Jake Turns 30!!!

I wanted to do something special for Jakey since he was turning the big 3-0.  So I asked our family/friends to email me some memories they had of Jake.  They sent all sorts of stories from the last thirty years.  I printed them and hid them in 30 balloons.  Then Scarlett helped me carry the balloon train into dad.  As he popped them he read the stories aloud.  It was a fun adventure down memory lane!  We even learned a few things like Jenny tattled on Jake and that's how his mom found out about the hole he punched in his wall - Jake had previously thought that his mom must have seen it when the poster covering it waved in the wind from the door closing.  Or that he and Jenny made a dinosaur museum under his bed.  Jake's mom had a horse fall on her when she was prego with Jake.  Jake's dad remembered when Jake was on his mission he was doing service hanging Christmas lights on a light pole and the ladder fell out from under him.  He just dangled while hanging on as his companion rolled on the ground laughing.  Mary remembered when Jake was in college and accidentally signed up for figure skating (thought it was hockey) then his bro-in-laws paid him to wear a tutu for his final performance.  And so many more!!!!!!!!!

Thanks to everyone who sent me stories and made Jake's birthday so special!!!