Jared's Birthday - Build a Bear

So much has been going on and just like that I am behind a week already. Last Saturday was Jared's 8th Birthday. We had originally planned to have his birthday party at Bounce U, which is a place with the blow-up slides and other toys that kids and adults (like me) really love to play on. But, Jared broke his collarbone and so that was out. Therefore, we moved our reservation all the way back to January for Brett's party and made arrangements for something a little less wild for Jared. It was a compromise but Jared was OK with it. Jared instead had a party at Build-a-Bear Workshop and invited a few of his friends.

Here is Jared stuffing in bear.

This is a picture of the entire crew as a group doing their best at nice smiles. From left to right we have Ashley, Madison, Jared, Ryan, Jacob, Mosiah and Brett.

This is the whole group making faces for the camera.

Following the activities at Build-a-Bear, we went to the food court area of the mall and blew out candles and had some cake. Here is Jared blowing out his candles.

Here Lori is cutting the cake and serving everyone. Jared is digging in.

Jacob doesn't need a fork. I am not sure what Jared is doing in the back. I think he is going with the fork-less method of eating as well.

Jared opened his gifts from his friends. It was a fun party.

The birthday party at Build-a-Bear was held on the Friday before Jared's birthday because we have football games on Saturday. So, before we headed to the football games on Saturday Jared opened his gifts from the family. His favorite gift was the rock tumbler/polisher even though he also got a Nintendo DS. Go figure. After Jared's football game, which he did not play in because his collarbone has not healed enough yet, his team sang "Happy Birthday" to him and Jared brought cookies for the team.