The big day!

For weeks Jacoby kept telling us that for his birthday he wanted balloons so Jarod and I blew up over 100 balloons and put them on our floor so when he woke up they were right there waiting for him.

He were so excited!!

and had a blast running through them

and making big piles and jumping into them.

I think his day would have been perfect for him if we stopped there but we didn't.

We got up and made pancakes- his favorite and then we took him down to his play room to see his big surprise.

He loves helping us in the kitchen so Jarod and I found this beat up kitchen and fixed it up for our little chef. We got him pots and pans and Mamma and Paka got him food. He was so excited and he loves it! He is constantly making us food and pretending that he is making something.

After lunch, the elf came. The elf has been coming every day in December and leaving something in his advent calendar. The elf came and delivered some more birthday surprises and then we asked him if he wanted to know his other surprises. He told us no that he wanted to be surprised so we loaded him in the car and headed out to the Newport aquarium. About half way there he told us he was ready to here his surprise so we told him where we were going. He loves the aquarium and this was a new one for him so he was super excited. When we got there we bought a yearly pass for all of us for his birthday and enjoyed a really fun day at the aquarium. Then we asked him what he wanted for dinner and it was his pick of course he picked pizza. His absolute favorite. Then we came home and had cupcakes. It was the best day with our three year old!