Jace is THREE!!!

Today is Jace Man's THIRD birthday! I can't believe it!!! In some ways it feels like he's always been in our lives, but in others, it seems like he was this tiny only yesterday.

Jace at the hospital....so sweet...so innocent...it was definitely love at first sight.

I love his big mouth! When he cried it took up his whole face!!

Here is Jace on his first birthday. LOVE those big BLUE eyes. During my pregnancy Trevor always commented on how he wanted him to have blue eyes. I told him the chances were pretty unlikely considering his are dark brown and mine are hazel. I am happy to have been wrong....

Jace on his second birthday, becoming such a big boy.

Here's my baby today. Not really a baby anymore. It's sad but so fun at the same time. I love getting to know him more every day. He has such a fun personality and always wants to have a good time.

We celebrated Jace's birthday on Saturday while Jen, Kevin and their girlys were in town. Here are the kiddos fishing at the fair.

And of course we had to indulge in Cotton Candy!

Here is the birthday boy at his Mickey Mouse party. All of the fam came over and we ate incredibly good food (spring rolls, dips, spreads, stuffed mushrooms, antojitos, veggies & dip, etc.) and visited.

Here's "Sissy Mouse" (that's Jace's nickname for her....so cute.) in her tutu and Mickey Ears.

Jace was really good at letting Brooklyn help him open his presents. He was so excited with each gift that we had to remind him that there were more to open.

Kylee drew Jace a beautiful birthday picture!!

Jace driving his new Jeep. He caught on pretty quick and can go forward and backwards. We're still working on his steering.....

Brooklyn wanted to take a turn too. She just puts the pedal to the metal and goes until she crashes into something.

Jace blowing out the candles on his Mickey cake. He had a lot of practice this past week with Wes' & Vickie's birthday.

Jen & the Vixter are trying to get kisses from Brooklyn. She's such a tease!

All of the kids enjoyed Jace's gifts. It was fun to see how well Shel's kids got along with Jen's kids.

The "bigger" kids got into it too!

Even though we celebrated Jace's birthday on Saturday, I still wanted to do something fun for him today. I called Tara up and we took the kids to the Kangaroo Zoo. It has all sorts of bouncy slides and toys for the kids to play on. At first the kiddos just wanted to jump at the bottom of the slides, but they got pretty daring and had fun going up and down the slides.

Brooklyn riding the dinosaur/Loch Ness Monster.

It's been a lot more fun this year because the kids are more into birthdays and actually understand the concept of it. We've been discussing birthdays for the past month or so and Jace was really looking forward to his special day. We just love our little Jace Man!! It's nice to have an excuse to celebrate him (not that we don't celebrate him every day) and remember him as a little baby.