Earthquakes, Hurricanes, Birthday Oh My!

Jack's 5th birthday week was a doozy!!! We had all these great plans for a family party and a trip to Busch Gardens but all that was thwarted by Mother Nature. We should have know that the earthquake early in the week was a sign that the birthday extravaganza was not going to go off as planned. Hurricane Irene decided to head straight for Virginia Beach and we knew that we would have a very disappointed 5 year old if his birthday was canceled! So, Mommy tore off her work clothes to reveal her Super Mommy suit underneath and got to work rearranging the birthday plans on a few hours notice.

We decided that we were going to head out of town ahead of Irene because the thought of losing power with 3 small kids was almost more than Mommy could bare. This meant that the family dinner scheduled for Friday evening was getting pushed back to Thursday evening--a decision that was made at 10am on Thursday morning. The first call was to the bakery to beg and plead with them to make Jack's birthday cake ASAP so that we could it pick up that afternoon. Sugar Plum Bakery came through and it turned out AMAZING!!!

Luckily almost all of our family and friends were able to accommodate the last minute change and even though Mommy may have grown a few more gray hairs in the process, Jack had a blast!


Henry and Will were very interested in helping Jack open his gifts.

Jack received his iPod Touch and couldn't have been happier!

Dinosaur masks!!!

Nana and Papa gave all 3 boys a bounce house--the best gift ever!!!!

On Friday (Jack's actual birthday) we evacuated and it was definitely a birthday to remember!

Once we got to Charlottesville, we took the boys to the Bounce House to get some energy out. The babies were fearless...

Truth be told, Jack has a great birthday and didn't even know that things were stressful, to say the least!