Captain Jack's 3rd Birthday Matey

We celebrated Jackson's 3rd birthday on Sunday with a little family pool party at my mom's house. I found some cute pirate party invitations and favors at Target, so that was the theme of the party. I use the term theme very loosely because I didn't really go all out with pirates besides the invites and favors.

The party was perfectly small with just our parents, siblings and cousins.  Mr. cooked an amazing barbeque lunch with smoked ribs, homemade mac & cheese and baked beans.  This pregnant momma was in pure heaven! Something finally tasted good for the first time in weeks!

Jackson had a great time swimming with his grandpas and uncles and caught bugs and sharks with his cousins.  It was so fun to watch them all play together and enjoy each others company.

I'm pretty sure Jackson's favorite part of the party was digging in to his cake! He had been talking about his chocolate ice cream cake for a week.  This month is a birthday packed time for our family, so Jackson was nice enough to share his cake with his two aunts and two of his uncles as well!

Jackson loved all of his birthday gifts and is looking forward to starting up another session of swim lessons with his favorite coach.  And we are all excited for the swing set my parents are going to get for our backyard...well except for Mr. who is dreading mowing around it and watching his perfect grass die under the slide:) My dad and step-dad think they have figured out a way to change up the swing set we like, so that it will fit better in our yard.  Fingers crossed that it will work!

It's hard to believe that this little Captain Jack will be three in less than 2 weeks - argh!