Happy 11th Birthday Jaron!

Today we celebrated eleven wonderful years with our little JarBear. He started off his birthday with crepes for breakfast...his favorite breakfast food...and he really enjoyed them! 

  Since it was Sunday, we went to church and didn't do any other birthday stuff until later that day. For dinner we had some family come over for a BBQ and after dinner we let Jaron open his birthday presents. Here's my goofball getting ready to see what he got...this is his excited face...     Jantzen and Jaedyn were so excited for Jaron to open the presents they picked out for him. They, of course, got him some Legos and Hero Factory's...surprise, surprise!    Seriously, Jaedyn's facial expressions in all these pictures lately really crack me up!     The main thing Jaron had asked for this year was this baby...a new Nerf gun, not that he doesn't already have enough to start his own army with...     Jaron was happy with all of his presents. He got two new "Nerf" guns with a bandolier to hold all of his extra bullets, two new "Hero Factory's", a Lego "Ninjago" set, a Lego "Creator Motorcycle" set, the "Kane Chronicles" book series, his very own set of speakers for his iPod (so he won't keep using mine), some money from his grandma and grandpa King, and some money for books on his Kindle Fire and a pack of Otter Pops from his grandma and grandpa Goddard...     After Jaron was all done opening his presents, I got his birthday cake out so we could sing "Happy Birthday" to him. Jaron saw this cake on Pinterest a while ago and insisted that he wanted it for his birthday cake. It consisted of everything he loves...chocolate cake, chocolate frosting, Kit Kats, and M&M's. I called it "Death by Chocolate" because it was sooo chocolaty, but really good!     Just look how happy his face is to have all that chocolate in front of him...he was in heaven with it all!     We lit eleven candles for him and sang "Happy Birthday" to him...     ...then he blew out his candles!     Before we ate any cake we went into the front room to sing "Happy Birthday" to Jaron again because Jantzen has been practicing it on the piano just so he could play it for him on his birthday...what a sweet little brother. Jantzen did such a good job and he was so excited to play for Jaron on his birthday...     Then we all went and enjoyed some cake and ice cream...     After the kids were all done eating their cake, they quickly went in to war mode with Jaron's arsenal of Nerf guns. Check out how tough and intimidating Jaron (or I should say Zac) looks in this picture. He was ready for battle...     Here's the whole crew, minus Jantzen and Jaedyn (not sure what they were doing), getting ready to fight...     And then the battle began...     Jaron had a really fun weekend celebrating his birthday and so did I. He's such a good, caring, loving, helpful kid and I'm so happy that he's a part of our family. HAPPY 11TH BIRTHDAY JARON...WE LOVE YOU!!