Grammy & Gramps last day here

On Grammy & Gramps last day here we tried to pack in some fun activities.

First on Oliver's list was cake for breakfast

Yummy!

Next, my cousin Robynn had brought over a project, so Oliver worked on that with Grammy. Too cute, thanks Robynn & Grammy!

And voila, a cute pumpkin that he finished all by himself! He loved working on this with Grammy and kept asking her if she had any more projects for him.

Next, one of Oliver's favorite things: basketball in an empty space

Oliver & Gramps played like this for almost two hours...Oliver had so much fun!

This video is hilarious and is actually about twice as long, but I had size limitations for upload, so I had to cut it in half...still cute! I love seeing the two of them playing together!

To finish off the week, my parents wanted to take us out to dinner. We went to Abuelo's (Grandpa in Spanish) for Mexican food and it was soooo good! I was attempting to get Oliver to smile for pictures.

Oliver & Grammy before dinner

I love this picture Clayton captured for us!

Thanks so much for coming to visit Grammy & Gramps! We loved spending time with you! Can't wait to see you at Christmas!

ASI Gymnastics & Play-Doh

Oliver LOVES gymnastics and has now been participating once/week for almost four months. He has moved up to the new level, so I know longer participate with him so now I get to bring my camera and try (I use that loosely) to capture some of his moves. Unfortunately, I still didn't know what mode to use the camera on, but a couple of them turned out okay. Gramps was able to come with us to see Oliver in action and really enjoyed watching him. They usually start out jumping on the trampolines and practice doing seat drop, doggy bounces, freezing, etc. Then they move onto the circle where they do activities with songs and stretching. Then the beam circuit where they walk on a balance beam different ways and various other things, they also do a floor routine circuit where they practice donkey kicks, front and back rolls, handstands, jumping, etc and finally they go to a block pit that has a huge swing and is a lot of fun. We go early enough in the morning that there is typically only one or two other kids in the class so Oliver gets lots of individual coaching time.

Oliver waiting class to start

Oliver on the trampolines -- his favorite!

This is the beam circuit. This is not Oliver's regular coach, but she is good and has taught him a few times. Oliver likes Coach Ginger, but he loves Coach Jason.

video of Oliver walking on the balance beam VERY carefully

video of Oliver jumping over the green dots and freezing

Oliver loved playing Play-Doh with Gramps before lunch

He is catching on!

He wouldn't touch his first cake that I spent soooo many hours making

His second cake, he was totally stoked about and after encouraged he totally dug into the frosting

This year he was excited

And when I turned around to get the knife to cut his cake he was already digging in!

Construction Party Day

My morning was crazy busy, and I didn't leave myself quite the amount of time I should have, but all worked out in the end. Unfortunately I totally forgot to feed Oliver breakfast so he was STARVING by the time lunch came around. Despite having an empty stomach, Oliver was a fantastic birthday boy. He was so, so, so good at sharing his new toys with his cousin Ace and I was so proud of my big boy! It turned out to be a great party. Thanks to Grammy, Gramps, Grandma, Grandpa, Tricia, Steven and Ace for making his day very special! And thank you to those who called and sent gifts that couldn't be here, we missed you being part of the party!

the party invite

my mountain wall with construction trucks...I tried to make the wall 3D by adding packaging paper behind to be like rocks

Close up of some of the trucks. Each of Oliver's cousins were driving a truck.

I'm not good about remembering to take pictures of the decorations, so luckily my Dad took care of that for me! :) Thanks Dad!

Oliver & Ace decorated their party hats and played with trucks and tractors in their Home Depot aprons.

Ace checking out the tractor

Oliver & Ace playing with Oliver's new cash register

Time for lunch; here is the spread. Everything was yellow in keeping theme with the construction party.

enjoying lunch

my ravenous little guy couldn't even look at me to take a picture!

getting ready to open his gifts

construction DVD

Lincoln logs

cool space station and book

and a TRACTOR!

I had to post this picture. Clayton and my Dad so nicely stayed up until 2:00 AM building this monster! Thanks guys!

I loved this picture of Uncle Steven showing Oliver how to work the levers

The party group -- thanks for letting me take so many pictures to get a good one! :)

THE CAKE! (Tom Thumb bakery so wonderfully made this cake upon my request and did an AMAZING job!)

The birthday boy with his cake!

blowing the candles out

Excavating his cake -- too cute!

Oliver totally dug the frosting this year again!

Must have wet nap.

our family

The Evans

Grandma & Grandpa

Grammy & Gramps

And last, I thought this picture was too funny of Oliver and Aunt Tricia!