Wild Weekend

Jackson was all smiles when he arrived at the "party" on Saturday night. He had spent a fun-filled day with his daddy, but was ready to hang out with the gang. He even wore his new party shirt. Jared said that he insisted on putting on his red hawaiian shirt--I love it!

Jackson got to meet JP for the first time and really had fun scoping out all of his new cool toys. This bulldozer was a fave for a while...

Then it was time to move over to the conference table and do some light reading. Jackson's "reading" to JP here and showing him the pages.

JP decided he could hang with the big boy and picked up a book himself:)

These two dudes weren't still for long, though, and soon had talked JP's mommy into taking them on a ride. They saw all kinds of wildlife on their neighborhood safari.

Since it was such a pretty day on Sunday, we decided to continue our time outdoors and invited the fam over to go swimming.

The water was a little cool to begin with, but then it felt AWESOME!

Madison did great--she even went under 4 times and never cried one tear...we're hoping that Jackson takes some pointers from her!

I was so excited, though, b/c Jackson actually went swimming! Last year we could not keep him in the water--he was much more content to just play with the water hose. Here he is taking a jump off the spa.

"Wow! This really is fun, mom! Way better than that water hose."

"AGAIN! AGAIN!"

After all that jumping, this little guy was ready to take it easy. He took in some rays in his turtle float and enjoyed the Sunday afternoon. Ahhh, how nice. Can't wait to do it again.