Tanner's Birthday!

Just wanted to put up some photos and memories from Tanner's birthday celebration. We had a little family gathering on Saturday the 11th. The theme was yellow because it's Tanner's favorite color! It was an absolutely gorgeous day! Can you believe it was almost 80 degrees? The festivities began with a taco dinner (Tanner's current favorite!) and then we went outside and enjoyed a couple of exciting games of croquet - a Root family favorite! Then we helped Tanner open up his fun presents! Last - we put him in his chair and gave him his birthday cupcake with a number '2' candle. He promptly said 'OH - it's too, very, very HOT!!' about the lit candle. His 'cake' this year was a bunch of cupcakes put together to say 'Y is for yellow'! After he blew out his candle, he dug in but quickly realized that his hand was sticky from frosting and didn't like that at all! His blue shirt was soon coated with yellow buttercream! :) We had such a good time! And Tanner did, too!

Here are some photos from our day!


Then...on his birthday we had another good day! We started having Tanner's favorite, blueberries, with our breakfast! Then we spent some time at the park!! For dinner we went to Applebees and then home to open more presents - we had saved the gifts we bought Tanner for his actual birthday. By this point, he had present opening pretty much down and didn't really need any help! It was so cute - each time he began opening one he would make a WOW face (see photo below). After that - we had cake!


We took a lot of photos during those two days - you can see more here.