Jake's birthday Part 2

We had a busy day on Wednesday! And I think that Jake had a good time. When he woke up we let him open his presents.

This is one of my favorite pictures. He just opened up his penguin costume and Mark is holding it up so he can have the full view. This picture says 1000 words! (I am glad that I stayed up late making it all last week it was worth it.

Here's Jake in his new costume, arms out

arms down

and sliding like a penguin

We went to Kangaroo Zoo during the day with his friend Bryce

Ryan climbing the highest slide at kangaroo zoo!

Jake with the real live Chuck E. Cheese!

Jake blowing out his candles. I love this picture as well since Mark is covering Ryan's mouth so Jake can actually blow the candles out himself.

Here is the cake that Mark put together. Decorating cakes with Mark is my favorite thing. I love Birthdays!

Happy Birthday Jake

I can't believe Jake has gone from this to this!

Happy Birhtday Jake.

(ps there will be another post with more pictures sometime in the not too far future)

I love Free

The children's museum in Salt Lake had a free day on St. Patrick's and so we went. To say it was SO crowded would be an understatement! It was pretty packed and I really couldn't have done it without Emily and Michele. They were huge helpers! Here are just a few pictures I got. Ryan in the Dog house and Emily with the pup.

Michele and Jake at the magnet wall.

Lunch time.

Jake's favorite place. He was here over an hour. He kept telling me that he had to work.

Ryan in the farm area with some chickens. Guess he has the same interest as his dad :)

The first hour we were there it was a total mad house. Jake brushed up against another little girl which was impossible not to do. (there were so many people there it seemed you were always bumping someone) Anyway she totally start crying. Emily was with Jake and asked the little girl's mom if she was ok (thinking it was a little odd that she was so hurt) the mom replied, "she has a broken collar bone." FYI somethings are not worth free. IF you child has a broken collar bone don't take them some place so crowded that they are going to get bumped every 5 seconds.

As it was so crazy we kept hearing other mom's say "this is so bad lets just go home." That is was gave us the motivation to stick it out. And with in an hour it was much better. Thanks again to Michele and Emily for all your help. If you weren't there I am sure I would have ended up with someone else's kids or none at all.

For Jake

I had a lovely trip to Arizona. I forgot how easy one kid can be. It was SO relaxing. As soon as we left the airport we went over to Kellie's apartment. It was so fun to see her and of course her new baby Gunnar. He is darling. Here he is not even a week old yet.

Here is a picture of Star. She is one solid girl. :) I couldn't believe how heavy she is compared to Ryan.

Here is Kellie with Gunnar. She was such a good sport to let me take her picture this soon after a c-section! Thanks Kel.

We had a little girl time (giving Kellie some rest) so Star and I did airplane rides and wrestling a little (I am used to being with all boys) Then it dawned on me that we should paint our nails. Star loved this. It was so fun to do with her too.

I don't feel like I got too many smiles out of Star. She is one of the most somber little kids I have ever seen. I am grateful that I got a few on camera.

As soon as I got in the van in Salt Lake Jake asked me if I got any pictures of Gunnar and what he looked like. He was sad he couldn't come but requested that I got pictures of Gunnar, Star, and Kellie. Sorry Erik, Grandma and Grandpa he didn't want current photos of you. So here they are Jake. I hope you enjoy.