Jaron's 4th Birthday!

This sweet boy turned FOUR!!!! Can you believe it? I am so proud of him and how sweet and precious he is. We had planned his birthday party at the park on May 20th, but rain was looming the entire day. At the last minute, we switched the venue to the Frontiers of Flight Museum, and as soon as we did, the rain poured down outside! The party turned out GREAT!

As you can see, it was a Toy Story theme birthday party. It sort of fit with the Museum...air, flight, space, Buzz Lightyear....you get it. I decorated the tables with some of our Toy Story stuffed "guys," plus some photos of Jaron and Elijah dressed up as Woody and Buzz for Halloween, and some pictures of us with the Toy Story characters at Disneyworld. Turned out cute!

Here is Jaron with my Mom. Of course she made 2 amazing cakes, again!!

There were even alien cupcakes!!

We had the kids decorate their own party favor bags with markers and stickers. They got to fill the bags with candy from the pinata later during the party.

Here is the pinata!

Jaron with big brother Jordan.

I thought the kids looked so cute in these alien hats!

Here are some of the kids decorating their bags.

Jaron's buddies in the little movie theater they have at the museum.

Jaron with his friend Lucas

Cary and I with my Mom, my Aunt Joa and Uncle John

Here we are with my Dad (Grandaddy).

Elijah with his cousin and buddy, Hudson (my cousin's baby).

Elijah and Grammy talking about "Buzz."

Here is Hudson in the bounce house!

This is another really fun part of the museum...we got to use their bounce house! Elijah loved it!

The pinata was a little dicey, but it was super fun. Each kid got 3 hits at Buzz's space shuttle.

It was Jordan who, on the last turn, finally busted the thing open!

Candy! And excitement!

Elijah, Grandaddy, and Buzz...thanks to Dad for taking care of Elijah for a big part of the party!

Jaron blowing out his candles!

Mimi helped :)

The cake was awesome! Thanks Mom!

My cousins Jenna, Casey, Whitney and baby Hudson

Cary and I with Cary's parents, Dick and Sandra (aka Baw Paw and Grammy)!

To infinity! And beyond!!

On the way home, after the party. Incidentally, it was pouring down rain on the way home...took us at least half an hour....But Jaron fell asleep holding the Buzz Lightyear candle and his new toy Evil Emperor Zurg (which he calls the "evil embazor").

Elijah and Jordan

All 3 boys celebrating Jaron's 4th Birthday together! I love it! We came home and had tortellini, cake, and presents!

Jaron got a trumpet from Grandaddy and Gigi. He had specifically asked for this, so it was cute that he was ready to play it!

A Rex toy!

Jordan gave Jaron some cool Toy Story sunglasses and some army men!

Elijah gave Jaron some "Bob" books.

Here are some of Jaron's "guys" that he got from us. He got a set of good guys and a set of bad guys.

Elijah liked playing with them too!

For the next week, Jaron and Jordan spent most of their time playing with this Lego sticker book. It had stickers of everything from Batman to Harry Potter to Sponge Bob. He loved working on it with Jordan.

The next day (Saturday) was Jaron's actual birthday, and we went to Jordan's track meet. He did a great job at the high jump, the 50, the 100 and the relay!

Fortunately, Jaron's buddy Marshall was there, and they played all over those bleachers.

Jaron's favorite present was probably this cool Buzz laptop. Thanks Kim and Jim!

Here are a few pictures from the little party we had in Jaron's preschool class. Jaron and I had made some cakeballs the day before, so we brought them to share with his preschool buddies.

It was a GREAT birthday and a great year!! Jaron, I am so proud of you! You are growing up to be such a big boy and we all love you so very much!

Easter and Springtime

Here are our 3 boys getting ready for Easter...with Parker the bunny!

This is Elijah's sweet little friend Mimi. He loves her!

Sweet big boy and little boy

Hiding in Dadda's guitar case

Jaron and his friends at his preschool "Pajama Day."

It was also the day that Cary played some music for Elijah's "March Madness Breakfast" at his school.

Jaron's best buddy Ava came to visit!

Here are some pictures from Jaron's Preschool Olympics Day. Their class was (obviously) the Yellow Team!

Here is Jaron doing the egg relay. Look how intense he is!

And the water balloon toss!

All his preschool buddies!

Before Easter we went to a MOPS Easter Egg Hunt (MOPS is a group I'm in called Mothers Of Pre-Schoolers). Here are the boys!

Since the egg hunt was for preschoolers, Jordan was Jaron's "helper."

Elijah enjoyed picking flowers!

Then he decided to start hunting eggs!

Daddy helped. :)

Cary and I got to go to NYC to visit Kim and Jim! Jim starred in "Million Dollar Quartet." It was SO great! Thank you Jim and Kim for a super fun weekend!

Jaron's preschool class had an Easter party. I made these cute little "Easter basket" cupcakes. Jaron helped me and I thought they turned out so cute!

Here they are listening to their sweet teacher tell them the story of the Resurrection. It was fun this year to really try to find ways to teach even our little boys about the reason we celebrate Easter!

Then, of course, they dipped Easter eggs!

We spent Easter evening at Mimi's house! Here the little boys are looking after "their garden" in Mimi's backyard. Jaron, especially, is very proud of his gardening efforts back there. He loves to come each week to see what has grown up!

Here's Elijah playing peekaboo with Tanner!

All 3 boys got cute little Easter baskets!

Here is Elijah with his best buddy and cousin, Hudson. Next year both of them will be old enough to really hunt Easter eggs!

Of course, Jordan found most of the eggs!

Jaron's class did the sweetest thing- A Mother's Day Tea Party. It was adorable. The kids had the room set up with a place setting for each mommy. We had bonnets for our heads, flowers in flower pots, pictures made by our kids, a plate made for each of us by our child, and each child brought us a plate of fruit and cookies with Iced Tea. They were so proud of themselves for doing something nice for mommy! Thank you, Jaron, for being so sweet!

Then the kids sang a song for us, and they had a card with their response to the question, "What does your Mommy do?" Jaron's said, "She kisses me!"

Then they made bead bracelets for us!

The teachers often post the kids' responses to questions they ask them during class. Here are a few of the ones they did that week. So cute!

Here are Jaron and his friend Jett on "Cowboy Day" at school.

And here are Jaron and Alex!

And here is Elijah's sweet little class! Elijah wanted to wear a hat on Cowboy day too!

I know...there was a lot going on at the Preschool this month! Here are some pictures from Splash Day...the kids played in the water and on a slip-n-slide.

Jaron and his sweet friend Marshall

The whole class! I will really miss this sweet First Year of Preschool. The teachers, the children, the activities...everything was absolutely adorable.

Here's a sweet picture of Elijah with Baw Paw, Cary's Dad.

And my sweet Jaron with a BIG helmet on. Stay tuned....I'll be posting pictures of his 4th Birthday Party very soon!