Super Sweet Friends!

The day before Davis's actual birthday our good friends Amy and Cheryl drove 3 hours with their kiddos to come celebrate Davis's birthday. When I found out they were doing this I went ahead and planned his birthday party for this day. Our local sweet friends Laura Leigh and her boys Josiah and Micah came over as well and we had a great time celebrating Davis's 3 year old birthday. I don't know if it meant more to me or to Davis! Davis loves the movie Cars and everything about racing right now, so we went with that theme. Because the kids had been cooped up in the car we played "Tractor Tipping" first. I wore a Mater party hat and told the kids to run around like tractors and when they hear the whistle they had to fall down like in the movie when Mater blows his horn at the tractors. They really enjoyed this simple game, so we played a few rounds and then headed inside for a few more activities.

I had found some little plaster cars at Hobby Lobby and let the kids each paint one and they were then able to take it home with them. The kids seemed to enjoy this and since it was washable paint it was all good.

Luke painting his car

Claire and Maddie

Evan working on his car.

Daddy even came home for some of the party. Here he is holding Micah while Laura Leigh is helping Josiah with something. Kallie loves Josiah and here she is trying to climb up Matt so that she can get to him. Between activities and lunch the kids just enjoyed playing together. Notice Davis's costume in the background :)

The only picture I have of Davis's cake - somehow mine got deleted, so very thankful that Amy took this pic with her camera.

You can't tell, but there is a Lightning McQueen car and Mater tow truck on the cake. I let Lowes Food do the work - I know my limitations :)

Davis opening his gifts with help from his friends. Everyone was very generous and he racked up on cars and trucks and accessories and a Thomas the train movie. He plays with them all! Thank you sweet friends and mommies!

Another activity where the kids dipped different cars into paint and then drove them onto paper to make tracks.

Only picture I have of our friend Josiah - and it is the back of his head. He and Davis are only 20 some days apart, so we are looking forward to getting the boys together for some play dates here in Hickory as they just recently moved here (July) as well. We were in Sunday School with Laura Leigh and Jonathan years back at Providence and he took a job here in Hickory - so neat how the Lord works.

After cake and ice cream Laura Leigh and the boys went home for naps and we attempted to put Evan, Luke, Davis and Kallie down for naps upstairs and let Maddie and Claire play downstairs while the mommies chatted and enjoyed catching up. Davis fell asleep after a while and Kallie took a nap, but I don't think Evan and Luke ever really fell asleep. We still had a great time catching up while they layed upstairs.
Here are some pictures Amy or Cheryl snapped of the kids all together.

Buddies and Elmo :)

Kallie looks like one of the big kids in this picture.

We headed to Chickfila for dinner later and this is a picture of the girls. After dinner they headed back to Raleigh. We had such a great time and Davis wore a huge grin all day! Thank you so much for making the trip!!