We celebrated James' fourth birthday with Mamaw, Papaw, Gram, Papa, and a handful of James' friends at the playground in our neighborhood. At his request, we had a Transformers pinata and I made a Transformers chocolate cake (tasted good, looked kinda scary). We rescheduled his party one day later after a stomach bug kept him at home the day of the original birthday party.
Dan put chairs out early in the morning to save a spot for us to watch the parade in front of the Sippin' Cow Cafe. The rain almost spoiled the parade, but it prevailed and we walked away with smiling faces and lots of candy!
We drove to Pennsylvania the day after a record breaking blizzard. They had about 2 feet of snow on the ground that hung around for Christmas Day. Dan helped the kids build two snowmen and one snow fort. James and Hayes didn't even complain about the pink snow suits we borrowed from their cousins.