birthday party fun!

Although Jack's birthday was a few weeks ago, we finally had his party yesterday.

He wanted a baseball theme and invited a few friends from school.

Even though it was hot, we had a nice breeze and everyone had a great time.

We had corndogs and crackerjacks for lunch and baseball cupcakes as well.
Here's Jack blowing out the candles...

...and Melody thoroughly enjoying her cupcake.

Jack has received a John Deere toy every year and this year was no exception. (Thanks, Cade!)He also got a lot of fun books, a puzzles and many games we've enjoyed playing all weekend!

They got a good baseball game going.
Jack created a baseball player out of a traced version of himself and they had a fun game of trying to throw the baseball into the glove.

This is Jack's friend, Brad. He's going to be a professional ball player when he grows up. I'm not kidding. The kid is g.o.o.d. Check out that form!
They got to make their own pennants.

And after all that baseball fun, they went off to find acorns and rolly-polys.

Here was the family picture we took.

Which was a little bit different from last year at this time!

Happy Birthday, Jack! As he told me today, "Being 5 is fun!"