Jackson is 3---party and birthday shots

Jackson is 3!! It's really hard for us to believe. He's grown up so much this past year. He's become a great big brother to Anna and is even potty trained. Go Jackson!!

We've had a really fun couple of days. Here is the start of the celebrations. Jackson helped me to bake his birthday cake. Here is the cake BEFORE I really got started on the decorating.

And here is the finished version. Good news is Jackson could recognize it was Lightening McQueen from the Cars movie.

Here's Jackson ready for cake

yippee he's 3!

Party splash fun

Fun in the pool

Fun in the slip-n-slide

And of course eating cake is a huge highlight of any party

We thought this was a funny look.....

Here's a cute sot of some of his friends

Aunt Barb and Uncle Jack came over after the party for lunch.

Tickles!

More tickles!

Happy Birthday Jackson. Jackson on his new bike

Jackson and Anna yesterday morning

Lucky for Jackson meet the teacher was yesterday and so we took cupcakes for his classmates. They all sang happy birthday to him and then sat at the table to eat. Too cute! (more on the school soon)

After school we met Mike for a birthday lunch

Anna couldn't hang---all the excitement wore her out

Mike and Jackson at lunch

Here's a shot of the requested birthday dinner. Corn salad, chicken poppy seed and black olives (and grapes too but those are all gone)

We had a few leftover cupcakes from the school party for the 3 of us to enjoy last night.

Anna helped Jackson blow out the candles

Jackson had 16 friends over on Saturday for his party. They are all such nice kids and all so willing to help in blowing out the candles too. It is hard to resist! We had to do two takes on the candle blowing but it all turned out okay :)