Tyler's Birthday Party

We had a little party for Tyler's 3rd birthday this year. I gathered from all the resources I had to make it a little playground in the basement of Mimi and Pop-pops house! Thanks to some generous friends and family to let us borrow two ball pits, tunnels, balloons, a tent and a climbing thing... it was full of fun things for the kids to play with!

I wanted to make him a cake, but had no idea what he wanted. Everytime I asked him he just said he wanted chocolate... so I looked online for a "cool cake" idea and found the idea for a frog... which was super easy and turned out pretty close to what the site had on it. It tasted good too! And most important, Tyler loved it!

Tyler seemed to enjoy himself, and it was as low key as I can do (I can tend to want to over-do events!). He was really blessed to play with some buddies and just be a boy. He had been talking about his birthday party for months (literally). Here are some shot from the party! I cannot believe he is 3! How the time flies!

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