Happy 3rd birthday Jalen!

After hosting Jalen's 2nd birthday last year at home, I swore that his next birthday party wouldn't be at home. Yet this year, I changed my mind and thought it'd be better to have the party at home instead of at a jungle gym or something. Now, I'm saying again that next year's birthday party won't be at home! We spent Saturday afternoon shopping for groceries, Saturday evening tidying and cleaning, Sunday morning prepping, then Sunday and Monday cleaning up. I think I just recovered from the party on Tuesday. But at least the kids had lots of fun!

I was expecting about 10 - 12 kids aged 2 - 4 at the party so I knew we needed an outlet for all that energy. So this year, we had Dizzy's tumble bus come to our house. It was a good thing that we got the tumble bus too because it was raining at the start of the party.

The kids had a ball, literally. It took them no time to warm up and start having fun. The bus was only here for about 1 hour but it was plenty of time to get them worked up, tired out, then ready for some food and cake.

Jalen went down the slide head first into the balls. He loved it!

This year, for the sake of ease, we got giant cup cakes from Costco. Man, it's a lot of butter and sugar even for an adult!