He's Four Years Old!

The decor:

The ugliest cake you've ever seen. I'm so bad at these:

Ammon's party was so fun to plan this year. His excitement and anxious anticipation makes all the work worth it. Here are a few of the guests, some making their best animal impersonation:









We played a little "duck-duck-catch a tiger by the tail":

Then we went on a Lion hunt, and we actually did catch a 'big one'. Josh dressed up in a Lion costume and we went outside and hunted him down with silly string. Definitely the highlight:
(I wish I had a picture of the real hunt)

And we made sure there was time for this:

The party was on Saturday and the real birthday was on Sunday. I was pushing to celebrate the birthday on the day we did the party but Dave wouldn't have it. Birthdays should be celebrated on birthdays right? I saw his logic, but it kind of made both days a little anti-climatic somehow. So here he is on the night before his birthday. He actually woke up in the middle of the night and opened his birthday quilt presents by himself and then went back to sleep. He just couldn't wait:

Presents in the morning are always so fun. Here he is with Sharon's awesome present she sent:

Second day of celebrating, second cake, so cute: