Cayden's 5th birthday...Superhero style

 

 

Last weekend was Cayden's 5th birthday...sigh!!! His first "friend" birthday...sigh!!!He was so excited for his birthday! And I was totally devestated that he is now a whole hand old!

 His "real" birthday was on Tuesday, November 6th, but Cody was not home from working out of town so we did not celebrate until that Saturday. He woke up on Saturday and informed me that his real birthday was today. LOL. I guess you don't officially have a birthday unless you have friends and presents.

The party was only 1.5 hours, but totally long enough for a bunch of 5 & 6 year boys. I was really hoping for a nice warm day and getting a bounce house. Then I was really hoping for even a 50 degree day and a bounce house. Still no such luck, so I scrambled for in- house things to do with the boys.

I found out that it does not take much for boys to get excited about anything!

When they first got to the house each of them got their very own superhero cape with their own initial on it (thanks to my wonderful mom who can sew like nobody else!) and then they decorated their own superhero cuffs (made out of toilet paper rolls).

Once they were equipped with their superhero get ups they were ready to fight off the bad guys! We went out into the garage and sprayed the bad guys with silly string. They LOVED it! I love the expressions on everybody faces. They were so excited (note to self...by tons of silly string for any party)!


















Once the bad guys were defeated we were ready for some pinata fun! Yes, I made the pinata and it is not one to brag about, but I did it in a few days time and the kids still had a great time batting that thing open!

 

 

 

Once all the candy was collected, we went back inside to open presents and have cake and ice cream.

Cayden had a great time and I think 4 other little boys did too!

Cailey's 6th birthday...Candyland Style

This years birthday day theme....Candyland.  Let me just tell you that I love throwing theme parties. I especially love throwing these parties for little girls. Face it, girls get into parties way more than boys do!

Cailey loves to play candyland and what kids does not like oobers and goober of CANDY???What a day we had planned out!

We first hand delivered the giant lollipop invites to 10 very special little girls....

Then the planning started!

I knew I wanted to have a life size game board (Now this party could have gotten really expensive or stayed very easy. I chose to stay on the cheaper, easier side). For each character spot the girls had to do an activity.  We had 10 girls and divided them up into two groups with one large dice. A little easier to manage.

One stop was the candy necklace making station. Each girl got to make there very own candy necklace to wear eat during the party.

Another stop was an ice cream cone game. Each girl had to race against each other to stack as many ice cream scoops possible before the time ran out.

Next stop, decorate sugar cookies with some yummy pink frosting and fun pink sprinkles.

Last stop was the pinata, but all the girls had to wait until everybody made it through the game board.

Of course you can't have a birthday party without presents (and one little brother who can't stand not being away from all the excitement)!

And a candyland birthday cake.  A few girls did not want any cake until they saw the surprise inside...

cake idea found on pinterest

I had my wonderful mom, mother-in-law, sister-in-law, and niece there to help at all the stations so I was free to roam and take pictures.

I had a super fun time planning this party and I do believe all the little girls (and one brother) had a super fun time!

Cailey is turning 6

My sweet baby girl will be 6 tomorrow. SIX YEARS OLD! How did that happen. It just seems like yesterday I was a new mom and totally psycho about everything and anything that had to deal with her. I would lug around a huge diaper bag which had had every necessity to man kind and soaked up every little noise or whipper she made.

Then Cayden came around and we were all thrown into a mass chaotic world! Time never seemed to slow down afterwards. If he was sleeping I was trying to play with Cailey. If she was sleeping then we were all hopefully sleeping too!

Preschool started before I knew it and she was all of sudden this little girl that is learning stuff from somebody else and making friends that I had no influence over.

Preschool ends in two short years and now she is in kindergarten. KINDERGARTEN = big school. The school mommy teaches at, the school where 5th graders go to! Yikes. Now she is learning stuff from another new teacher and 500 other students. Making new friends, which once again, I have no influence over.

She is doing great. I am so proud of her everyday. I am excited for all the little accomplishments she is making. Counting to 100, creating a science experiment, clogging and performing in front of a crowd, girl scouts, swimming (actually holding her breath and swimming), earning blue ribbons at the fair, and many other little things.

She is very excited for turning 6...she has 2 loose teeth! Which is very scary and exciting for her. She will get to start 1st grade next year and be able to stay all day at school and ride the bus home every afternoon! Along with staying at school all day she will get to eat lunch in the lunchroom!

For me, turning 6 is just one more step growing up away from me :( I know is still have some time left, but I just hate every year that goes by. I miss shopping the toddler section and all the little things that go along with a little girl.

Happy Birthday baby girl....I love you!!!!

Now onto planning a Candyland birthday, with tons of colors and candy. Going to be a super fun special day!