Ashton's Birthday Round Up

WEDNESDAY
The birthday celebrations began Wednesday by taking lunch and cupcakes to Ashton's preschool.

I found these cute little cupcakes on pinterest and thought, "perfect."  Turns out, accourding to Chad, my boys, and even my mother, they look like spider webs.  Oh well, we like soccer and spiderman in this house so either will work! ;)

Webs or soccer ballls?

Everyone singing Happy Birthday to Ashton

Chowing down on the spiderman/ soccer ball cupcakes.

Ashton staged this picture of him eating while I took the picture. 

 THURSDAY
Thursday was not really a birthday celebrations but we did get to go on a field trip to the pumpkin patch with Ashton's preschool.  It is a smaller farm but perfect size for 2 to 5 year olds.

On the "hayride"

FRIDAY
The ACTUAL birthday.  Looking back, we crammed a lot into a small window.  We started early and tackled the birthday presents.  There was no need to wait for Chad since it was a game day.

Happy as a pig in mud!

Getting excited to open his big gift

His loot.  He got a basketball hoop (thanks to PapHub and Grandma for helping us put it together on Saturday!), a Spiderman toy, the new LarryBoy (Veggietales movie), and a Nerf football.  Oh, and Jodi and her kids got him the boardgame, Sorry! and Queenie stopped by and gave him his birthday money (he is all about cash right now)

 Right after presents, we went to see daddy at work so we could cut the brownies and sing.

Yummy brownies.

Blowing out his candles

We all then took our normal "visit daddy at work golf cart ride" around the campus.

The golf cart ride.

  

Me and the birthday boy!

We were home by 10ish and then Jodi, Connor and Karson (Jodi took her out of school to join on adventure) teamed up with us.  We went to G-ville and ate at the mall and then conquered Chuck E Cheese.

Shep and Connor (with Jodi) playing.

Shepherd is petrified of Chuck E Cheese so he would get near the rat or the picture!

The crew!  Love all these kiddos! 

We got back at 2:30 and rested for a few hours and then took off for the football game.  I had asked Chad if during the game sometime, the announcer would say Happy Birthday to Ashton.  Well, he did better than that, the whole stadium sang Happy Birthday to him.  Unfortunately, he had just started playing with Aunt Sandee's iphone and was either embarressed by the attention (doubt it) or really into the game (probably).  Either way, he told me the next day, he loved everyone singing to him.

Needless to say, it was all about Ashton the past few days.  To top it all off, he played in his last soccer game on Saturday where he scored 3 of the 4 goals for his team.  He was definitely the little all-star on his team this year.  One kid was literally all over him and by the 3rd quarter, Ashton had enough and shoved the kid off of him with both hands... hahaha- he is a fiesty little thing (unfortunately he gets it honestly from both his mother and father). 

He has two more birthday activities.  Mom and Dad have their annual "take the birthday boy to lunch and shopping" day today after church.  And then the birthday party for Ashton and Shepherd is the 10th.

Ashton, hope you had a special birthday and I CANT BELIEVE YOU ARE 5!!!!  Love you so much!