We started Chase's big day Friday night by baking a dumptruck cake for his "construction" party the next day. Chase was a big help... can't you tell :)
The finished product of the dumptruck cake!!
Saturday morning Chase woke up to find an alligator teeter-totter waiting for him downstairs from Grandma & Papa T!
Loves those musical cards
Next up - a special breakfast of Mickey Mouse pancakes!
Onto more presents.... a new bike!!!
A DIY car and airplane from Aunt Christine, Uncle Jim & Ben and a set of real golf clubs from Daddy!!
Papa would be so proud :)
Later that day we had Chase's party down at the park by our house. This is the last year I try to plan an outdoor party for my monkey because 2 years in a row we have been killed by the wind! (I think I still have in my mind that we live in CA and the weather will always be good :) ) Last year we tried the park party but it was soooo windy that we had to move it to our house. This year we had a bounce house rented and lots of fun contruction decorations but the wind killed our plans again. We had to cancel the bounce house and couldn't use any of our cute decorations :( We still did the party at the park but it just ended up a little different than I had planned. Luckily during the party the wind died down and the sun came out and it actually ended up being gorgeous - thank goodness! We played on the playground, fed the ducks in the lake, rode on scooters and our roller coaster, colored and ate pizza and ice cream. Also, I was so relieved because one of our neighbor friends offered to bring their mini jump house for the kids. I was soo happy because Chase had been so excited about a bounce house so I was feeling so bad that we had to cancel the big one. It ended up being a very fun party for Chase! Of course he spent the majority of the time riding Kyler's scooter around instead of playing with his friends - ha ha!
After the party at the park we headed back to our house with the whole family to keep the celebration going! The kids played and the adults watched the Preakness and had fun just having some drinks and spending time together. Chase also got to open all his presents from the family - including a new scooter from Aunt Jill that she ran out to get during his party when she saw how much he loved Kyler's scooter at the party :)
We ended the night by singing Happy Birthday to Chase so he could blow out his 3 birthday candles. He didn't get a chance to do it at the park because it was so windy :)
Chase's birthday ended on Sunday when we got to finish opening all his presents from his friends that he got at his party!! What a lucky kid with great little friends :)
