Jace's Birthday

Wow, what a week. Jace celebrated his 2nd Birthday last Sunday with family and friends. I loaded all the pictures onto our PC and lo and behold, the PC completely died like the next day. We have a 90 day warranty on it and luckily the 90 days weren't up yet, so we're able to send in the computer and get a new one. The bad news is we lost the pictures on that computer. Luckily, Lance thought to buy a backup hard drive and moved the majority of our pictures onto it, but not all of them were there, so all of the recent pictures are pretty much gone that were on there. The good news is that I save all the memory cards we have and can load them again. So, anyways, yeah. I hope I've blogged about everything recent in case there are some pictures we don't have. Lance bought his own mac for school, so he generously has let me use it to blog about Jace's Birthday and everything that has happened in the last couple weeks since our Vegas trip.

Last Saturday, since we had Lance home, we decided to get up and go to what's called the Pumpkin Walk out in Grantsville at the Benson Gristmill. I wasn't sure what it was all about, so we decided to go. We actually got invited to go on Friday with some ward members, but Jace had his doctor appointment, so we didn't make it. So, I made Lance get up and go with us instead.


They had this wagon full of pumpkins. It was a great location to get some pictures. Now, if only all the people weren't in the background.


Here we are on the little short hay ride. Jace loved it.


Then he got to pet the horse at the end. I was so worried about Jace pulling its hair.

They also had some little booths that the kids could go trick-or-treating to and where you could also buy stuff. It was a fun cheap little activity to do while Lance was home.

On Sunday, we were able to celebrate Jace's 2nd Birthday. It worked out because we had to go out to West Valley for a baby blessing, so Grandma Rowley let us just use her house for the party. Then, nobody had to travel.


Jace has a thing for choo choo's lately, so I decided to put my attempts at making him a train cake. I think it's pretty good considering I've never made and decorated a cake before. Plus, everyone knew what it was supposed to be which is a plus.


I thought Jace might have been excited about opening presents this year. I was very wrong. He could have cared less about the presents until I opened them and gave them to him to play with.


Here he is with his Birthday cake while everyone was singing to him. He didn't like the candles though. He just kept saying "all done" and wouldn't blow them out. It was a little windy then anyways. The wind blew them out.


Here's my big boy eating his cake all by himself.

We were glad it was able to work out and we could spend the day with so many family and friends.

On Monday, it was Jace's actual Birthday. Lance had to work and then he started his second semester of school. I thought Jace deserved to do something fun on his Birthday, so we went up to Layton to feed the ducks with Sarah and Dagny.


This is to show how close they were to us. It was a little scary having geese honking right in our faces begging for food. I was waiting for them to attack us for food at any given moment.


Jace was scared of them at first. He hid away up on this ledge where they weren't and just cried. It wasn't long before he was down running through the middle of them though.


Then the kids got to play on the playground. As you can see, Jace prefers going down the slide backwards.

The one thing I wanted to do for Jace's Birthday was take him to the zoo. He's never been and I just thought he would love it. Lance wanted to go too, so we decided to head up there yesterday. We met Sarah and Noah there. When we planned it, we had no idea that it was trick-or-treat day at the zoo. We were a little worried about it being so crowded, but it worked out. It rained on us while we were there, but it was still so much fun, and as I suspected, Jace loved it.




Here's the cute baby elephant with its mommy.


I know this is extremely disgusting, but while we were there, the mommy elephant went to the bathroom and the baby thought it was her play toy. Yeah, gross.


I just loved the penguins. They were so cute. They just stood there and looked up at the people that were watching them.


Here's the baby giraffe with its mommy. Again, so cute.


This tiger cub was so cute. It just sat in one spot overlooking the bridge where the people were. I can't believe how many babies were born this year at the zoo!


I can't believe I got this picture. i wonder if Jace looked at me because the alligator was his favorite animal or what. He NEVER looks at the camera.


This picture came out just a little blurry, but at least we got a good picture showing what he thought of the carousel. He absolutely giggled throughout the ride.

The train was closed due to bad weather. That was pretty sad because I think Jace would have loved it.


Here's Jace and Dagny in their Halloween costumes. Jace was Charlie Brown, but you can't see the shirt because of his jacket and it was too cold for him to wear the shorts.


I can't believe we managed to get Jace to do the gorilla arms in this picture either.


Here's our whole family posing as gorillas.

That's the end of Jace's Birthday adventures. I think he enjoyed celebrating his second Birthday. I know I did.

One last thing to end this post. I laughed when Jace did this last night.

We were at my nephew and nieces' house and it was time for them to go to bed. Well, my niece, Brynn has a couch in her room. When we went in to put Brynn to bed, Jace grabbed a blanket and went and layed on her couch. I think he thought that since they were going to bed, it was his bedtime too. So, we shut the door and he stayed there. My niece just said to me "now I won't be scared anymore!" I thought it was the cutest thing ever! Jace was going to just sleep over with her if he could and Brynn thought that having Jace in the room with her would make it less scary. Jace loves his cousins so much.