Birthday

Noah Has A Mario Party – Mario Party Sandwiches, Treat Boxes and More!

April 2, 2012

It’s a Mario Party!

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My son told us a few months ago that he wanted to have a camping birthday party.

This made us a bit nervous because his birthday is in late March! It had rained on all previous 4 birthdays and we didn’t want to chance an outdoor party for his big FIVE year old birthday party (for the record, it was the most gorgeous day EVER).

A few weeks before the big day, he changed his mind and decided he wanted to have a Mario Party! Probably because we had recently purchased Mario Party 9 and all we did for several days was challenge each other to mini game after mini game!

Mario seemed much more doable, so we called a local gym and decided to go the “pay other people to set up and clean up” route.

All that was left for us was the decor, food and the party favors!

Thanks to Pinterest, we pulled it off and I think we did a pretty good job!

Noah’s Mario Party

Star PBJ’s with raisin eyes: Inspiration from here

Boo Balloons and Yoshi Eggs – Inspiration from here

Party favor boxes filled with golden coins and mustache lollipops

Mario Backpack courtesy of our local mall

Cousins having fun during the “pre-party”

My husband earned points through Club Nintendo and bought some posters

Gotta stretch first! (There were a LOT of other kids, but we’re just showing family in these pics)

They loved the trampoline!

I love this picture of my nephew!

*Right* after this jump, we decided we might want to take his glasses off

This slide was HUGE!

Check this out!

Hugs to grandma!

Lizzie befriended a coach there and had some help through the big blow up obstacle course!

There are SO many other awesome pictures, but since I don’t have permission from all the parents, these are the only I can show. We had so much fun and most of his class and our family showed up.

I think it was the best Mario Party ever!

Do you prefer to have parties at your home or outside your home? (parties at home STRESS me out!)

Happy Birthday To My Sweet Boy (Cake Batter Pancakes Recipe)

March 26, 2012

My sweet boy is FIVE years old today!

Wow, when did that happen?!

It really seems like just yesterday when he looked like this:

Now all of a sudden, he looks like this:

Time just goes too fast when you have kids. You blink and they grow a foot.

This morning I woke up extra early.

My son requested Cake Batter Pancakes (I made them for my daughter’s birthday. Recipe here on my other site.), and I was happy to oblige.

I finished the pancakes pretty early, so I went to sit outside the kid’s room with the camera. We had my son’s birthday present (A Leapster that we bought for super cheap on Amazon!) sitting outside the door all loaded and ready to go. My husband couldn’t be here this morning (he had to go into work), so I wanted to be sure to capture his reaction on camera!

I waited and waited and finally I went in and woke up my daughter. I told HER to wake up my son and tell him there was a present in the hall! I barely got back into position before he came ripping out of the room excited. He’s FIVE!

Pancakes were good, but largely ignored.