there's a party in my tummy!

for the first time ever, i held a birthday party NOT on my child's actual birth date. jenn and don are leaving for vacation tomorrow morning and jessica and justin are headed back out on tour tomorrow evening, so since everyone was actually here today, we decided this would be the best day for talan's 3rd birthday.
i didn't have near the anxiety over it then i thought i would, although i tried all day to let him know that this was just his PARTY and TOMORROW is his actual birthday.
this year we decided to have a yo gabba gabba themed birthday party. i had the cake all planned out and figured it really wouldn't even be that hard, especially considering i just did a fondant birthday cake for hayden the other month. well, this turned out to be the first caketastrophe that i've had. i built them as 3 separate cakes and as it got closer to the party i took them downstairs and stacked them. it was leaning quite a bit and we tried to fix that. when i came back downstairs a bit later, i saw that it was really leaning and the 2 lower layers were totally cracking. so i ran upstairs to grab some plates and figured i'd try to save them and just have them as 3 individual cakes. while i was upstairs, dave yells up "no need to hurry, i just caught brobee's head as it fell." and then it turned into trying to make the cake look somewhat presentable before people arrived.
brobee's head was pretty much a lost cause, so we turned the 2 other cakes around so nobody could see the huge chunks of cake missing, moved the eyes to the "new front" of the cakes and tried refrosting whatever i could to make it look somewhat normal. it didn't turn out too badly considering what had just happened! i had to figure one of these years something horrible would happen to one of the cakes!
talan didn't seem to really mind though and that's what really matters...right?!
we had a full house this year....the entire kellogg side was able to make it which i don't think has ever happened for one of our birthdays. dave's parents, his brother daniel and nephew malcolm also made it. and we also had melanie, ashton and lorelei howard as well as nancy, isaac and 1 week old asher gregg come.
talan got lot's of cool gifts like puzzles, a yo gabba gabba laptop, toy story toys, batman toys, legos, movies, an amp and a microphone with a stand, and tons of other great gifts.
he, of course, LOVED his new microphone and amp...i think all he needs now is a real guitar to complete his rock band set up downstairs.
talan seemed to have a great time at his party and now we're deciding on what fun thing we should do with him for his actual birthday. i have some ideas so we'll see what we can make happen.

the cake before the fall (brobee, plex and muno):

the set up:





the cake after the fall:
brobee's remains after the fall:
hayden showing off the food in his mouth and talan making malcolm eat some chips:
ashton, hayden and rainah at the coloring table:
melanie and lorelei:

present time!:










when talan opened the batcave, hayden jumped up and yelled "i've always wanted this!:

justin helping talan set up his new microphone and amp:



he had to steal someone's iphone so he could sing along to fireflight:
the batcave was a huge hit amongst the party goers:

talan, still singing:

malcolm:
asher and nancy: