Aaden's 3rd Birthday Party

Aaden's birthday happened to fall on the day we were to arrive in Capitola - so we figured it would be fun to celebrate there, on the beach, with our family that was already going to be in Capitola.  Katie and the girls were able to join us too.  And Aunt Sis and the grandparents.  It was a little stressful trying to get packed up, get there, unload, park, and then get to the beach but we did it.  And we were only 2 hours late ;-)  (Thank goodness for Aunt Sis - she helped us sooo much that day - if it weren't for her we would have been 4 hours late I'm sure!)

Looking so serious and concerned at his beach party

Addison's first trip to the beach

She just really loved eating the sand 

Cianna & Addison

So cute!

Aaden and Aunt Sis coming back from checkin' out the ocean

Hangin' on for dear life!

He did NOT want to go in the water! 

Livie loved it though

And so did the Sparling girls

Auntie Sis and Sissy 

Cianna :-) 

Sissy was intrigued by the wet sand and seaweed 

And then she got hit by a wave 

And she was pissed!

I think she's pretty cute when she's upset

Aaden was perfectly happy watching the waves with Grandma and Grandpa 

Watchin' the kids play 

Time to open some gifts 

Awesome CAT dumptruck from the Sparlings 

Addison chomped on this pizza crust for quite a while 

And it was completely covered in sand 

We were all pretty entertained by how much she dug it! 

Nom, nom, nom

Looking out over the same spot we played decades ago 

Love this picture

The kids were excited to see this plane flying over us 

Drunk guy passed out right in the sand 

And then out of no where popped up and was so excited to see his friend

He was even clapping - LOL 

Katie running down to the water with her girls

Aaden chasing birds with Emery and Ellie (they are waaay ahead of him!)

He put up a good effort though 

Our double stroller turned triple!

Love that the Fog Bank sign is in the background

Sweet kids 

Aaden's cake - 

glad he knew who Jake and the Neverland Pirates were because 

this was the only beachy-boy cake available 

Being bashful during "Happy Birthday" 

Seriously, that girl is so cute and so full of personality!

And Aaden's expression looks just like Aaron 

Blowing out the candle 

(actually, this was a reenactment since I missed the first time)  

Opening more gifts 

Cool stomp rockets from the Muenzers 

So cute! So excited for his barn 

And tractors 

Setting up his barn  

This tractor was from the Wallers Jr later that night

We had so much fun and more importantly, so did Aaden!!