Guy's 27th Birthday & ICE!!!

Guy turned 27 last week (Dec. 10) so we had a little party for him to celebrate. Brayden took it very seriously and wanted him to have a lightning mcqueen party just like he did when he turned 3. Luckily I saved all those decoration so it worked out perfectly!

We made Guy cupcakes and Brayden put all his favorite cars on top of them

Blowing out the candles

YUM

Tyler was in heaven with his cupcake...I have a feeling he will love his 1st birthday!!

After cake, we drove out to the Gaylord Texan hotel for Guy's birthday present! At Christmas time they decorate the hotel with over 1.2 million lights and they have a huge ICE display with 2 million pounds of hand carved ice. Ya, its pretty crazy and we finally decided that we needed to see it! This is the ceiling of the middle of the hotel atrium!

Tyler was in awe of all the lights the whole time! He loved it!

They had a 50 foot rotating Christmas tree

in the center And this tree had a miniature train that ran through it. It was pretty cool

Brayden loved the trains and we had to literally pull him away from them

Ty watched them with no expression so I have no clue if he liked them or not. I figure since he wasn't crying, he must have liked them

The boys with the birthday daddy Crossing one of the many bridges inside Brayden was not thrilled about this picture but at least he's looking

Inside Santa's workshop...he even had a cookie conveyor belt!

And the biggest gingerbread house ever!!!

We finally made it over to the ICE display when it was our time to go and they gave us these super warm coats to wear since its 9 degrees in there. Brayden was cracking us up in his coat cause he could hardly move in it!!

Walking in...had to get a backside view

The theme this year was Dr. Suess How the Grinch Stole Christmas and it was all hand carved by 40 artisans from Harbin, China. It was pretty crazy!

One of the best parts was the room with the 20 foot ice slides. Here's BB at the top of the kids one lookin so cool in his coat. haha

This is one side of the ice slide room

BB going down the kids one...he was brave and went down the bigger one too!

This picture is kinda blurry but it was the best I could get of Guy going down while holding Tyler!

It was pretty fun!!! :)

Brayden going through the little mini door

This was one of my favorites! SO cute!

Mr. Grinch

Getting ready to go in the ice tunnel

Family shot

Guy found his birthday cake and I told him to lick it but he wouldn't

The last room was a full nativity carved out of ice. It was amazing

Tyler was SO ready to go at the end

It was such a fun way to celebrate our favorite guy's birthday!

St. Jude Marathon

Guy ran his second marathon on Saturday in Memphis. It was the St. Jude Marathon and all the proceeds went to the St. Jude children's cancer hospital there. It was such an amazing cause and Guy did AWESOME!!! He finished the race in 3 hours and 43 minutes! Thats like an 8:30 pace for each mile which is amazing!!I have no idea how he ran that fast but we are SO proud of him!!!

At the expo on friday we saw Hal Higdon, who has run over 100 marathons. We used his beginner training plan to run St. George in October!

Here's Guy before he left for the race! It was SOOO cold that morning in Memphis. I think the temp at the start was like 30 degrees and it only warmed up to 45 later in the day. Guy said he was fine once he was running but for those of us just standing around watching, it was cold!!
Here's the mass of people at starting line. A 10 year old St. Jude patient got to sing the national anthem before the race which was so cool and she did a great job :)

They got to finish in autozone park baseball stadium which was really cool

Autozone park

Guy right after he finished. I was sad I didn't catch him coming across the finish line because there were too many people in the way. But we saw him and we heard them announce his name!! I was shocked he was coming in under 4 hours!!!

Guy loved the course and it was nice because they had aid stations at every mile. They also got to run through the St. Jude campus and see all the St. Jude children outside cheering for them and giving them high fives. We talked a lot this weekend about how it would be to have a child with cancer and how grateful we were to have 2 healthy boys. St. Jude's is really an amazing organization. They never turn a child away because they can't pay for treatment so the hospital is mostly run on donations. It was really cool to contribute to that and know the money from the race was going to such a good cause!

Good Job Daddy!

After Guy showered and rested for a bit we went back to autozone park and got a picture of the finish line

This is the entrance to the park

Guy and BB

We took a drive after to Graceland to see Elvis Presleys house. We didn't want to pay for the tour so we just took a picture

View from the street

That night there was a Christmas parade in Memphis that we watched. All I can say is that it was an interesting parade but at least we got to see Santa so Brayden was happy.

We walked down Beale Street and had to get a picture by BB Kings for BB

Family pic on Beale Street

We had a great weekend and Guy was amazing!

We are SOOO proud of him! :)