Yesterday was a crazy day! We started the day (kind of) with Kaden's first soccer game (at noon, which is why the "kind of"). It was supposed to be his second, but the first one got rained out.
Kaden had his first "friends only" birthday party. I wasn't horribly stressed until I saw that the park we were planning on being at was reserved. Luckily we have a ton of parks close to our house, so I quickly found one that wasn't reserved and was basically empty. My sister, brother-in-law, my brother, and sister-in-law helped SO much with decorating and letting everyone coming know the change of plans. I wouldn't have been able to do this without them. Especially since Shane had to stay home with a very sick Lexi.
It was a Hulk party, which is why there are touches of purple here and there.
(Hulk's shorts are purple.)
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| It was SO windy! |
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| Cute baby Jared! |
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| My sister-in-law, Angela, and her baby, Dewey. |
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| Almost all of the kids. There were 15, but that was much better than the 22 I had thought were coming! |
The game with the balloons was basically to see who could "HULK SMASH!" their balloon the fastest. I think the sharp blades of grass helped more than a few kids. ;)
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| They decorated their own cupcakes with Hulk faces. |
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| Birthday boy! |
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| Hayden (school friend) with his cupcake. |
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| Ari and Ryley with their cupcakes. |
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| Graysen! |
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| Present time! |
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| Ryley was so, so tired. |
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| (All of my helpers in the background here.) |
Time for the pinata!
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| Serenity |
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| Ryley |
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| Ari (look at her expression - cracks me up) |
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| Graysen |
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| Kaden |
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| Chase (school friend) |
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| Logan (our resident baseball player) |
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| Hayden |
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| Jackson (another school friend) |
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| Harrison |
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| McKayla |
After we got through all the kids, the pinata was barely dented. I let Kaden have another few tries before turning it back over to the baseball player again.
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| Logan's turn again! |
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Logan got the hole big enough that candy started to fall, so I just dumped the rest out. The kids were SO happy and the parents probably hated me for giving their kids whistles and TONS of sugar and sending them home. Kaden said he had so much fun and that it was a great party!
Phew! 15 is still a lot but 22 would have been crazy. Tell Kaden happy birthday from us and that his party looked awesome. We wish we could have been there.
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