Jackson's 6th Birthday!

So Jackson spent one day with his two best friends from school, Garrett and Nolan, and they all celebrated their birthdays, since they all have July birthdays.  He had his camping birthday with his cousins and then on his real big day, we took him to Legoland in Atlanta.  He had a great birthday, week, month.  Take a look at a few pictures of Jackson celebrating his big day.

Jackson's 6th Birthday Camping Trip

Wow! what a great first camping experience for Jackson and Jensie.  First thing Yaya fell and scraped her knee and hands, Michael cut his finger putting up the brand new 8 person tent, and Jensie fell out of her chair.  You'll see my face in a picture I was taking of me and Jackson when she fell.  Pop did about all the cooking, and we sure had some good food.  We spent some time at the lake, roasted marshmallows, hiked to the waterfalls, and had the best birthday party.  We had snake venom, dirt and worms and pop made an awesome hedgehog watermelon carving.  We then had a scavenger hunt and the kids enjoyed hitting the piñata.  The kids of course had tons of fun just running around and playing.  We watched the grown men spend about 3 1/2 hours trying to get Jackson's boomerang out of a tree.  They started with trying to throw a football to get it out, but they somehow ended up getting the football stuck in the tree, so they decided to shake the tree.  Brent tries to climb the tree, I try getting on Trent's shoulders and finally they get a rope around the tree.  They spent a while with this tactic, then Brent constructs a sling shot and with that they tied a water bottle with a glow stick inside to a very long piece of rope and they took turns throwing that at the boomerang and finally they got the boomerang, but no football.  Jensie woke Jackson up one morning by pouring water on him, he was having a dream about jello and then he jumped in the jello and realized he was wet for real.  Jackson fell and pop got stung by a bee to conclude our camping trip.  Take a look at all my photos.

Too Much Fun in Blue Ridge over the 4th with the Callihan Clan

What a time we had with the Callihan cousins in Blue Ridge.  We went floating down the Toccoa, went to see Brave at the Drive In, went swimming at the Copper Basin swimming pool, watched fireworks in Copperhill, went on a jeep ride with Pop and played in the creek.  Jackson also rode a horse with Luke and shot fireworks with Luke and Bryson in the field.  He went on a treasure hunt with Pop after finding an old map in Pop's army bag. They spent half a day breaking away to find some old coins and jewelry.  We had a very busy time, then we went to visit Aunt Lucy in Atlanta and Jackson was having fun with his older cousins Callihan and Roxie and he walked backwards in the pool and we ended up at the emergency room till midnight and Jackson got 6 stitches.  We went back to Blue Ridge the next day and Jensie called 911 and the cops show up at Yaya's house to check on us. I was so embarrassed.  We spent  a few more days there and got to have a play date with our sweet friend Nola.  After spending 10 days there we finally made it to down town to do a little shopping and get some cup cakes.  I was really ready to get home and just watch movies for a week.  Oh, Jensie's big news is that she started walking as soon as we got to Blue Ridge.  Take a look at all the photos of all our adventures.