Birthday Festivities

For Carson's and Caleb's birthdays, we did a couple of fun things.

Last weekend we had a joint birthday party at our house. Unfortunately, I guess we were so busy having fun that we forgot to take any pictures. At all. Lame-(with a big fat) O!

But we did have a good time. We got out the arcade basketball and set it up in the garage. Caleb is actually pretty good at it--which amazes us that he can actually throw the ball that far!! We had karaoke in our living room. The Dial Speedway Concessions in the kitchen. In another room we had a projector going showing Cars (the movie), Thomas the Ride on Train and track set up in another room, and another room with video games.

We also turned the backyard into the road Lightning McQueen fixed. We took a black roll of table covering and rolled it out covering the yard. Then we used crepe paper to make a double yellow stripe down the middle. It looked cool to start out. But by the end of the party, the wind and little feet kind of got the best of it. Anyway--we had 7 or 8 carnival games set up out there with prizes and fun and made the kids stuff their own goody bags this year. :) We made all the carnival games Cars themed. So there was an inflatable Mater tool toss where you toss tools in his mouth, the ring toss was to throw rings onto orange cones, throw bean bags into tires...you get the idea.

So I've heard a lot of comments the last four years about why all the effort for such young kids. But you know what? We just like to celebrate. And really, I think we should plan a party as a family every month. Our family worked on everything together and it was so fun! For example, Chris and Caleb and I worked on the yard, while Carson closely supervised:



Every game, food item, the decorations, cleaning etc. Caleb helped us with. It was so fun to have a project that we could all work towards and work together on! Caleb even helped with the cupcakes and cake:

Not the fanciest cake ever, but hey, Caleb could recognize it :) and was excited about it...so that's what matters, right? :)

So the bottom line... Caleb was straight up giddy to help with all the preparations and about having his friends over. And that my friends, makes it worth it right there!

Anyway, we had a great time and the boys were spoiled rotten, just as kids should be on their birthdays, I believe. :)

This weekend we also did our annual birthday trip to Chuck E Cheese. A good time had by all.

Carson loves doing the slides (here and at the park) by himself:






I wish this kid's parents would teach him not to put his foot on the table. How rude.

Actually...I'm pretty sure this is hereditary. Chris always likes to tease me because I like to put my foot up on everything...like in the car...or wherever. But so do the boys. We have a lot of pictures of them with one foot up, just chillin' like their mom. So proud.

We had a great time celebrating the birthdays of these two sweet and fun boys! Can't wait for next year's festivities! :)