Four's Company: BIG BIRTHDAY BASH

Here are the enormous amount of pictures from Jackson's birthday. Hope you are ready.

I can't figure out how to get this picture in the right order but this is Jackson making sure Tiger can see the story time at the hotel (once you get to this part you'll understand)

Before the weekend started we had to finish playing with the moving boxes...
Boxes make great garages....

And places to play

This is the start of the birthday weekend as we called it (nice to have a birthday on Labor Day and why not celebrate the entire weekend??) This is Jackson having his FIRST donut. He loved it!

And who doesn't love arcades?

A trip to Thomas the Train world. Jackson hated this train ride---not sure why

And playing with some trains (even though we have them at home--guess they are more fun somewhere else)

Next we tried glow in the dark putt putt and he really liked it

Mike's trying to help him get his swing right

And what birthday weekend would be complete without a trip to your favorite restaurant? The rainforest cafe! Where all the jungle animals come alive!

Jackson watching the gorilla move and yell

After lunch we checked into the Great Wolf Lodge hotel. They have a FABULOUS indoor water park right inside. Jackson loved the water!!

And squirting other kids was fun too.....

Good times had by all!

Another first was stopping off at the hotel ice cream shop for Jackson's FIRST ice cream cone (shared with mama of course)

Tiger had to have some too but with a spoon---his tongue wasn't long enough

Mike and Jackson waiting for the Clock Tower story time to start. In the hotel all these animals come alive and sing and give a bedtime story to the kids. It was really cute.

The first picture in this blog is suppose to go here. Somehow it got moved and I can't get it back. Anyways Jackson made sure Tiger could see the story too.

Bath time at the hotel---fun times

This is the next day. We are home and as we were trying to pack up our entertainment center Jackson kept opening the movie cases. He fell asleep reading the inside cover to Monsters.

THE BIG #2 BIRTHDAY BASH!!!!! The presents were a little out of control we'd have to say. (oh and if you can't guess---his "theme" was diggers!)

Opening presents and he had to play with each one first of course.

Tiger tried out the new sleeping bag

Reading some new books

He was a little overwhelmed at first but then he got excited about opening MORE!!

There's nothing like getting a cement mixer!!

Okay, so last year's cake was quite an accomplishment. I think it took 4 people about 15 hours to make this barn cake.

This year's cake wasn't quite such an event. I am really proud of it though. But this one only took 1 person 3 hours to make. Not too bad! I think I'm getting better at this cake making business. Jackson even recognized what it was!

Speaking of progress. Last year Jackson wouldn't even touch his cake (even after we told him it took 15 hours to make!) but this year he participated by blowing out his candles and even diving right in.