Nathan's Birthday Party - The details!

I had a great time this year making almost everything for Nathan's Mickey Mouse birthday party!  I found so many ideas and wanted to do so much more for the party, but I just didn't have the time.  I have a feeling this will probably be his only party that I go all out on because afterward I was so exhausted!  It turned out to be a great party though and I know it will be great to look back at these pictures with Nathan one day.  Here are the pictures of the details:

The Front door decor - outside and inside!

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                The dessert table!

 

 

My friend Amy made the cake - Nathan loved it!!

                                                         The plates shaped as Mickey!  :)

The food labels - all the food went with the theme!

                                                      The thank you gifts for everyone!!

 

All the picture books of Nathan for the past year!

 

Nathan's party outfit!

(front)

 

Nathan's Birthday Invitation!

(back)

 

MORE TO COME OF THE ACTUAL PARTY SOON!!

Robert and Felecia's gender reveal party!!

A few weeks ago my brother-in-law and sister-in-law had a gender reveal party for their baby due in December.  We had never gone to one of these parties before and it was a lot of fun!  We were also, very excited to find out if we were going to have another boy or the first girl in the Jacks' family.  Nathan got to help open the box of balloons that revealed the gender (Terry really did it though :)).  We found out it is a boy - Matthew Bryan Jacks!  Nathan is very excited to have another boy cousin and someone he can have fun with when the family is all together.

Nathan in his cute big cousin shirt that Robert and Felecia got him.

All the girls swarmed him!  :)

Playing cars.

Look at the girls...oh my!

Eating pizza and spinach dip.

Daddy helping Nathan open the important box!

Its a boy!!

Nathan was amazed by the balloons!

Nathan loved the yummy cake!

The excited Jacks family!

We can't wait for Matthew to get here!

Peabody Water Park

A few weeks ago we went to the Peabody water park down town.  Nathan wasn't so sure about the water at first, but I decided he was going to like it!  I played with him in it for awhile and then Terry did.  After awhile he started really liking it!  Here are the pics!

Paradise Park

About a week and a half ago we went to Paradise Park in Jacksonville with my family and went to feed the ducks.  Nathan was interested in it for a little while, but he mainly liked just wearing his mom out and running all over the whole park!  We saw ducks, geese, swans and muskrats.  Nathan loved seeing all the animals. 

He loves animals!

Running around!

Down he goes!!

Alexa helping Nathan feed the animals!

Pretty goose!

Here come the muskrats!

I'm Back!!

So, I know its been forever and a day since I have posted!  What can I say, this little boy keeps me insanely busy!  He does not like it when I get on the computer, so I can only get on here when he is asleep.  I could try and catch up on our life the past year or so, but I think that would be way too time consuming, so I think I am just going to start where we are right now!  Yesterday was Father's day.  Terry is an awesome father to Nathan, so we did a few things to make him feel loved!  For breakfast I made his favorite - cinnamon rolls!  We gave him his gifts and Nathan made him a few things like a card and a little picture.  We went to church and then went to our favorite Thai restaurant and had lunch with both our dads.  Then last night Terry got to go out for a guys night.  All in all I think he had a pretty good day! 

Here are some pictures I took of Nathan and his Daddy for Father's day:

One of Nathan's gifts to his Daddy!

Nathan's card to his Daddy.  He colored it for him!

Nathan wants to be just like his Daddy and likes to copy him.  His new thing is that he wants his towel just like Daddy wears his.  It really cracks me up!

Long time, no blog...

Sorry, for my long absence (I promise I am going to start doing better, although nobody reads this thing)! Nathan takes so much of my time it is so hard to be motivated to write in here. Nathan is 4 and 1/2 months old now and I cannot believe it! He is growing so fast, it makes me sad. He is rolling over, both ways from his belly and from his back. He is laughing and talking (baby talk, not saying actual words :) ) all the time! He loves playing with his feet more than anything, not toys compare to them!! I love him so much and I still cannot believe God has blessed me with such an awesome gift!!

Nathan's first Christmas was wonderful! He got a little fussy because the holidays really messed with our schedule, but Terry and I had a great time experiencing Christmas as parents. You realize when you are a parent how things don't really matter anymore., it's all about family. Terry and I didn't really care about what we got, but we loved giving Nathan gifts and seeing what he did with them. I know next year will be even better because he will actually know what is going on more and be able to interact better.

Here are some pics of him lately!!

***I am going to try to start doing some different things on my blog, we shall see if I actually stick to this!***