Jacob's 3rd Birthday Party!

Two days ago, on Jacob's actual birthday, we had his party at our house! We knew it would be a Cars themed party, because that's Jacob's favorite thing ever. But, we couldn't figure out exactly what we wanted to do. We're pretty low key and didn't want to do something at Chuck E Cheese or somewhere else just yet. Even though it was tempting because places take care of everything for you and you don't have to clean up! But, we stuck with having it at our house again and decided to rent a bounce house!!!

You never know what Texas weather in February will be like. We went ahead and reserved the bounce house a few weeks ago and were told if the weather was bad we could just have a credit to use it again another day. But, we were crossing and double crossing our fingers for nice weather since that's about all we've had this whole "winter". Of course a week before his party, it's snowing and sleeting in North Texas. Then the day before his party, it's pouring rain ALL DAY.

But, we must have been on somene's good list because it all cleared off by Jacob's party! It ended up being sunny and about 65 degrees by party and bounce house time! We were sooo thankful! :)

Here are some pictures of decorations first! Jimmy's sweet girlfriend, Amy, made Jacob's cake. We were all soooo impressed. Seriously, it looks professional. Thank you again Amy!!! :)

Party favors. Bags of M&Ms with Cars stickers and a note from Jacob.

Along with the M&Ms, I printed out a lot of Cars coloring sheets and passed out boxes of Cars crayons.

Jenny and I had made cars cupcakes with adorable cupcake liners!!

Then I made these Car toppers and put them on each cupcake with a lot of different car characters from the two movies.

To go along with the Cars theme, I also made another dessert with the cupcakes. These are 'stop light' treats'!! :) Rice krispie treats with chocolate icing and a few M&Ms. So cute and so yummy! :)

A sign I made for the door with the Cars logo, but, I changed it to 'Jacob is 3'! :)

We made our coffee table into a racetrack for the kids to play and race cars on. It turned out really cute! :)

We just ordered a ton of pizzas for lunch for everyone, had breadsticks and made queso for dip. Pretty easy! :)

We ended up with about 28 adults and 10 kids. It was nuts. But, so so so much fun! :)

And here's the infamous bounce house. Man, this thing was a total, raving, success!!! The kids loved and the adults loved it. We'll talk more about the adults later. :) It was HUGE! It was right in front of our house and so big inside. So glad Badi found this Cars one and it even had a basketball hoop inside. It was perfect!! :)

I so badly wanted a group picture of the kids. Do you know how hard it was to pull out everyone from this bounce house for a picture?!?! Ha. But, thankfully I got a few and this was the best one. Yay! We also had the 3 boys next door come by after this picture was taken. Glad you could stop by, Casey family!

Noah says "finally!!! they let me in here, woo hoooooo!!!!" :)

Time to sing 'Happy Birthday' and blow out his candle. Great action shot. :)

We waited for all of the kids to leave to open Jacob's presents. It was a lot easier that way. It was hard enough to convince the kids to come out of the bounce house for cupcakes and a picture. It would have been really hard for them to come out and watch someone else open presents. So, I'm glad we waited. We didn't have to rush anything. Jacob got SO much stuff. We are so blessed to have so many great friends and family members. My Aunt Jill even sent him new Cars bedding from VA. It was such a perfect gift!! :)

Group shot with my family and the birthday boy. (Noah was napping at this point.) Love them so much. So glad that Greg and Jenny drove up from school to be with us this weekend! :)

Mommy and Daddy with the birthday boy! :)

After all the kids and everyone left, Jacob and Noah both went down for a nap and it was time for the adults to take over the bounce house. Holy moly, it was soooo much fun!!! Badi and I went in first and had Jenny take some "action shots" of us jumping. It turned into a game to see who could get the best action shot. Such a fun day for all of us!!! :)

I love this one!! :)

Jenny and I's turn! :)

Then Jimmy joined in and we jumped towards Badi. Can you tell I had hurt myself in the pic before this one? I was scared to jump as high as they did, haha.

Jimmy and Jenny were doing some awesome flips!!

And Jimmy and Amy!

I love my brothers and sister soooo much. (and Noah!) They're the best. :)

We had the bounce house until about 8pm, so we went back in again after Jacob woke up. A few neighbors came back over to jump with us. :) I got this really sweet picture of Jacob and Badi with the sun setting in the background.

Jacob thought this was soooo much fun. Ha. :)

So did Noah! ;)

Then when Badi's cousin, Farshid, got off work - he came by to check it out and do some action shots, too! :)

Overall, it was such a perfect, perfect day. Everything went so smoothly and we had such a great time. Thanks to everyone who came to help us celebrate. We missed all of our family in Virginia, North Carolina, California, Arizona, New York and in Boston. But, a special thanks to everyone who sent Jacob gifts, cards, madae phonecalls and sent emails. Our boys are so very loved and we thank you so much for that. You're the best. And this has been the best 3 years of our lives. Pretty soon it's time to start thinking about Noah's 1st birthday party. Oh my gosh, how is that possible?!?!?! :)