Colyer World

Max celebrated his 5th Birthday at SilverCreek Sportsplex in San Jose today

Peeking out from his balloons as he impatiently waits for his guests to arrive

His buddy, Brennan, was the first guest to arrive!

Sweet Christian has been a friend since Max was 4 months old.  They met in “Music Together” class at Los Gatos Rec.

Will, Brennan & Max take a quick rest before bouncing again on the inflatables

Wallace laying in the middle of the bounce house getting pummeled with balls by wild children

I think he is calling for a truce, but nobody is listening!   

An attempt to get a group BD shot of all the kids

Lining up ready to enter the party room for pizza & cupcakes

Max blowing out his candles

Family Photo in the party room:  Emily, Mommy, Max & Daddy

Will & Max after devouring a yummy cupcake

Happy 5th Birthday, Max!

Wallace wheeling out the presents, Max & Emily to the car

Max opening “Slinky Dog” from Alex & Josh

Slinky Dog was a real hit!

Happy Birthday Max!

We celebrated Emily’s 3rd BD yesterday with friends & family

The main event for Emily’s 3rd BD was “Happy Birds”, a performing parrot show

Seven beautiful & friendly parrots entertained us all and Emily even got a kiss from pretty “Piper”

This particular bird is a trainee to the show.  Emily is feeding him an almond.

The bird show consisted of various birds riding a bike, riding a scooter, singing songs, making other animal impersonations, skateboarding, opening water bottles, etc.

Max was an active participant in the audience with lots of questions for the “Bird Lady”.  He loved it!

Piper wants to give Max a kiss,

but Max holds back …

Piper gives Max a kiss on his cheek

Piper riding a scooter

Max and his friend, Cameron, intently watching the bird show

Sean & Zack

Zac & Megan

Zac & Cameron

Zac & Max

Alex & Zac

Brennan & Zac

Riley & Forrest

Papa Dave, Brynn & Kedryn with Zac & Forrest

Kedryn (my nephew) & Zac

Brynn (my niece) & Forrest

Papa Dave, Brynn & Kedryn with Zac & Forrest

Forrest & Christian (Kathy had to bribe Christian to get near this bird!)

Michael, Kathy & Olivia with Zac & Forrest

Brynn flaunts her muscles by holding these two fairly heavy macaws

Sweet Samantha with Zac & Forrest

Max & beautiful Forrest

Max was totally enthused by the birds

Cute Keddie with Forrest

Emily with Forrest

Emily enjoyed watching & participating in the bird show

Emily & her friend, Megan, with Forrest

Ready to blow out her candles.  Notice the pretty red fingernails!  Brynn gave her a manicure before her party!

Princess Emily

Happy 3rd Birthday Emily!!

We went to Round Table Pizza this afternoon and celebrated Liam’s 1st Birthday!

Emily enjoyed pepperoni pizza & an apple/cinnamon pizza before a piece of chocolate cake!

Happy 1st Birthday Liam!  (Cake compliments of Liam’s grandma)

Sweet Liam Smile

Brennan & Max staring at the chocolate cake

Max belting out “Happy Birthday”.  Brennan still staring at the BD cake.

Max still belting out “Happy Birthday” as Brennan continues to be mesmerized by the chocolate …

Cameron, Brennan, Max & Christian posing for a picture before they receive their chocolate cake!

Random boys lookin’ cute! 

We went to “Hidden Villa” yesterday afternoon for a Barnyard Baby Animal program for preschoolers with some of Max’s friends, Christian, Brennan & Cameron.

“Hidden Villa” is an organic farm located in Los Altos Hills. It’s a non-profit educational organization. Heifer International Learning Center is also present at Hidden Villa and provides educational programs that promote sustainable solutions to global hunger, poverty and environmental degradation. Please check out www.hiddenvilla.org for more information.

Maggie, our tour guide, shows Max and the other kids how to careful touch an egg softly with just one finger

Max was very excited to touch the eggSweet Lamb (only 2 weeks old)Another adorable lamb! This one really stole my heart!Max gently touched the lambThe mama was baa’ing away wanting the lamb to return to herMax & Emily give Emma some loving! This lamb was pretty funny! She loved to be scratched, petted, touched!! She would push her way into the kids, adults, whoever just for a scratch. What a lovely sheep!This is ClydeI don’t know this piggy’s name, but he was stinkin’ cute!!! LOVED HIM! Kids weren’t allowed to pet the baby piglets ’cause they have sharp teeth and could accidently biteMax & Brennan feeding the chickens cornMax enjoyed this!BIG PIG! The kids were allowed to touch the pig’s snout!Cute pig drinking water … didn’t know that they are the only farm animal that doesn’t drink water out of a trough.Max & Brennan’s baby brother, Liam, have developed a mutually fond relationshipBaby Liam loves Max! Max asks about a “Baby Brother” every time we see Liam.It was a wonderful afternoon at Hidden Villa. I would highly recommend to the locals.

Mad Max

He’s got a sweet smile, but you’d better watch out!

Bracing for the BUMP!

Crazy Christian

A calm, cool & collected driver

however, he can get a little rowdy when necessary.

Last, but not least …

Bad Boy Brennan

May look posed here, but totally outta control out on the course!

Today was Max’s BD proper. He is officially 4 years old!

Max asked me several times for a chocolate ice cream “Ice Age” cake so here it is!

He loved it and wanted to make sure that everyone knew that all the animals on the cake were HIS!

We just had a small get together for pizza & cake this evening with his close buddies: Brennan, Cameron & Christian.

Brennan enjoying the cake!!!