Happy 5th Birthday Bailey!

We had a "Teddy Bear Picnic" at the park by our house.

We searched the WORLD for the perfect teddy bear decorations...and paid 10x more to have them shipped here!

Bailey's "Teddy" was the special centerpiece!

The picnic included potato salad, chips, baked beans, pasta salad and condiments like heirloom tomatoes from the garden at the LACC.

There were also fruit and vegatable arrangements in flower pots

Mom cooked delicious hamburgers and dodger dogs with grilled onions, mushrooms & saurkraut on fresh baked buns

It was the first time our whole family was together!  

All the people we loved the most came to celebrate!  

Bailey had a vanilla and red velvet checkerboard cake with white icing

It was daddy's birthday too so he got a special cupcake!

Thank you everyone for the wonderful and generous gifts!

We stuffed our own teddy bears

Then we all went swimming!

   Happy Birthday Ben!

We had a pirate themed party. 

There were pirate hats, tattoos, gold teeth, skull balloons and all kinds of pirate decorations

The invitations were a message in a bottle with a treasure map to the lagoon where the party was held

Ben had his very own ship filled with balloons

We had a taco bar for dinner

Ben's cake was chocolate with chocolate frosting. The fondant treasure chest was filled with 24 carat gold. Because every 3-year old pirate needs real gold! The skull cupcakes were yellow cake with buttercream frosting.

Everyone had an awesome time!

At the end of the night we roasted marshmallows and burned the ship in the bonfire