This is what we decorated the tables with. We originally wanted to put down table clothes but the wind was so bad they wouldn't stay on the table unless we put more tape in it than the actual table cloth. I think it looked better all natural anyways.
Pig and cake lay out. I will talk about the cake later in the pictures...yeah that is a deer.
That is the sign. We had the party out at the FGCU Buckingham Center, off of Buckingham Road. It was a great location!
Here is Jimmy coming up to his party. I think he had put it together by this time.
We made a fire in the big put just for looks at first. It did provide nice heat later on.
Some of the spread.
Yes, I have to put in pictures of O'lena.
This is the best part. Jim got to cut into his own pig. I think he kind of enjoyed it. We did have enough pig to last a good couple of meals later too. He/she was yummy.
This is the park where it too place. We thought it was quite nice. It is open to the public for parties and retreats.
Everyone digging in.
Olena playing with the puzzles.
Say cheese!
Gunkle and Lena.
Yeah, we made him serve his own pig.
The deer to tell you where to turn. Jim did say he recognized it when turning in, but wasn't sure at that point why it was out there.
The view from a far.
The second best idea that I had...i thought it was funny....
Derick smoking the hamburgers...hahaha..he was just suppose to be grilling them but for some reason it got a but smokey. You can see which way the wind was blowing.
Grandma Lee and Jeff came down from North Carolina for the party. It was a big surprise too. We had known for a couple of weeks that they were coming and it was really hard not to slip and say something. REALLY HARD
Awwww the cake. These are out of order..of course, but here is where he started cutting the cake. I'll talk more about this cake later.
O'lena's best friend. She loves Autumn.
Stuffing the face with marshmallow. mmmmmm
So the fire place was so big that even Derick could get roasted. :) I think this was my favorite picture of the evening.
Jimmy's cake! The best cake ever!! It is a deer! With a cigar! And a shot gun! And a liquiar!! So stinking cute!! And yummy too.
Me and a tuckered out Linguini. I had a better one where I was not grabbing her crotch to keep her up on my lap, but it has seemed to have disappeared.
At the end we had ran out of firewood so we sent Bryan and Ashely to round up some more. They came back with a tree. It was so long that it didn't fit in the truck so Ashley had to hold on to it while the truck pulled it around.
Round two, or was it three. They were the best firewood finders out there.
Cutting the last bit of meat off the hog. We didn't want to waist any of it. Jimmy is getting carving lessons from mamma. I thought this was so cute.
Naturally this is out of order, but this is O'lena with Grandad. He is her comfort pad. When ever she see him, she goes right up into his lap. So stinking cute.
All in all, everyone had a great time. I am curtain the birthday boy did; which is the only thing that matters. We just hope this will go in history as his most favorite birthday ever! Well at least I do and think mom does too.
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