Party time

We celebrated Anthony's 3rd birthday this past Saturday with family and friends. The kids had a great time playing outside while the adults marveled at how our South Florida group has grown to include so many little ones, with Allison the most junior member of the bunch.

Even before the party started, Anthony was super excited about his fire truck cake, which mom and Grandma Char made from a video Brandon found on Youtube. By way of convincing us to undertake this project, he repeatedly mentioned the video was only 6 minutes long...



As for the actual cake production...six minutes my @!*. Regardless, the cake was cute and delicious, and the party was a ton of fun...here are some outtakes:

The birthday boy himself, getting ready to party:

The cake, aka our masterpiece:

Anthony loved hearing everyone sing "Happy Birthday" - even joining in to serenade himself - and did a great job blowing out his candles all on his own:

Did I mention we made this:

Anthony had a great time opening his gifts, and even (kind of) let some of his little friends help:

We also took the chance to snap some family pictures while we were all in our party clothes.

The guys:

The girls:

Grandma Char and Grandpa Dave with the kids:

The four of us: