Jack's Birthday!

Jackson turned 5 on Friday. He was so excited for his birthday and loved every minute of it.

Last picture as a 4 year old.

Jackson's first surprise was a note we left him to find in the morning when he got up. It told him that he could play the Wii until breakfast. He was so excited to be able to do that. He was also happy to get to wear his birthday crown he got at preschool.

Jordan was happy to play the Leapster.

After breakfast we went to Chuck E. Cheese. Jack loves that place. It was nice to go when there weren't very many people there.

Isn't he so cute? He was so excited to be able to wear summer clothes :)

There's a dancing place that has a camera in front of it so you can watch yourself when dancing. The boys have never done it before so I showed it to them when we were there and they loved it. They were pretty funny to watch. I videoed them during some of it.

After Chuck E. Cheese we came home and spent the afternoon at home.

Jordan spent most of the time cleaning up the huge mess he made that morning. I was upstairs getting reading while the kids were finished up breakfast when Jack came and told me Jordan did something very bad. He said he dumped out 2 cereal boxes onto Mackenzie's tray and she started pushing them onto the ground. It was a huge mess and I wasn't very happy. So I made him pick up all the cereal from the ground. If he would have worked without stopping so much he could have done it quickly. But like most things he does, he dragged the process out so it took a really long time.

Jack played the Wii again.

Then we decorated the cupcakes. It was fun having the boys help with that this year instead if me just doing it.

Jordan with one of the cupcakes he decorated.

Both the boys.

Jack moved all the presents off the table onto the floor. He likes traditions. We always have the presents on the floor in front of the fireplace, so that's where he wanted them, not on the table. He also said he wanted to open presents before eating cake because that's what we always do :)

Jack wanted a rocketship cake.

We had extra batter so we made a J cake too.

We went with my parents and the Crabtrees to McDonald's for dinner, then to glow golf, then back to our house for presents and cake.

Jack was happy to get a Happy Meal.

Jack glow golfing.

Jackson before opening his presents. He was so funny while opening his presents. He was really excited about all them and kept saying really funny things.

He was pretty excited to get Mariocart for the DS, but I think he thought he was getting a DS so he was a little disappointed that he was just going to be playing it on Doug's.

Reading the card from Jordan.

So excited for some bikes from grandma and grandpa.

The only thing he actually said he wanted was this Batman Trio Block set. When he opened it he was so surprised and said excitedly something like: "You got me what I just wanted?"

Cute Kenzie

He was really excited for this magic wand.

After some persuasion he started doing some magic tricks and was really excited when they were actually working. He made everyone make a funny face. It was pretty funny. After everyone made a funny face he magically made it cake time.

Then he said a spell to make the candles light up.

Everyone singing to him.

One of candles wouldn't blow out. So he decided to try using some magic.

But by the time he said he was going to do the spell and try to blow it out again one of his cousins blew it out. So he wanted us to relight it so he could try again. We did and he did his spell and blew it out.

Here I think he's saying "Actually, I'm all done."

The kids at the party.

Ashlee and Konrad with my mom in the background.

Jackson wanted to say a spell when I took a picture of my parents. We didn't know what he was going to say until he actually said it. He had them smile really good. Ashlee told him to have them kiss for the picture and he ran away and said nooooo! :)

The last activity of the night was trying on some of his clothes. He was very excited to get some summer clothes. I love my 5 year old!