Jackson turns 6!

That's right, our big boy is now even bigger! Jackson celebrated his 6th birthday with a whole day of fun and excitment. He decided that this year he wanted to spend the whole day at Sunsplash, our local waterpark and arcade place, instead of the traditional birthday party. So we set out fairly early, around 10am and started off with a very hot round of mini-golf (it was forecast to be over 100 degrees that day!) Of course the next thing to do was go to the WATER PARK! I have to say it was the perfect day for it. We spent about 4 hours swimming, sliding, splashing and jumping the waves in the wave pool. We rented a little cabana and had our pizza and root beer lunch delivered right to us without missing a moment of fun! Once we were all ready to drop dead from exhaustion we moved onto the arcade and played some video games, Disney Dance-Dance and MarioKart being the favorites! Now you would think that we were pretty much done for the day, but oh no, we still had presents, cake and ice cream to do!!! My favorite part of the day was when Jackson opened one of his presents from us. He really wanted a new Wii game for his birhtday, so I wrapped it in an old shoe box to trick him. Well it worked! I wish I would have video tapped it, he was so upset when he saw the shoe box. He kept asking why I got him shoes he didn't like and in the wrong size (the box was from Ryan's old shoes!) I finally convinced him to open the box and he went crazy when he saw the game! It was pretty darn funny, if I do say so myself! It was a great birthday and I think Jackson would agree. Of course he's already moving on to his 7th birthday... ugh! Why do they have to be in such a hurry to grow up!?