Jaxton's #2 Birthday

Jaxton's birthday was on Saturday the 14th. It was a TON of fun! The weather held out JUST long enough for us to finish our party up. We had the party at an awesome park by our house and the kids would probably have loved the party if playing at that park was all we did the entire time...:)

 Jaxton's cousins all came, Max, Mairee, Ethan, Katelyn and Lincoln...Lincoln is only like 6wks old... He LOVED it. :)

 

  

 Grandpa Gause did the hot dog cookin' while Justin supervised. :)

 Here is more of the crew that came to wish Jax a happy one...

 My dad made that cool board that is propped up behind the kids; it's for "bean bag toss". But once the kids figured out they got bubbles for making it in the circles they all aborted bean bag toss and just did boring bubbles for like 20 minutes. Kids are CRAZY. :)

 I tried to get a picture of the "big kids" playing some fun games on the lawn (Arianne, Gabe, Steve, Jason and Justin)... you can't even see who they are. But they were there and they loved it...or so i told myself. :)

 Look at cute Tasha with the kiddies who are still obsessing over bubbles! Tash is having her baby on Friday!!
(ps. I'm "due" this saturday--5 days. I went to my appointment yesturday and the doctor "checked" me; he actually laughed. I said "What does that mean?" and he said "Well, if there was something to tell, I would tell!" and I was llike, "What does THAT mean?" and he said "This baby's is NOT comin' this week!" Did I really expect different? No. Not for one second. But for some reason it just didn't feel good.)

 Oh cute!! They found a use for the bean bag game board! :)

            Here is us, thanks for snappin the pict mom! :)

 And you will never realize how cute this "duck, duck, goose!" game was. It was SO fun to watch. One kid was "it" and did the "duck, duck, duck" thing and when they "goose!" someone, ALL the kids get up and run around the circle after each other giggling and laughing. Then they all sit down and start again.

There they go! SO cute!! 

I made Jax a Cars cake. It was huge and delicious.

The car was made using a frozen buttercream transfer method that is supper easy. The cake had 3 layers (chocolate, vanilla, chocolate) with pored evaporated milk+sweetened condensed milk over each layer and had strawberries and whipping cream inbetween the layers as well.

Jax LOVES strawberries and LOVED his cake. Made his mom feel good.

 Sadly it was too windy for us to light any candles, so they came off.
 Jax LOVED everyone singing to him.

Presents came next and everyone had fun helping Jax. He's not a super fast present opener, and it was getting windy and cold and my mom had to go to work. :) So the help was GOOD.

SO many FUN presents--what THOUGHTFUL family he has!! Jax loved EVERYTHING!  The squirt guns were a big hit for all.

We got Jax the Radio Flyer Slider Rider. It's got rollerblade wheels in the back that slide around when you turn or break. Really funny to watch. I think my nephew Ethan did a 360, unintentionally--it was a riot. Super cool. :) 

Jax got a Cars helmet from his Grandma Gause--which he couldn't keep on his head for more than 5 sec. but it came with this bell that we can mount on his bike--he LOVED that bell.

It Jax couldn't quite figure it out at the park, he's tried it once for like 2 minutes since then and got a little better. It will take a little practice but i can see him just speedin' around in that thing doing all sorts of slidin'. :)

It was so nice of our families to come play with us!! Thanks for helping us make it such a fun day for Jax!!