Boy's 2nd Birthday Party...Finally

This weekend was just cleaning the house and getting ready for the boys party…AGAIN but didn’t do a whole lot.  Saturday night I had a game and Jared’s brother Brandon and family were coming up to stay with us for the night.  Huskers played in the BIG 10 Championship and lost BIG time on Jared’s birthday.  So the Craigheads’ and Lawrence came over for Chili and the game.  Jared’s birthday was spent all day with the boys and doing things around the house but the lost was a huge bummer for him.  His highlight was getting a new SmartTV and mounted from who…MEJ!  He was so excited for it and I was excited to give it to him.  This time of year Jared is almost a single daddy and does an awesome job!! I hate that it has to be like that but love my job and we can’t afford for me not to work.  In the spring and summer it works out great and is super laid back.  I know some days are tough on Jared especially when I am gone and he has a game too, lots of planning on both of our parts.  He does an awesome job!  I don’t know many husbands/dad’s that could handle it as good as Jared does.  He is so good to me in so many ways being a daddy is only one of many things he is so good at.  I love you more and more every day thanks for all you do for our family and me!  Happy Birthday Jared!

Sunday was the party; I had hired a petting zoo and party started at noon.  We had a burger/hot dog bar with veggies, fruit, cheesy potatoes and dessert.  Desserts were the hit of the party, besides the animals.  Desserts were the cake pops and cupcakes (and cookies-Jared’s favorite) that were zoo animals! Thanks to my sister in laws the weekend before we got them all done and they turned out sooo cute!  Took a long time but was well worth it and were delicious!  I was worried with them being in the fridge and freezer but everyone commented how good they were so glad to hear that!  The kids loved them!

After lunch and dessert we did gifts and the boys were once again spoiled like crazy and got way too much but they loved all their gifts.  They wanted to get every toy out to play with right away.  This year they were much more into opening the gift which was fun.  We were trying to hurry them along as all the kids were drying to see the animals.   After seeing a BIG gift from Brandon, Amy and the girls ( a kitchen) we were done with gifts and onto the animals.

cupcakes we made, elephant was awesome but took too long so only did one of them

Cake pops we made

Landon and Kris

Kris trying to get a picture and boys being silly

They really liked being sung too and wanted "more, more"

chairs from Grandma and grandpa Bodammer

They loved all their gifts

Kitchen from Brandon and Amy

Jax enjoyed feeding the goats

Jeremy and Tristan checking out the animals, notice Tristan hanging on tight 

daddy and Landon

Tristan feeding the goats

Hannah Riding the donkey

Ella riding the donkey

boys were not real excited to ride the donkey like other kids and adults but Landon almost wanted to

Gotta love their name tags

grandma and grandpa Bodammer

boys nap after their party, exhausted they ended up in the same bed

We could have not asked for a nicer day I think it was 61 or 61 degrees, so nice for Dec. 2.  The petting zoo was out of Holstein, IA and they come for as long as you want, they brought ice cream cones and food for the animals.  They kids got right into the fenced in area and pet the animals and fed them.  There were lama’s, miniature ponies, goats baby goats, baby calf, sheep, donkey.  After a little while they did donkey rides for young and old, even the moms and dad’s liked that J.  I think everyone had a great time.