hayden turns 6

on december 30th, at 5:49am, hayden michael turned 6 years old!
this year, with a few suggestions from me, hayden decided on having a lego themed birthday party.
unfortunately, jessica and justin had to leave that day for alaska as fireflight would be playing a show there on new years eve. dad also wasn't able to make it as their power went out the nite before and he had to stay home with the generator to make sure the house didn't flood. mom did bring him so cake though!
we still had a basement full with mom, jenn and rainah, the howard family, tina, and jack and caroline skiver.
i made 4 cakes shaped like lego pieces and hayden and dave had been building lego things all week to use as decorations. each of the kids got a box with a lego set, lego fruit snack, stickers and lego candy in them.
hayden got some more wooden trains and accessories, some games, some leapster games, some cd's and some gift cards and some money. we actually just went to target the other day so he could spend his gift cards and he got himself some blendy pens and 2 new trains.
after bringing his new trains upstairs to play by himself, he realized he was lonely and decided to share. all of the kids jumped right in and they had a great time playing with the train set. hayden, of course, tried telling them just how they should play but he got over it after a bit and they all played together really nicely.
hayden is so excited to be 6 and kept telling us "now i'm bigger than a 5 year old, cuz i'm 6 now!" it's hard to believe it though. time just seems to be speeding up.
we love you, hayden! happy 6th birthday!!!!

the cakes:




jenn keeping the babies occupied while we finished getting ready:
let's get this party started:


seeing if anyone would notice him playing some xbox:
more train stuff!:

whenever we would ask him to smile he'd just give us this goofy fake smile and stare:
from jessica and justin. and only 1 kid was knocked out that nite:
there's that stare again:


hayden insisted on rearranging the candles before we could light them:


my frosting colors are always a hit with the kids:
talan found hayden's plate unattended and decided to dig in:


lorelei:
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