September 2011

Jarett really wanted to have a water balloon birthday party, so I went to work and filled 400 water balloons. The kids had a ton of fun, and next year, Jarett wants to have 600 water balloons at his birthday! Here are his friends lined up listening to instructions. We played 3-4 games and then had a giant fight before we ate and did the pinata. I know Jarett and his family had lots of fun at his party this year. I can't believe he is 5 years old!!! We celebrated his birthday 1 1/2 weeks before his real birthday.

Grandad made Case a special balloon.

Ready, aim, fire!

Getting ready for another game.

We played a game where you had to run the balloon across the yard, put it down and sit on it to make it break--this was a lot of fun!

We played, "try to throw the water balloon on dad's or grandad's face." This was fun, but none of the kids succeeded in getting one to break!

Here is the platter of cake pops I made--Jarett has wanted cake pops for his birthday, since Macy had her birthday last year! I figured he would change his mind, but he didn't!

A mouthful of "Yum!"

Case and our neighbor, "Parker" like the cake pops. Case found someone else's pop and finished, so he got a little extra.

Trying to get the pinata to break--Jarett really wanted one at his birthday party.

Jarett decided to wear his pinata.

I made homemade cinnamon rolls, and Jarett got to celebrate turning 5 for breakfast! Isn't my son precious! He is so much fun, and has really amazed me on how good he is at figuring things out for himself.

Here are the kids opening their combined present.

Here the kids are with their big present from mom and dad--fish. They picked out the cave and the fish, and we wrapped the tank and everything else. They named their fish, "Mickey" and "Rosy." Rosy is the red one and was Macy's fish, and Mickey had a Mickey mouse face on his tail. Unfortunately we killed the fish, when we tried to clean the tank, so they were our pets for 1 month, and now are buried in the back yard. We plan to get 2 new fish on Sunday, since Jeremy and I are the ones who goofed. The kids are okay about it now, but we had a lot of tears this past Sunday, when we watched them die--so tragic.

I love that boy's genuine smile! All the kids got to open presents when Nana and Grandpa visited.

Jarett liked his remote control car.

Macy got a Rapunzel outfit and wig for her birthday--you will see her in the outfit again for Halloween.

While we were in NYC, the kids went to POPs with the Grandparents, and some nice people let Case sit on their See-See-dah. He now calls it a, "motorcycle," though.