Birthday Extravaganza

We celebrated all the kids birthdays on Saturday. Because they are so close together, it's easier and more fun to combine their parties! We had a blast!

My friend Adrienne makes spectacular cakes and so I had her make a cake for each of the kids. She made Lightening McQueen's for the boys and a Princess cake for Hadley. They turned out great and tasted good too! Thanks so much Adrienne! You are the best!

Hadley in her birthday tutu!

Kris, Chad and Aunt Kat

Chelsea running through the flooded yard!

Chelsea, Caden, Carter & Addy

Caden got back in with his clothes on! So fun!

Tanner with his birthday cake!

Carter with his birthday cake!

Hadley with her birthday cake!

Carter eating his cake.

Chelsea & Makayla

Addy & Chelsea

Me and Dad, we look like twins!

Brett with one of McQueen's eyeballs!

Chelsea and Makayla

Chris, Cam, Alicia & Holly

Hadley loved opening presents!

Carter excited to open presents!

Tanner with his Monster Truck!

Hadley with her Pandora bracelet from my mom!

Family enjoying the party!

Jill, Eloise & Grandma

Grandpa helping the boys on the Jeep!

Tyler and Tanner with his new bike!

Justin & Lisa

Happy Eloise!

Chris, Cam & Chris in Belly!

Cooper!

Tanner riding his bike like a pro!

Carter and Cooper kissing each other goodbye!

Preschool Summer Camp

Preschool Summer Camp started on Monday and ended today. It was a blast! The kids had a great time and came home with all sorts of crafts and things they had been working on during the week. Camp was from 9 AM to noon this week. I tried to pack in as many adventures as I could in those 3 hours! On Tuesday Lisa took the boys home from camp and so I had the whole day with just Hadley. Easy Street!! Although, I was able to get a ton of stuff done and the house stayed very very clean, it was a little too quiet and I am so happy to have the brothers back home!

First day of camp with the Compton Brothers! This place will never be the same! I'm not really sure what the deal with all the muscle flexing was this day, but it was Carters birthday and so.......they wanted to flex! We squeaked into preschool camp right under the gun with Carter-you had to be 3 and potty trained and he turned 3 the first day of camp and as for the potty thing-he's got the pee pee down pat and as long as I stay on him with the poo poo, he's golden! I was a bit nervous about all that but he did great! No accidents and all the kids reported that he told the teacher when he had to go potty! Hooray!

This was kind of my first experience with preschool camp too! Tanner couldn't go the summer before he started preschool because he wasn't 3 yet (or potty trained for that matter) and then last year Lisa picked up Tanner and brought him home for me because I had just had Hadley and was totally inept, there was no way I was going to be able to get out of the house by 9 AM, let alone look presentable or act coherent!

Carter! The big 3 year old ready for his first day of preschool camp!

Tanner! Almost 5 and ready for his first day of preschool camp!

The Compton Brothers going to preschool together!

Tanner, Carter, Chelsea & Makayla all ready for preschool camp!

Carter Turns 3!

Carter turned 3 on June 20. He kicked off his 3rd birthday with his first day of preschool summer camp. I was so nervous that he would cry and not want to go because he seems to need to be with me all the time. We got there and he and Tanner and Chelsea and Makayla all just ran off and started playing! It was GREAT! Why did I worry? He's a big 3 year old now!
He got to chose what we had for dinner that night and he chose hot dogs, chips and carrots with dip. So, that is what we ate! It was delicious!

Yummy birthday hot dog!

The big 3 year old! I can't believe it has been 3 years since you were born Carter! You are such a fun and loving boy who never ceases to amaze us! We love you so much!

Carters 3rd birthday dinner with the family!

Carters birthday cake!

Happy Birthday Carter!

Happy First Birthday Hadley!

Hadley turned 1 today! All the kids have birthdays very close together but I think it's important that we take the time to celebrate each of them individually as well as have a party for all 3 of them! So, we celebrated just Hadley tonight and it was fun! We had tacos, ate on the patio and even put a candle on the cake for her (or Tanner) to blow out! She didn't understand anything that was going on, but I'm positive she had a great time!

Her Caterpillar cake with one pink candle on it!

Eating her cake, she LOVED the cake!

Happy first birthday baby girl! We love you so much! I can't believe one year ago today we met you face to face for the first time ! You are such a happy and wonderful little girl and we can't imagine our lives without you! You have brightened our lives and definitely made our family complete!

Hooray for Great Neighbors!

When we moved, we knew the house we were moving in to like the backs of our hands, but we had no idea who we would be living around. It's kind of a scary thing and it can easily go one way or the other. We got so lucky! Our street is filled with little boys and girls all around the same age as our 3 kids. Even better, I love their Mommy's so our play dates are wonderful! Today we celebrated Nathans 2nd birthday! It was great!


Hadley waiting for her cupcake!

Braden!

The Big Birthday Boy Nathan!

This is baby Taylor with her cute little sunglasses on! She even has her ears pierced!

Kaitlyn, Brennan, Hadley & Carter having cupcakes!

Baby Taylor and Hadley! Hadley was loving on Taylor so much, it was adorable!

Carter, Kaitlyn & Brennan waiting for cupcakes!


*Missing from the pictures is Baby Zoe and her big brother Cooper! I have no idea where they were while I was taking pictures!*