The Bracken Bunch: Happy Birthday, Maddox!

Maddox turned 3 today!

It was so much fun to help him celebate! Since Maddox loves to dress up, Corey and Heidi have planned costume parties the last two years, and we all join in the fun. It was almost cancelled when he was feeling a bit under the weather yesterday, but he rallied and the party was on!

This year, Maddox was Buzz Lightyear. Corey had to assemble the wings and add batteries for sound.

Almost done. He didn't want me to take a picture of the finished costume, and then he got tired of the whole costume thing and wanted to take it off. Oh well. I'll try again on Halloween.

Kyle just came as himself, and Corey was a basketball player. That's Princess Fiona (Grandma Michelle) in the background.

Jenna and Andy wore masks that Andy got in New Orleans - they're all set for Mardi Gras. We thought they should be going out on the town after the party, but they were just heading home to crash after all the party excitement :-).

Here's Corey in his mask. That's a full basketball on his head - pretty funny.

I was a dalmation and Chuck was a deer hunter. I think he should have been a fireman!

Grandpa Rob came as Shrek. I was busy cutting up fruit when everyone arrived so I missed all the photo ops of everyone else, but the costumes were awesome and Maddox had so much fun checking out all the characters!

Maddox got to talk to Phebe, although it was a pretty short conversation. The presents were calling his name!

He got some really cool gifts! We went with a car/truck theme this year and got him this city/road mat and some vehicles to go with it.

Kyle got him a video game system that has old-time games on it.

This Tonka fire truck was the only "noise toy" - gee, I wonder who got that one? Blame it on Grandpa Chuck!

It didn't take Corey long to hook up the video game system. I think Kyle and Corey were definitely more excited to see PacMan than Maddox! He figured out the joy-stick right away. Must be a guy thing....