Spencer’s Birthday Party/Weekend at Nana’s

Yes, more birthday celebrating for Spencer. The weekend after our day at Hershey we went down to my parent’s house to have a little birthday party for Spencer.

It’s always fun at Nana’s house! I worked on a furniture refinishing project (more on that later), we played with toys, and I sorted TONS and TONS of Legos. Nathan has really gotten into Legos since his birthday and my mom has kept lots of them from when my brother and I were kids. We found sooooo many Hogwarts legos! Nathan insisted I try to make the Hogwarts Express, which then caused me to start sorting all the legos by color so that I could find the pieces that I needed. It took forever, but was so satisfying when I was done ;) There was swimming outside and riding trikes, making pina coladas and getting ready for Spencer’s party!

We did a racecar themed party this year. It was really fun to put together, but the bummer was that none of our invited guests were able to come! It was a combination of getting the info out too late and the regular summer busy-ness that it just didn’t work out for anyone that day. But we had a good time together as a family and we ate like kings from all the food we’d prepared :)

I made a cake for the occasion – I’ve been having so much fun getting back into making cakes again :)

Spencer was soooo excited for his cake! I made a chocolate cake with peanut butter mousse and he loved it!

I think he liked it ;)

We had the kiddie pool and the water table out and Spencer got to open the last few presents we’d saved for the party.

I think he had a great time! And I had so much fun celebrating my crazy little man!

Spencer’s Birthday and Hershey Chocolate World

So we made plans to go to Hershey’s Chocolate World with my mom, sister, my grandparents and a couple of cousins earlier this month. It just so happened that we went on the day of Spencer’s birthday. Everyone came up the day before, so we had Spencer open his presents that day since everyone was there to celebrate.

Big brother was more than happy to help with the present opening ;)

He’s screaming “Mack!!!” in this picture, he got a Cars 3 duplo set that came with Mack the Truck :)

Along with some Little People sets and that really awesome stuffed Lightning McQueen, I’d say he got a pretty good haul this year ;)

The next day we drove up to Hershey, PA to go to Hershey’s Chocolate world. It’s about 2 hours away so we left first thing in the morning for our first scheduled activity: Custom Chocolate Bar Making!

Spencer did NOT want to wear the required hairnet ;)

Watching our candy bars get covered chocolate!

We walked around to see all the fun chocolate/candy theme displays and gift shop.

We also watched the 4D film – which was a little weird,but the kids enjoyed it…mostly. Nathan got a little scared at the beginning, but was okay for the rest of it.

We stopped for lunch at the Soda Shop diner before the rest of our activities for the day.

After lunch was our trolley ride. The boys really liked the ride, and the free chocolate they kept giving out ;)

Our last event was the chocolate tasting experience. Spencer was pretty much done by that point. He hadn’t gotten a nap and was having a hard time by the end of the day, but we made it through the last of the day.

Once we finished the chocolate tasting, we made the drive back home. We had such a great time at Hershey!