Happy Birthday David

David turned four this past Sunday and he had a pretty amazing birthday weekend. We picked him up on Friday and had dinner at David's favorite place - The Lot - with Travis, Carol, Lila and Skyler.  On Saturday, we went to his school picnic and then headed to Fort Worth for Colton's (my favorite nephew) birthday party. Thanks to poor planning, however, we never ended up making it to Fort Worth. Long story, but we made it out of downtown Dallas before the game let out, but had to take Matt back to the house and then Hayley and I made a wrong turn and ended up in the Texas/OU traffic for over an hour. It was HORRIBLE and I was so sad to miss Colton's party. We are hoping to make it up to him in a few weekends when we comes to stay with us. After that fiasco (and a long time in the car), we made it home and David enjoyed spending time with the grandparents and opening gifts.

On Sunday, I made pumpkin bread for David's birthday breakfast and then had a party at Bake and Play Café. Despite me forgetting to send a lot of the invites (if you moved in the past year, your invite is still sitting on the kitchen table with a note to get your new addresses), we had a good turn-out and got to meet a lot of the new kids in David's class. The party was pretty awesome - the kids baked their own pizza and cake and played in the indoor playroom - which worked out well with the rain. David had a blast and got lots of great gifts from all of his friends. Henry was an angel at the party - he was passed around from one person to the next and loved every minute of it. We would not trade anything for David (especially with his amazing personality...the kid has a lot of character), but I think we might have had a lot more kids if the first was more like Henry (minus the pregnancy complications and stay in NICU).

Here are the pictures: