mister is 14!

let's party!!! happy birthday, mitty!!! we love YOU, old man!

14…that's 98 in people years

fresh salmon for dinner

a cool new toy

helping the birthday boy blow out his candles

vanilla cupcake for dessert.

happy birthday, thad!

another year older, another year wiser…another year closer to forty! we love you, thad!!!!

jackson is six!!!

how is it possible our baby boy is six years old?! time sure does fly when you're having as much fun as we do. we celebrated the big 6 with traditional blueberry muffins for breakfast, presents, a trip to chuck e cheese, more presents, dinner with nana, captain, grammie AND grampie and to top it all off…blue cake. happy birthday, sweet jackie!!! we LOVE you!

tearing in 

1st trip to chuck e cheese

thad demonstrating the finer points of skee ball

we got tickets. LOTS of tickets

proud dad

counting up our winnings

this took awhile…we had over 700 tickets!

another birthday highlight, finally being old enough to hit the hot tub at villa sport!!!

the cake!!! 

pump it up party

jackson's 6th birthday party was at pump it up. all 16 kids had a super fun time sliding, bouncing and feasting on cake

6!!!!!

the whole gang...

so much fun

jackie & his favorite teacher, miss kiersten

checking out the cake

cake!

cake time

sonic goodie boxes for all the party guests

kaiya & greycin

awesome pump it up logo carpet

back at home...soooo many gifts!!!!

spectating the gift opening

jackson turns 5!

hooray! i'm five!

traditional birthday blue blues

yummy!

funny cards

an office set from auntie sara, uncle rick & cousin kali!

cool legos!

more gifts!

a snowball maker from nana!

cutest five year old in the whole world

more birthday!

more gifts! for me?!!

a cool sleeping bag from grammie & grampie!

marnie's famous chocolate cake, made with love by nana
(jackie's request- chocolate cake, green frosting, rainbow sprinkles & spongebob on top...
we honored all requests except the green frosting part)

the spinning, singing, fire spurting flower candle was a little scary

nana's special cake's a hit!

high-fives all around.

licking the last of the cake from his birthday plate.
happy #5, jackie!!!!