This party was so much fun to put together and yes it was a fair amount of work, but it's work that I absolutely love doing. Seeing the look on his face when he saw the decorations and the cake was enough to make me smile ear to ear. We did a quick fun scavenger hunt game and then just let the kids go wild in Nana and Papa's back yard while the adults visited and ate.
We are so thankful for our awesome friends who helped us celebrate our Jordie boy. Our closest family friends were all there and Jordie couldn't have been happier to have his best buddies there with him. PLUS we had the added bonus of his Reimer cousins being there too which was just a total blast for everyone. It will definitely be a party for us all to remember!
Here are the many many photos that we took of the party!
Starting off with the sign that was supposed to be a banner but this was easier to do!
He was just the cutest Marshall ever on Halloween last year
The night before the party the Reimers arrived and I put them all to work helping out!
Doesn't every kid want to help decorate the goodie bags for their party?
Ready to go!
Teresa was awesome and made this Tic Tac Toe game poster so much better than I would have!
Of course the kids wanted to help with it too
You should have seen the look on my mom's face when she heard I wanted to cut the cheese, meat, sandwiches and watermelon into bone shapes! :)
I tried to do it but she told me to get the hell out of the kitchen and she proceeded to do it all
Even Jimmy got involved helping
Decorations
Jordie showing Papa all of the Paw Patrol pups in the decorations we put up.
The next morning this little guy was up super early and just raring to go to Nana and Papa's for his party!
Even more food preparing...and even more bone shaped food!
Jordie was given this cardboard castle from the Reimers for Christmas and that very day we decided we would set it up for his birthday party in May and let him and his friends go to town on it. It just so worked out that the Reimers happened to be in town because it was the long weekend!
These two were thrilled to set it up
Auntie Teresa rigged up the doors so the kids could pull them up and not let people in
I really like this picture of Jordie and his Auntie
He got to be the first to draw on it!
And a good one of him and his cousin
hahahahahaha...his eyes match his googly eye pajamas in these 2 pictures
All set up and ready to be played on
Of course James couldn't wait to play it...even if his brother had no idea how to actually play
He's dressed now and ready for his friends to arrive
Attempted some family photos before the party
He got into the cheezies almost immediately after they hit the tabe
Big hugs for Annie Ya who was luckily able to join us for the first hour of the party before she had to go to work for the day
More of the decorations and the awesome bone cake that my friend Kelly made for me!
My friend Kelly did an awesome job on this cake! All I did was bake the cakes and throw the toys
on it....she did the rest!
Happily showing Papa his cake
He wasn't big into drawing on the castle, but he did love pulling up the drawstring doors to keep people out (especially me!)
I LOVE this picture of these two!
Such big smiles
Now Maddie's here and she loved the castle too!
And Blake loved the yard castle too!
Time for the Paw Patrol scavenger hunt game!
The kids got a sheet with the pictures of the pups and they had to find the 6 bowls in the yard that had the copies of the badges and then they had to match them up. The game only lasted a few minutes but the kids all said they had fun!
Such a cute picture of Maddie!
Time to eat!
And of course I snuck in a little hug too
Maddie is such a friendly little one that she happily sat with kids she didn't know to eat her lunch
Ms Gracie with Kelly
I don't remember taking these next few pictures and I think Jim must have had the camera
at this point. He definitely has a soft spot in his heart for the little girls in our world.
Aaaaawwww....what a pretty little smile!
hahahahahaha....sorry boys! Uncle Jim was clearly in charge of the camera at this point!
Such beautiful little eyes
Only adorable babies are allowed on Diesel's dog bed
Time for the cake!
I love our smiles in this one
It was heavy!
Happy Jordie found his favorite Chase toy
Nana said no cake on the deck so they all had to sit down on the grass
Happy Kaleb
James was excited because Quynn agreed to eat the rest of his cake
And there she goes!
Adorable Shayne loving her cake
Another beautiful photo of Maddie
And Livie
After his cake he wanted a cupcake (and because the big kids got both he thought he should too!)
This is why I love doing theme parties...it's for these kinds of smiles!
Two of my favorite kids
The next two photos are probably two of my favorites!
Lukas finished off his cupcake in no time!
These two big kids didn't look to be having too much fun!
Sorry Dane-O...definitely not the best picture of you buddy!
Jordie playing with Baby Gracie
Time to hand out the goodie bags as kids were leaving
These 3 have been buddies since they were born and we try to get a picture of them at least once a year...I would say this one is definitely a keeper!
These two are just the absolute cutest couple in the world
Big hugs
Look at how tightly her arms are around his neck
And here's the money shot!
Such love
Checking out the goodies in his goodie bags!
Big hugs for Lukas and Quynn
Sharing his chocolate with Nana
Now big hugs for Shayne
Adorable smiles
Party is cleaned up and time to open his cards with his toonies in them
Super cool 3rd birthday Rubble card!
Funny enough the boys asked me to take a couple pictures of them out on the deck
This is absolutely my new favorite photo of my boys. I love that they are holding hands in it and that was totally on them...I didn't even notice it until that night when I uploaded the photos. This one will probably be blown up big for my wall very soon!
Action shots
It's 2 pm and it's time for snuddles from Papa, then home for a nap
We're back at N&P's house for dinner and back playing in the castle some more
I also love these four photos too!
And this adorable video of us too!
Hands down, my favorite kids show ever and I am so excited that I finally got to do a birthday party for it. I thought last year it would be for James but he loved TMNT instead and last year I knew it would be the last year I could do Bubble Guppies for Jordie so I went with that with every intention of saving PP for this year :)
This was the cut out logo that I used on the top of the cake!
Wow, if you got all the way through that post...good for you! I really do these posts more for me than for anyone else but if you enjoy seeing stuff like this too I'm happy you kept at it. I know that years down the road I will for sure look back through these posts and my biggest dream is that one day my boys (and maybe future daughter-in-laws) go back and look through them and smile knowing how much I tried to give them the best that I could.
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