Birthday Beach/Drum/Marshmallow Bash

Christine and Noah!

Julie with her 5 week old baby, Cooper. Unfortunately Riley, Jaedyn's good buddy never made it into the photo shoot. :(

Thank the good Lord for Brooke! She put a very, sleepy Ashlyn to sleep for me.




Greg, Cori and Kelly Jacobson (minus Lauren!)


Rebecca and Jaedyn enjoying a delicious smores!



Grandpa Tom Gharst and Grandma Maryanne Gharst with Lilly and Ashlyn. And of course there's Allison in the middle. :)

Ashlyn reading some books with her little friend, Kai.

We celebrated Jaedyn's 3rd birthday this past weekend with a drum playing, marshmallow roasting party. I must admit that this was much more work than either Rob or I were expecting. First of all...in order to get a fire-pit on the beach I'm thinking you have to arrive at the beach the night before or maybe before the sun rises. Rob arrived at Moonlight Beach at 7am on the day of our party only to find that every single fire pit was taken. :( There goes my great idea right out the window. While the both of us were having heart attacks our good friends Greg and Allison had planned on bringing all of the firewood so while breaking the awful news about the firepits to them we learned that they were willing to bring a traveling firepit along with the firewood to the beach. Yay for the Gharsts!

So, fires and marshmallows we had. Hooray. Rob and I also decided to provide some kind of dinner for everyone seeing that it was around dinner time. So we got take out from one of our favorite places, Brett's B-bq. We ordered some pulled b-bq chicken, a bit too much in fact. So guess what we'll be having for dinner for the next 3 months? That's right.....b-bq chicken. :)

Anyway, Jaedyn had a great time. We did manage to collect some birthday stragglers for the drum party and Jaedyn was very excited about eating his first smore. Thanks to everyone for celebrating with us with drums, chicken and marshmallows. :)