Jackson Turns Six: Lego Party!

We threw a Lego Birthday Party!!!  I had a great time putting all of this together.  Pinterest is a dangerous place...  I made a Lego Party board and just kept pinning!

 Luckily, others before me have done this, and I was able to borrow a Minifigure cake pan and Lego brick candy molds from friends :)  This little Lego dude did not turn out quite as I had imagined, BUT, I was pretty pleased, but Jackson LOVED it!

 I also made TONS of cupcakes topped with candy Legos!  We also used Lego guys to hold the candles :)

 Lego cupcake tower!

 Mini-figure cut-outs with "6's"

 "Happy Birthday" banner

 As friends arrived, there were blank mini-figures to decorate

 Lego brick banner

The favors were bowls of Legos to take home!  Each bowl also had activity cards included, so there were some ideas of what to build.

 Jackson's creation out of his favor bowl! 

 Juice boxes turned into Lego bricks

 Eating dinner!

 The BEST grill guy around :)

We were SO lucky to have tons of friends come to celebrate!  I got on a roll taking pictures of everyone...and then I got distracted :(  Sadly, not all of our friends are pictured here.

 Ashleigh and Kaitlyn

 Coach Jon and Alek

 Owen

 Rachel

 Lillian, Heidi and Griff

 Alex and Lucy

 Heidi, me and Katie

 Tatiana and Izzy photobombed by Olivia

 Ready for birthday singing!

 "Happy birthday, dear Jackson!"

 I LOVE this shot!

 Joe and Ben

 Spencer was awesome enough to lend us his enormous collection of Legos for playing at the party.  He also stayed late with a few other friends, and this little group of guys had a blast building, playing and enjoying their love of Legos :)

Jackson has such a fun time, and we all so enjoyed spending this special time with so many wonderful friends!

Touch a Truck

Jackson, Graham and I got to do a super fun activity that has been on my list for a while: Touch a Truck!  I have several friends who have posted pictures at similar events in years past, but I never knew about them happening!  This is totally in Jackson's wheelhouse (and Graham too!), and I knew he would love it!  Low and behold, I found one of these happening while Josh was on his March Madness trip!  It was out in Sterling, which gave us the perfect opportunity to meet up with Kelly and her girls, Kaitlyn and Ashleigh!

Everything went according to plan--I didn't get lost, we got there in plenty of time, and we got there early enough to get the "door prize" of Matchbox cars!  There was a small panic moment when I thought they were only going to take cash, but they had a credit card system set up, thankfully!  Who has cash anymore?

Our first stop?  A hug for the Chick-fil-a cow, of course!  This kid wouldn't go anywhere NEAR this sweet cow even a year ago!  Now, Graham has taken over that position...  Chick-fil-a had a fun wheel to spin and coupons to win.

Jackson trying out the driver's seat in the Martin's Bread truck!

The back of the HUGE truck was totally empty, and they encouraged the kids to climb up there and run around!  So fun!  

They were giving out sunglasses and sandwich bun shaped stress balls!  Who doesn't love a freebie?

We had never seen an ambulance bus!  

Graham wasn't too excited to sit way up high in any of the trucks, so we posed in the stroller.

Looking cool in his shades!

The Fab Four in front of a retro police car!

There was a Karate studio there giving trials--Kaitlyn and Jackson got "kicks" out of breaking a board by themselves!

Trying on the firefighter uniform before sitting in the fire truck!

And, there were fire hats :)

This truck had the longest ladder attached!

Rescue boat

Army tank

Graham DID climb into the daycare bus that was parked!

This truck had the keys in the ignition, and a visitor turned the smokestack on, so they closed the front seats to visitors, but there was this area to climb on the back.

Chick-fil-a was smart giving out those coupons, since there was a Chick-fil-a around the corner.  Easy decision to stop there for lunch and more playing!  We had such a good time with the Bronowicz girls!

We came home, and it was a beautiful day to play outside!  Levi (2 1/2), Graham (2 months shy of 2), and Jackson (5 1/2)--dirt and sticks unites them all!

My New Snack Tote!

Now that Graham is more of his own little person, he requires his own set of drinks and snacks while we are out and about.  I was finding myself leaving all sorts of paraphernalia in the car because I didn't have enough hands to carry all of the water bottles, cups, snack cups, baggies, etc in the house, and I rarely remembered to go BACK out to the car to get them.  I was in Trader Joe's while we were visiting my mom and dad, and I saw the reusable bags labeled as wine bags hanging by the register.  It occurred to me that those compartments would be PERFECT for water bottles and cups!  I added one to my order, and I have been using it ever since!

The above picture is actually showing it all filled up, and it is holding drinks for four kids and one adult and snack cups for all of the kids!  The Snack Traps stack wonderfully on top of one another!  This has been life-changing in terms of keeping track of all of our snacky stuff.  Plus, Jackson knows exactly where his drink and snack are and can help himself and put away.  

I showed Josh, and he (rightfully so) asked, "Pinterest?"  I said, "NO!  I came up with this myself!"  He said I should pin it.  So I did :)