Cake Video

Video of Leyton's first cake:



Gracias to Francisco (Paco) Labrador for showing me how to embed a high quality YouTube video instead of putting up with the cruddy blogger video module.

For those of you who get the email, you may have to click the post title to jump to the blog to see the video.  I'm not sure how this will come thru.  Also, if you are having trouble with a slow stream, change the video quality from 720P to something lower.

Ambush!

Griffin and his buddy Andrew were tooling around taunting people in his Gator at Leyton's birthday party.  Monster Grandpa decided to show them who is boss.  I'll let the pictures tell the rest of the story.

CAKE!

Leyton's first birthday cake experience:

Delivery from Mom.

Fingers in the frosting.

Eeeeww, its all gooey.

But, surprisingly delicious.

Hmm, I could rock the frosting Hitler stache for a while...  Or...

Nom Nom Nom.  Me like cake!

Leyton's Birthday Party Extravaganza!

We had about 50 people at the house this weekend melting outside for Leyton's first birthday party.  Loads of pics to follow:

We had a slip and slide, baby pool, and Monster Grandpa & Uncle Jamie manning the squirt guns (these were supposed to be for the kids, but is anybody really surprised?)

I designed a killer golf game for the party that would rival a Jack Nicklaus course.  Not seen at the bottom of the hill is a bullseye that I painted with orange marking paint, a 5-gallon bucket in the middle, complete with sand trap and water hazard.  Caution tape to keep the kids from getting a club to the head, and a white board to keep score.  Sweet.  Lookin' good Tim and Nice Grandpa!

Baby pool for the kiddos.  Not bad for $10.

Presents!!!

Chocolate cake with chocolate frosting for those with a sophisticated pallet like mine.

White cake with boring frosting for the rest of the peeps.

I make this look good.

Pre-partying with Nice Grandpa.

Chillin with my homey Isaac.

Isabel....  How you doin'?

Rub a dub dub....

The bathtub in our vacation condo was HUGE!

Ski Lift Ride

Griffin and I took a ride up the ski lift at the place we stayed on vacation in Virginia.

He biffed running from the lower lift to the upper lift.  

 We saw some diggers on the way up.  He was pretty excited about this.

Picture at the top of the mountain.  This trail was 4 miles long to the lookout.  We walked about 200' and Griffin said he was tired. 

Leyton is 1!

Leyton turns one today.

As an early birthday present, Griffin rammed Leyton's stroller (with him in it) with his tricycle knocking it over.  Leyton landed face down and was less than amused.  Mommy was even more upset.  There doesn't seem to be any permanent damage.  He has a bruise near his ear.

Ah, brotherly love.  Brings me back to my youth....