gifts. A frame for his PMP certificate.  I am proud of you Benny boy!

October Days

October was a very busy month for us with lots going on.  Enjoy my next few posts of pictures to see what we've been up to!

After we returned from Hawaii Kai was extra clingy and snugly, I loved it! Here he is after his bath snuggling up close.

Kai LOVES to play in the dishwasher

He was a little naughty and stuffed his clean clothes in the toilet.

Kai with his Great Grandma and Grandpa Moser.

(something to go in his time capsule)

Hawaii

At the beginning of October Ben had to go to Maui for business so we decided to take advantage of the opportunity and make a trip of it.  It was a hard decision but we decided to leave Kai at home with my sister Jamie. 

Our first stop was Maui, we didn't have a lot of time to see anything since Ben had to work most the time.  I planned on just using my time alone by the pool or ocean but it was overcast the entire time and too chilly to lay around in a swim suit.  Regardless of the circumstances I really enjoyed my time alone, except for one day when I really, really missed Kai, but other than that I was good!

 The next stop was Oahu where we spent the rest of our time.  This is us being weird on our balcony outside our hotel room.  We had a beautiful view of the ocean along Waikiki Beach.

 Hanauma Bay

 Pearl Harbor was very humbling and educational.  It was Ben's second time going but my first time and I learned so much about WW II that I never knew.

 Ben's parents joined us in Oahu as well.  They have been to Hawaii a few times and knew all sorts of things we could do.  They kept us busy!

 If you look hard you can see the U.S.S Arizona Memorial.

 This is how pineapples grow, who knew!  The
Dole Plantation was a must see and pretty interesting.

 This is a cool tree we saw at the Dole Plantation.  We both have never seen anything like it!

 This is Pali lookout on a rainy day, we came back a different day when it was clear.

We went and saw the Laie Hawaii Temple before we spent the rest of the day the Polynesian Cultural Center.  It was beautiful, we went on a Monday so we were not able to attend but we did go into the visitors center and watched a movie they had.  It has been a while since I have gone to a Temple's visitors centers, it was a nice break from the world.

 Canoe ride through the PCC.

 Me playing dress up with Ben, he's a good sport :)

 I was very excited to finally get a fresh flower lei when we went to the PCC Luau. 

 The PCC was haunted at night for the month of October.

   Ben and his sweet mom.

 This place had the best pancakes and some very yummy coconut syrup.

Pali lookout on a clear day.

This was our last sunset before we left Hawaii.  It was a fun trip but we were both ready to go home and see our sweet baby Kai.

Day at the Park

The other day I discovered the Whittier Park, which I absolutely LOVE!  It has a section for older children and a section for toddlers. Kai was able to go off and play on his own and even access the slide all by himself.  He had so much fun exploring everything and playing with the other children.