Alex's 5th Birthday Party

Alex started talking about his 5th birthday in oh...must have been January. He was so excited about it. I think the plans changed a few times also.

I think he started talking about a Transformers party but then it quickly turned into a Super Mario Brothers party since he's become a Wii/DS addict.

All of his classmates have been having birthday parties where the whole class in invited. I asked him who he wanted to have come to his birthday party. His response...the whole class. Oh boy. I asked him if he wanted the party at the Lego place in Thumb plaza...you know....mess up someone's elses place. Nope, he wanted it at our house. Oh boy.

So who am I to disappoint a 5 year old? I can remember my 5th or 6th birthday. My mom had my class over in our basement. We sat at a big long table and I remember playing the drop the clothes pin in the jar. How fun was that?

Well, since I had to invite 15 kids plus his other buddies Joey, Matthew, and Gavyn, we decided it would be best to get a bounce house. I love those. Great entertainment and tires them out.

Now for the cake. Kirk and his brother have this unspoken competition on who can make the coolest cake. I'm pretty sure Kevin does the whole thing by himself. I stayed up well past 2am for 3 nights baking cakes and making frosting and fondant. Thank goodness Missy let me use her kitchenaid. So Kirk designed the cake layout and the night before the party we put it all together. And yes, we were up until 2 am.

The afternoon weather turned out okay, it rained just a bit but no big deal. All together, there were about 23 kids. Elizabeth's friends had to come also because they are all Super Mario freaks. Alex had a lot of fun.