Jaron turns 4!

My cute little buddy is 4.  He's been so excited for his birthday.  We had a great time celebrating the entire weekend.  The day before his birthday my mom came and took him to Build a Bear which he was asking about all year since his sisters went for their birthday last year.  He picked out Chase from Paw Patrol and actually has been playing with him and sleeping with him a lot.  Some mornings he comes down the stairs and before I see him I hear him push his little sound in Chase to announce that Jaron is awake!




He was also so excited to have his first friends birthday party.  With us moving, he hasn't made a lot of friends yet.  So we decided to invite his sisters, cousins Landon and Owen and then his Sunbeam class.  It ended up being a lot of fun even though most the kids in his class couldn't come.  He wanted a Mario party.  So we played pin the star on Mario, hot potato which was a huge hit, and then played musical chairs, freeze dance and had pizza, cupcakes and presents.




The morning of his actual birthday we woke up and gave him his presents first thing.  He got a drum set, fidget spinner, ant farm (it's been too hot for the ants to be mailed yet!) and some clothes, (Mario PJs and a BYU shirt).  He keeps saying he wants to be a drummer when he grows up so we got him a small drum set and he has loved it.  He's so funny about it and keeps wanting people to come over and watch him play the drums.  haha.





After we did that we packed up and took all the kids to Lagoon for the first time.  I wasn't sure how it would go but we absolutely loved it.  The kids had so much fun and we were exhausted when we left. They have a ton of kid rides.  Aria is just tall enough for a few older rides and did her first legit roller coaster called Wicked.  She was so excited and as we got part way through she leaned over and said 'Mom this is kind of scary' but she liked it and I might have been more scared for her than she was since I squeezed her hand so hard the entire ride.  I rode the new ride Cannibal by myself which was super fun.  The day was really fun and we did a ton of rides.  We took our own lunch and had a spot in the shade which was nice to take small breaks. I was surprised how much shade Lagoon really has. Made it nice on such a hot day.





Sunday we celebrated his birthday with Lilly and my mom.



So Jaron had a great 4th birthday weekend and it's weird to think we really don't have any babies in our family any longer.  It's been fun to get out and do more as the kids get a bit older.