Bryce's 3rd Birthday!

Bryce was pretty excited for his birthday this year.  We decided to not do parties with the boys this year and instead have "Rycie Day" and "Cason Day" where we just celebrate as a family but let the birthday boy pick everything we do that day.  Bryce's birthday happened to fall on a Sunday and Mother's Day this year.  We skipped church and he knew exactly what he wanted to do, he had been planning for months.  First up was opening presents from Mom, Dad, Cason, and Grandma right after he woke up.  Then we had some breakfast, got dressed, and Bryce wanted to go get donuts.  We headed to one of the 1,000 donut shops in town and he picked out a sprinkle donut, no surprise to any of us.  

 

Next up was Chuck E Cheese.  No pictures of this but the boys had fun playing the games and collecting tickets to buy the usual twisty straws and plastic dinosaurs.

For lunch, Bryce picked McDonalds.  The last time we ate at McDonalds was shortly before Christmas so Bryce had been talking about going for months.  Kelly refused to eat McD's so we went through the drive through and sat outside the Panda Express next door where Kelly got his lunch.  Bryce was thrilled with his cheeseburger and fries.  

 

Next we headed home for some birthday cake.  Bryce wanted an airplane cake this year so I showed him some pictures online of airplane cakes and he fell in love with a Blue Angels F-18 Hornet.  I studied some pictures and made his cake the day before his birthday.  I made a template out of paper of how I wanted to cut the cake and I love how it turned out.  Including the time it took to bake the cake, make the icing, and decorate it, the cake took me about 6 hours.  I'm so thankful Kelly kept the boys busy so I could get it done!  The vertical stabilizers are cardboard covered in frosting but the rest of the jet is all edible.  I also made him some marshmallow clouds because the boy is obsessed with marshmallows.  Bryce loved his Blue Angels cake!

 

After cake we played with his presents some more, he took a nap, and we went to the park to launch a rocket.  For dinner that night he chose to order pizza from Mr. Jims.  It turns out that all of his favorite things are my favorite things too!  We all had a great day celebrating our little Rycie turning 3!