The Party

We had a birthday party at our house for Jack on the Saturday of Easter weekend when his grandparents could be there. The theme was Imagination Movers. (Not many of the guests were familiar with "the Movers," but Jack is a big fan of the music group and TV show out of New Orleans.) We made Movers t-shirts and placemats for souvenirs. After having a delicious tasting and adorably decorated cake at Riley Walton's birthday party, I had Laura's "cake girl" do Jack's cake. (The girl is a high school student who is in Jeff Walton's youth group.) I sent her a picture of a drum with the Imagination Movers' logo on it. She made a precious cake that was HUGE. The pictures just don't do it justice; this cake was large enough to feed 100 people, easily! (But, it sure did taste good!)

It was a beautiful day to play outside on the new playset and in the jumper!

I guess he didn't know what to do after blowing out the candle...I'm not sure what happened to his typical reaction of cheering for himself.

My Dad, Grumps, thought it would be fun to get a picture of each of the kids eating cake.

Emily Adkerson

Riley Walton

Max Phillips...I think he passed on the cake.

Kayleigh Edelblute

Caleb Edelblute

After Jack opened his presents, we attempted to get a group picture of the kids...

We also hoped to get a pictures with the adults...someone had the bright idea to "stack" the kiddos on the slide for the group picture...here's a glimpse of how that went...

After opening his presents, Jack just wanted to sit and read his new Disney book. Everyone else headed back outside, but Jack was more interested in reading....

Emily did not understand this; here she is trying to tell us to "Tell Jack to come outside and play!"

We did our best to get rid of the cake. We served large pieces and sent everyone home with some.