Alden's Party

So we finally have the sickness out of our house.  Alden and Patrick came down with coughs, runny noses, and fevers for a few days and we didn't get much done around here.  Patrick is better and Alden only has a lingering runny nose.  I hate when anyone is sick, but especially Alden because he can't communicate very well with me, and it wears me out because he wants to be held constantly.  My arms are getting stronger each day and I carry him around.  Now that he's feeling better, we are still struggling to get him to walk everywhere again.  He got so use to me carrying him, that he cries and asks to be held a lot more.  I have to take his hand and walk with him and tell him I'll come, but it's still a battle everyday.

The big news this past week in our house is that we bought our tickets to Germany.  We are headed to Munich the end of April/ first part of May.  We will be gone for about twelve days and are so excited!!  We have some good friends move out there this past Fall and are taking the chance to go see them and celebrate Patrick's graduation.  To convince ourselves that we could make the trip we said it was to celebrate my graduation as well, even though that was a few years ago.  Also, we said that Patrick had to have a job lined up already.  And all these things fell into place, so we purchased our tickets last week.  Alden and I are in the process of getting our passports, so that's the only hold up.  I have to get my name changed and Alden needs one.  I've never been out of the country so I'm excited.  It's taken me 24 years to go and Alden will be a year and a half :)  Oh well.  We're excited and can't wait.

I'm finally getting around to posting pictures of Alden's birthday party.  Thanks to everyone who came we had a good time and Alden had a lot of fun.  He loves his new toys still and he just loves when we have visitors over to our house.  There wasn't really a theme or anything, but we did do green and yellow and had a dinosaur on the cake.  (Hopefully you can tell it was a dinosaur, it was my first attempt).  He favorite book as of that week was about dinosaurs, so we read it several times a day.  I thought we'd go with it.  Enjoy!  P.s. there are a ton of pictures.  Mostly for my Mom since she wasn't able to be here for the party.