Pre-Birthday Celebration Weekend

Boston and Preston's birthday is tomorrow, but we celebrated a little early. Grandma and Grandpa Pace, and Uncle Marcus and Aunt Maria (Uncle Mira to Preston) came to help us celebrate. The boys love all things train. They have all sorts of Thomas the Train stuff. Everytime we go to my mom and dad's house you can hear the train going through town and each time it toots its horn we have to go out and watch it go by. Everywhere we go they are watching out for trains. So we decided for their birthday to take them out to Boulder City and ride the train down there. Here are some pictures of the day.


We started out the ride in this outdoor car. Preston was a little bit nervous and would not go stand by the edge to look out. He was happy just sitting on grandma's lap. Here is all of us, except Gary who is taking the picture, waiting for the ride to start.

Me, Gary, Preston and Boston

Grandma, Grandpa, Preston and Boston

This is an old train in the train museum.

On the second half of the trip we decided to go sit in one of the indoor cars. Here is all of us enjoying the ride. After we got into the indoor car Preston was a lot more relaxed and was standing up looking out the window and dancing around to the old music they were playing.

The train ride wasn't all that spectacular. There wasn't a whole lot to see but the important thing is the boys had fun. As soon as we got done they kept saying they wanted to go again. And everyday they tell how fun it was to ride the train and that they still want to do it again.
Later that night we opened presents and had birthday cake. Here is Boston and Preston with some of their loot. They are so spoiled I hate to say it but they still have more to open tomorrow on their birthday.

I for some reason didn't take any pictures of them while they were opening their gifts but they got some really nice things. Thanks to Grandma and Grandpa for the books, BYU sweatshirts, the games Candyland and Don't Spill the Beans. Thanks to Great Grandma Mac for the monster trucks (which saddly are already broken but still usable, it doesn't take them long to destroy things.) Thanks to Aunt Erin, Uncle Jon, Rylee and Taylor for the Cars bowling pins. Gary and I got them a Cars and Little Einsteins laptop computers.

Here is a picture of their cake. It is a CARS cake and Preston was a little disappointed as first. We went to Sam's Club to get the cake. He really wanted a Thomas the Train cake but they were all out of the things for it. So we settled for this one. Everytime someone asked Preston about the cake he would get all sad and tell them "Thomas cake is lost". This one was cute and yummy. I was not about to attempt a cake this year. I am not very good at making just the cake part let alone making it cute so we went for the store bought one and sorry to say that is how it will be every year from now on.

Here is Boston enjoying his cupcake.


And here is Preston his first cupcake. He let me take a picture and then put it down because there were too many toys to play with so it got eaten by someone else.

And here he is after coming back for a new cupcake and after he enjoyed the whole thing.

And here is a cute picture of them playing on their new computers. Don't they look like they know what they are doing?

Thanks everyone who helped make Boston and Preston's birthday a fun one. It was fun to have you guys here. I will post more pictures tomorrow I'm sure as the celebration continues.