Joshua is 2!!

Joshua's 2nd Birthday!!

We gave Joshua a Thomas the Tank Engine party!

Grandma Ravert found this "Happy Birthday" banner for .50 cents!!

We had the Joshua's party at a really nice park by our house and we invited a few of Joshua's friends from church and their families!

Birthday boy!

Uncle Christopher found Joshua a Thomas the Tank t-shirt and runners (that light up) at a yard sale, so I saved them for his Thomas the tank party! He was so surprised!! I also found him a Thomas the Tank birthday ribbon to wear, which now he proudly has hanging in his room! ;D

I made Joshua a Thomas the Tank cake...

I started it Saturday night while he was sleeping and finished it Sunday afternoon (also while he was sleeping)! As soon as he woke up he spotted it on the counter and wanted to eat it right then! He kept saying, "THOMAS CAKE! MMMM! NUMMY! EAT!!!! PEASE!" I'd say he was a bit excited ;D

Joshua and Katelyn waiting anxiously for Nathan to light the candle!

The wind was blowing out the candle, so Nathan tried to block the wind while Joshua blew!

and...here he is...Thomas the Tank Engine!

I was finally able to use all my new fondant tools I got for Christmas! I am definitely going to use fondant icing again! It is so fun...after I got used to it anyways :) I don't thing I should have tried such a hard cake for my first time using fondant?!?!?! but, Joshua LOVED his birthday cake, so I am very happy! Yes, I know his face is supposed to be grey, but it was my first time using the food coloring that I did...it colors very well! haha!

Joshua was pointing at the monkey on the bag and doing his monkey noise! It was so cute!

Emma anxiously waiting for Joshua to open the next gift ;)

This toy story ball is what was in the gift bag in the above picture... as soon as he saw the ball, he jumped down saying, "BALL!! OOOOO! BALL!! HA!HA!HA!" If you know Joshua, you know that all you need to give him is a ball and he is SOOOOOO happy! :) Thank you Grandpa and Grandma Turner!

Nathan was finally able to get him back up to his lap to read the card ;)

A bubble mower!!!! "WOOHOO!!" - Joshua

Nathan has recently started cutting our grass for our landlord, and Joshua loves to help Nathan with everything that he can. In this case, he didn't have a mower, so he grabbed his golf club case and started mowing the grass with that :) When we saw him doing this we both were thinking that we should get him a bubble mower for his birthday. Well, we did! but so did the Turner's! HAHA, for real!

Thankfully, Brianna happened to ask me Sunday morning before the party if Joshua had one. I started laughing because I knew that she was going to say they bought him one. I said, well, we bought one for his birthday! She said, "Oh man, so did we!!" It was to funny! I just told them to go a head and give it to him, and we would take ours back and get him something else :)

Bath time fishing pole and fish and bath crayons (which Liarra wanted to keep for herself instead of giving them to Joshua)! :)

Every piece of tissue paper was handed to Emma...

"Emma, hold pease!!" - Joshua

Joshua got some books from the Ball girls!

Sean, Stephanie and Kyle Ball

(Katelyn and Hailey were up close in the gift action)

Matthew! :D

Grandpa and Grandma Turner

(Pastor's parents, they came out for our churches 10th anniversary)

Birthday boy!

Joshua loves his bubble mower!

When he woke up Monday morning, the first thing he did was, "Oh, bubble motor!" as he calls it ;) then started mowing the entire house!

Thank you also to both Grandpa and Grandma Ravert and Grandpa and Grandma Marks!!!!

We took Joshua shopping to Wal-mart so he could spend his birthday money from his grandparents...it was so fun! He didn't really get the whole concept of a shopping spree though! Normally, when we go grocery shopping, I do the groceries and Nathan takes the two boys to the toys and Joshua just runs around and tries everything and he knows that he has to leave the toys when we are done shopping! ;D he loves doing it too! Well, this time he could actually take a couple things home, but he did't exactly grasp that. Whenever he would pick something up, we would ask him, "do you want to get that?" and he would say, "no" and then go on to something else. I guess he was just thinking we were asking him if he wanted to play with that certain toy, not knowing that we were meaning to take it home with him. We eventually picked a couple things out for him that we know he would love ;)

From G&G Ravert he got a "BIG GUN!" (nerf - automatice machine gun with 20 bullets!)

and from G&G Marks he got a "COOTER!" (scooter!)

Both of these toys he plays with ALL the time when he is at his cousins house, so we figured that they were the right things to choose ;) I will post some pictures of those soon!