Gavin's birthday party (the longer version)

We had Gavin's birthday party yesterday after church. We invited a few of his little friends as well as a couple families for Greg and I to visit with! Greg barbequed and we had hamburgers, chips, and salad. For desert I made a tractor cake (although I forgot to take a picture before it was half-eaten - oops).

It wasn't summer-like warm, but it was sunny and when the wind died down for a moment, you could close your eyes and almost imagine that it was warm out. :) The kids played outside for most of the afternoon, and the adults spent some time visiting out on the deck.

Gavin of course got some great presents - cars, a toy fishing rod set, a little kite, a slip and slide for when it finally gets really warm, and a big boy bike from Mommy and Daddy. He's ridden it to church and back yesterday and then to soccer tonight - he gets pretty freaked out when he feels it wobble from side to side (it has training wheels but it still wobbles a bit before the training wheels kick in), so Greg has been walking beside him holding his shirt. His legs are not quite long enough for the pedals (we bought him the one that he's just on the bottom end of being tall enough for rather than the one he'd grow out of in a year) so it's kind of funny to watch him shift from side to reach the pedals. I think he'll get the hang of it quickly though.

We had a fun day with our almost four year-old! We're going to have another little party with just us and some family presents tomorrow night for his 'real' birthday.