Hanging out with Friends :-)

 A couple days before Brett's birthday, Laura, Bill, Abby, and Jackson came over to give him his birthday presents. This has been a tradition of ours since the kids first birthdays, and even if Brett or Abby is having a birthday party, we always give the gifts one on one :-) After Brett opened his presents, the Lokers stayed for dinner and play time. Of course, it was a bit crazy at times, but oh so much fun!!

Laura often picks out Brett's birthday cards from Snapfish and then puts photographs of the kids on them. Such a cute idea! One of these years I will follow suit :-)

After opening the card it was time to open presents! They gave him a cool train t-shirt with a 4 on it (which he quickly tossed aside until the day of his birthday when he was so excited to wear it!), a Thomas DVD, and a stuffed cat that has a remote control so you can play hide and seek with. THAT was definitely the hit that night (but I didn't get any pics!) :-)

Abby and Brett had fun using stencils on our window! This was actually a gift Brett got from our friends, the Boone's, last year for his birthday, and it is still a big hit!

After dinner they snuggled up with some blankets on the floor to watch T.V. There was no quiet time for Jackson though! He was on the go all night :-)

How cute are they?!

Since our DVD player isn't working, Brett and Abby watched Rudolph in Brett's room on the mini DVD player. Somehow they both fit into Brett's toddler bed just fine. There were only a few squabbles over space :-)

Then it was time for the real fun to begin! Jumping off the bed into a pile of pillows!! I think they could've done this all night if we let them!!

Can you tell they were having fun?!

And, of course, Jackson had to check out the fun too :-) Look at that cute face!!