Okay, time to take a break from work and have a little fun. The real fun was a few weeks ago when we celebrated my son Cooper’s third birthday. We couldn’t decide where to have the party this year since it is always an issue with December parties. Coop is not that big on those bounce places and everywhere else just seems so expensive. But it is hard hosting and entertaining at home during the winter too. What to do? Well, after a large box of canvas prints arrived one day, I left the box out for the boys to play in while I went on a shoot. Marcia said the boys played in the box for hours. That gave her an idea and we ran with it. A box party! What kid doesn’t love to play in boxes? So I set out across town collecting appliance boxes at several of the home improvement stores around town.  5 refridgerator boxes, 5 washer boxes and a number of TV boxes and a roll of duct tape later, our garage had turned into one heck of a cardboard fort. Needless to say, the kids loved it, as well as most of the dads that attended the party. I was sure we had lost the garage to the kids for good.  Kudos to my mother and brother-in-laws for the help in the construction of the fort. The party was a perfect. The actual theme was Buzz Lightyear and Woody the Cowboy, Cooper’s favorite characters right now. The cake was modeled after Andy’s bed from the Toy Story movies, and was made by our friend Jason Yarbrough. We just can’t beleive our little Cooper is already three! Where does time go. Since I had a bunch of photos to show off again, I went with the collage method again. But first, here is our little Coop, out playing in the snow before his party started.

Cooper’s Box Town

Party fun.

Thankfully we have boys, and as much fun as they had playing in the boxes that weekend, like all boys, they have a knack for destruction. So once we told them it was time for the box fort to come down, they didn’t complain one bit, and jumped right in to help knock it all down. Gotta love em!

Well, thanks for letting me show off my family fun. I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and make lots of family memories of your own this holiday season. I thank all of my clients for letting me into your lives to help preserve your memories throughout the year, and I look forward to catching up with you again in 2010. Merry Christmas from the J. Davis Photography family!!!

Tags: Children, Knoxville, Photography, Tennessee

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