Lawson is 3!

On Tuesday the 21st, Lawson turned 3.  It was such a busy day (my night to teach my college class) and I was so sad I didn't really get to see him much, but my parents took good care of him that night.  Brad arrived in town today, so we're celebrating this weekend, and next weekend is his big birthday party with all his little friends from school.  Stay tuned for what I'm sure will be some epic pictures and anecdotes!

Every year on his birthday, I've made a little video of Lawson's pictures from the previous year.  They're a lot of hard work to put together, but I'm always pleased with the end result.  I hope you enjoy getting to see all of Lawson's cool experiences from his 3rd year of life.  Click on the link below to be directed to the video:

Lawson is 3

Party Time!

Back in July, I blogged about Lawson's friend, Mikey.  The two are still inseparable and have started refering to each other as "my best friend Mikey/Lawson".  It's so cute to watch!  I had no idea kids could be this close to a friend, this early. 

Today was another friend's birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese, a place that tends to freak Lawson out with all the noise and commotion.  But he had a blast today and played with all kinds of stuff he doesn't normally touch...mostly because his friends were there - especially Mikey.  What a fun day!

Playdate!

On Sunday afternoon, we had a playdate with Lawson's friend, Heath, from school.  Since it's still all-out summer here (highs in the low 90s), Heath's parents and I decided to take the kids to our local park that has a splash pad.  The boys had such a good time running around in the water and climbing on the playground equipment. 

Lawson doesn't like the shower, so this particular part of the splash pad took some warming-to.  This cracks me up:

I know, I know...

So, it's been another month since I last posted...  Sorry, we've been pretty busy here.  School has been wonderful this year!  I have an amazing group of kids and I really love what I'm doing.  But the first of the year is always a little crazy and then I've been coming home to a new house to unpack/decorate.  After an enormous amount of help from my family, the house is really looking great!  It's so nice to have more space!  I have a few small projects left to finish before I can declare the house officially "finished", but it's awfully close. 

There hasn't been a whole lot of picture-taking going on lately, but I did manage to get a few last weekend for Labor Day.  As we move into fall, I'm sure we'll have a lot more stuff going on that is "picture-worthy".  Stay tuned!

My folks found this gigantic bear at Costco and thought it would make a good "welcome to your new house" gift.  Lawson loves it!

Manly bonding over the grill with Grandpa:

Um, not sure what to write as a caption for this one:

The most fun part of the day for Lawson is when we were finishing up the setup for his bedroom, Grandma ran the vacuum...and let him jump on for a ride.  We all howled with laughter!