Happy 31 Jeffery

Here's my one and only picture of Jef'f's actual birthday. He worked all day, so I'm so glad that we celebrated so much over the weekend. Tyler reminded me that we needed to get poppers for daddy's big day.

I just love this guy:

Yellow pants (from fertilizing) and all!

Jeff's Birthday Celebrations

We started Jeff's Birthday Bash on Friday with a Surprise BBQ! My parents ordered it for him so his friend helped me pick it up and I surprised him by telling him there was a snake in the driveway. I'm a horrible liar, but Tyler kept looking around for the snake! Finally, Jeff walked out and smiled!

I took a picture and Jeff said Zoom in! Of course, here's our dinner Rib-Eye stakes, up close and personal!

This is the cake I made him! I asked Tyler if we should make Daddy a soccer ball or a baseball hat and he said, "or a spider!" So, spider it is...

With pudding guts in the middle! It was mighty tasty! I love my Betty Crocker bake'n'fill pans!

Zach's Birthday Fun!!

So, I need to catch up!!

In the few days after diarrhea and before laryngitis :) where everyone was feeling good, and we were out and about. Zach, Tyler's best buddy turned 3. Their b-days are only a few days apart, so we usually do something special with them together.

They had so much fun on the carousal at Stone Briar Mall!

A cute shot of Becca and Zach!

Even Jackson joined in on the fun!

What an exciting day!!

Tyler is 3!!

All week, we've been working on the "how old are you?" conversation. Tyler would say, "I almost not 2, I almost 3!" and hold up 3 fingers.

On Thursday, preschool was at our house, so we had a little birthday party at the end!

The kids loved the blowers, and of course the cupcakes!

I died the batter and the frosting green, because GNEEN is Tyler's favorite. (Yes, gNeen)

On Friday night, we did cake and ice cream and had a few friends over for a last minute party.

Because Jackson's b-day is on New Year's Eve, we did poppers on his birthday. I guess Tyler thinks every party gets poppers, because he saw them at the store and said, "get this, my birthday" So, we went outside and popped poppers and instead of yelling Happy New Years, we yelled Happy Birthday! I guess this will be a family tradition of ours! :)

I loved watching Tyler's face as we sang to him his favorite song. He followed along with the words, "to YOU" and was just delighted when we sang, "to TYLER"

Don't you love his frog/monster/alligator "3" shirt?!

I had envisioned a beautiful dirt cake with a road for the cars and some grass... this is how it turned out... (I'm obviously no cake decorator!)

While no one was looking, Tyler decided to take a taste :)

Our college friend Neil just moved here to work with Jeff and he set up a projector for us to watch CARS on the big screen!!

We had a great day! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TYLER BOY!

Jackson's 1st Birthday!

Jackson's #1 Birthday Party:

It's wonderful having Jackson's birthday on New Year's Eve because we are usually with family for the holidays. We had such a fun big family party and it was really special to be able to celebrate with my family!

We did a carnival theme with circus games and prizes!

Somehow Lily won pin the nose on the clown, and got it exactly in the right spot! I asked her if she could see with the blindfold on and she told me this: "No, I'm just very smart and I'm really really good at this game"

The boys' favorite game was 'play with balloons' cheapest game ever!

Tyler helped him blow out his candle (twice)

but he didn't need any help eating it.

All of a sudden I look back and Tyler has eaten 5 cupcakes!! He would lick the frosting off and tell someone "want 'nother one". His aunts and grandmas just kept handing him more (he has lots of friends.)