Kade’s Birthday Party

So today Kade had a birthday party with mostly friends from school. One of his friends from church was able to make it too. He had lots of fun but I don’t think we will have a birthday party at our house again. It’s crazy with that many 5-6 year olds running around! I thought my games would take up lots of time and that I had everything planned out perfect….Nope we were done and then the kids wanted to jump on the trampoline and I was afraid someone was going to end up hurt. All in all it was fun but next time he has a birthday party it will definitely not be at our house. I do have to say that I had a lot of fun planning it all!

Here’s the invitation I did. I just scanned a flat Lego building surface and used a digital scrapbooking program to add in all the elements and pictures.

This is subway art I made. I have it framed in my “subway art” frame that I change out for each holiday.

It has his entire name i just blacked out the rest of his name for privacy issues. Who knows I could have his entire name somewhere on this blog but it just seemed safer…

I was at the Lego store and found this ice cube mold for $7.99.  I ended up making chocolates and crayons with it.

To make the crayons I just melted the crayons in a microwave safe bowl or one you could just toss when you are done would work great. I kept melting and stirring. Then I just poured it into the mold and let it cool. I put it in the fridge to speed up the process. Here are pictures of my test batch. I ended up doing Blue, Green, Red and Yellow and put them in the treat bags for all the guests.

For the chocolates I did the same thing.

 

 

For the piñata I just used a shoebox and wrapped it in tissue paper and used the cardboard from the paper towel roll. Super simple and cheap! 

    

We played a Lego version of pin the tail on the donkey where they had to pin the circle on the Lego. I just got a big poster board and drew 6 circles and then cut out circles for the kids to try and stick to the circles blindfolded. (this was their favorite game and probably the cheapest game!

We ended up playing this one a couple times!

I also made my own BINGO game. I found a bunch of different Lego pictures and made 8 different BINGO boards. Then I printed off the pictures so that they were bigger and put them on colored paper. I laid them out face down and let each of them pick a card. Then they put a marshmallow on  the corresponding picture on their bingo board.

I just bought cupcakes (less work for me) at Sam’s club and then I made Lego chocolates to put on top.

  

                    

For the treat bags I just bought a package of primary colored small gift bags at Michaels and then filled them with the Lego crayons I made, a pencil, a sticky hand thing that Kade just had to get, their piñata candy, bubbles, and this cool Lego kit that comes with 8 little Lego sets that are great for parties!

I got lots of ideas from other blogs for this party and used different ideas from each blog.

Here are the links I used.

http://yellowfence.blogspot.com/search/label/Lego%20Party

http://rootsandwingsco.blogspot.com/2010/02/lego-agents-secret-agents-party-part-2.html (I didn’t really use anything from this one but loved the marshmallow shooter idea!

http://go.tipjunkie.com/pa/320/modernmomentsdesigns.com/2010/12/23/lego-birthday-party-actual-party/ (this one was my favorite. I really wanted to buy the Lego head organizer that she used as a center piece, but didn’t really want to spend the money)

I tried making these but Kade wanted to use JUMBO (they are bigger than the large) marshmallows and so they didn’t turn out as well and the edible ink I purchased did not write on my chocolate. So I didn’t end up even putting them out. http://www.livinglocurto.com/2010/06/lego-cake-pops/

Bird Nest Easter Treats!

I totally stole this recipe from someone else’s blog and now I can’t find it. It was somewhere on TipJunkie.com though. d I accidentally put my own twist on it. This is what you do: melt butterscotch morsels or in my case peanut butter and chocolate chip morsels (found them at Wal-Mart)  then mixed in the chow mien noodles (I think that’s what they are called) I always called them Chinese noodles growing up. Then put  blobs of them on wax paper, or if you ran out of wax paper and didn’t realize it like I did then you can use saran wrap, it works great too! Then you place some sort of candy egg in the middle. I accidentally bought the bigger eggs instead of the mini ones so I could only put one egg in mine. They are yummy!

When I googled it to find where I got it from I found an even better recipe (well it looks better, I haven’t tried it yet. But I plan to for Easter). Click here for that recipe.

Happy 6th Birthday Kade!

The night before Kade’s birthday I was telling Ryan how cool it would be to relive our memories. I would love to go back in time and relive the birth of Kade. I actually like giving birth. Of course I get an epidural and maybe that is why it isn’t much of a painful experience well at least the birthing part not after.

Kade was telling me something yesterday that was dangerous and I told him eh couldn’t do it because I didn’t want to lose another baby! He told me, “Mom, I am not a baby!” I told him that he will always be my baby. So this morning when it was time to go to school he said, “Mom you have to take me to school because I’m your baby!”

All the fun started Saturday. Due to our work schedules the only way to have Kade’s birthday present set up was to do it Saturday. So we put together his Trampoline!

 

There is a net and pad and everything but as soon as the mat was down Kade was on it! He begged to open more presents since Grandma and Grandpas came in the mail that day. So we let him pick one present. He picked a box that looked like they might be light up Sketchers….they weren’t but they were some awesome shoes!

   

I let him decide whether or not to go to school the next day. I had planned on the babysitter coming because I had to work Monday night but ended up getting super sick on Monday night and had to miss work. I am glad it left by morning and that so far none of the kids got it, I was pretty miserable! So anyhow since he wasn’t going to school and Ryan had to work early that morning we let him open a present that he could play the next day. He opened another present from Grandma and Grandpa Williams…

     

Had to have a cool outfit to wear on his birthday. It ended up getting dirty halfway through the day of his birthday so I had him open up the rest of the present from us, clothes!

  He looks so proud of his underwear!

 

We went to many stores looking for the light up Sketchers that he was using birthday money from Grandma and Grandpa John and Aunts and Uncles to buy them with. I finally found them at a store near Ryan’s work. So he picked them up for us on his way to meet us at the mall so Kade could to their free Lego build and pick out his birthday present from our friends the Dunn’s. They left him a gift card at the Lego store to buy something of his choice. He had a hard time deciding what he wanted! I will have to post a picture of the new Sketcher shoes soon! He LOVE them!

Then we met up with the Dunn’s and Burningham’s at Red Robin for dinner. It was crazy but it was nice to see everyone and Kade was happy to see his friends! The Burningham’s gave Kade Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie (which is his favorite as of late) and a Cars book that is for beginner readers. He walks around quoting it and even wants to do his hair like the wimpy kid!

    SaraJane, Landon, Kade and Sumner. Kade was playing his DS.

Kade, Landon and his girlfriend SaraJane!

Happy Birthday to my first baby! We love you so much Kade. You are becoming a great big brother and we are proud of you! XOXOXO!

Love Mom and Dad