Jaxon's Birthday Party

We decided to celebrate Jaxon's birthday before his actual birthday which is on the 16th since Father's Day is next Sunday and my parents will be out of town. I had planned to get everything decorated and then take pictures of everything before everyone got to the party - but because Dan and I had to get our temple recommends renewed and it took WAY longer than expected, I was behind. Also - my parents neighbor has a helium tank in her garage, so we always just blow up our balloons there. Well I had called her Saturday and left a message about doing balloons there on Sunday afternoon, well I got busy - didn't realize she hadn't called me back, so I thought I would just ask her at church - well she wasn't at church so I started to think I would just have to blow them up and not have helium. Then... after talking to Dan and my sister - we decided to just go over there (because I know the garage code) and just do them. My heart was pounding the entire time and I was so nervous. Not only was it almost 5 and people were going to start showing up, but I still had other things to do to finish the party - AND I was going there without permission. This lady is seriously the nicest lady in the WORLD and I grew up with her daughters and was good friends with them so I knew she wouldn't care... but still - I felt like I was doing something wrong since I didn't have permission. But anyway, so as we are getting close to finishing, we see her car coming down the street - my heart dropped haha - we were caught red handed. She was so cute and told me she didn't care and we laughed about it and then Whitney and I hurried home to put the balloons up and finish decorating. So I didn't get great pictures of the decorations, and I forgot to take pictures of the games, but oh well!
Here is what the invitations looked like that we sent out.

We kept it to family since we did it on Sunday so we had a total of 20 people. It was so much fun!
I had the front door decorated with an Andy's room sign and balloons - and then when you walked inside there were army men parachuting through the air into the party room.

We had some fun toy story things around the house and I tried to keep everything in toy story colors.

We had delicious food - we had Buzz Lightyears UFO Burgers - Slinky's Winner Dogs - Mr. Potato Head's Potato Salad - Bo Peep's Fruit and Berries - Woody's Roundup Salad, and Alien Juice.

I made Jaxon a cake of Andy's bed with the Toy Story characters on it. It was my first time working with fondant and I have to admit it was harder than I thought it was going to be - but I think it turned out ok. 

We started off by eating dinner - it was delicious - then we did cake and ice cream and sang Happy Birthday to Jaxon. He loved it when we sang to him. He smiled the entire time and clapped and yelled YEAH when we finished. 

I filmed us singing to him and blowing out the candles - so I will have to get the still shots of that from someone else - but he was so excited to play with all the toys from the cake and he loved eating cake and ice cream! 

Next we played games - we played "snake in my boot" - we just had a boot and three little plastic snakes and everyone had 3 chances to make the snake in the boot. Funny thing - I was the only one who did it HAHA! We also had a jar of army men and people had to guess how many were in there. The other game was putting the star on sheriff woody -but we didn't end up getting to that lol. 

Then it was present time! we all gathered around for Jax to open all his gifts. He had a hard time staying focused because he just wanted to play with the gift he had just opened. It was so funny! He got lots of awesome bubbles - water stuff - toy story toys - transformer fishing set - a learning laptop - money - and his favorite - buzz lightyear. He had so much fun and we are so grateful for everyone who came and for the wonderful gifts they gave Jax and for just being there - it made his birthday so special to have family around!