A Birthday Carnival Extravaganza!!

Jack's second birthday was so much fun and we were so excited to celebrate with great family and sweet friends!! It was originally supposed to be at our new house, but that didn't work out. We moved the party to my parents' house next door and that made everything much less stressful for everyone (well, except my parents maybe, but they're troopers - real "go with the flow" people. I don't know where I came from:).

We decided to have a carnival birthday and by "we" I mean me. When I told Jack that his cake was going to have clowns on it, he said "Not big trucks?" So, I'm sure if he had had a vote, we would have had a semi in the yard, but he didn't get one this year, so the carnival was ON! For some reason I had the party at 11:00 which is exactly the time Jack naps every day at daycare (I won't mention that Alabama's A-Day game was televised at 2:00 that afternoon b/c it had nothing to do with the time of the party:). Needless to say, the first hour was pretty tough for my little man. All the other children seemed to enjoy the party very much, though!

Thanks to my wonderful hubby, we had this cute photo board. Don't Piper and Alden make the cutest lion tamers you've ever seen?! Most of the kids got their picture made like this, but I just can't post them all... there were a lot of kids there:) It actually was just the kids from church in Jack's Sunday School class and then some family and my prayer partner's kids, but that ended up being a lot of kids. That just made it more fun though!!

Can't have a carnival without some good cotton candy!

Those Easter chicks and ducks came in handy for a neat little petting zoo... We're still amazed they survived the day!

We had some Pick Up Ducks that didn't really float that well (ha) and the kids "prizes" were in these cute popcorn boxes for them to take home and enjoy!

Aunt Dee Dee painted Gabe's face and he played the clown for us.

Poor John Parker... he didn't even get to enjoy the party. We just put him right to work on the tractor when he got here!

Sweet Emery!

I wish I had this kind of carefree abandon. Caroline is really enjoying herself!! This pony was a big hit for a while, but then they finally decided to give these a try...

Thanks to Tammy Holt and her family for setting this up for us! The kids really enjoyed the pony carousel!

Han and Joel took a ride... Then we wouldn't let them get off b/c that's the only way we finally got Jack to ride. He saw that Han was riding and he wanted to ride right behind her!

Finally, a SMILE!!

He wasn't in the best mood, but he came around when it was time to open the gifts!!

He's a serious rider!! (I love this expression:)

Even though Jack wasn't at his best, the party was a success. We had lots of fun with all our friends. Thanks to everyone for helping us celebrate!! I hate I don't have a picture of all the kids and everyone else that was there. I'm hoping to get some more and I'll post them later. I can't believe I didn't take a group pic, but we were running on fumes by that time!

We had just moved all our stuff into the house a few days before.... and that's my next post!!