Superhero Birthday Party

 You had a birthday shout hooray! Well we had two birthdays, so shout it twice!! In month of September Bubba turned five. Raia turned two in July, the week after I had surgery. So we kinda accidentally missed it. Well, we didin't really miss it. She did get to open her "Dance With Me Baby" doll, 

which she had wanted ever since she saw her cousin, Aarilyn's at Christmas last year. 

She was so happy to get it. She danced the rest of the night away. 

I had to put up a picture of our little dog Maddie, first. The kids love her so much and she is currently on vacation . . . .

I love doing special things for birthdays. I think it creates really important memories for my kiddos. I don't always get to go all out, but I really want them to have a special day where they feel extra loved and appreciated.

 For Bubba's birthday I made an ice cream cake. Super yummy and much more affordable than Dairy Queen. We covered it with whip cream for frosting.

 For Raia, it was red velvet with cream cheese frosting.

After seeing the stacks for the presents, Kelsey's dad, Quinn decide he need to start having big birthday parties too.:)

 The best part of the party was playing games with the friends.

 Look at Bubba's smile! In the picture above!!!We invited our close buddies and family for a  pool party so we only had one game but it was a big super awesome hit.

 It was an obstacle course for superhero training called "save the citizen" (like Sky High) It required you to crawl through tunnel, football step through some hula hoops, crawl under the "force field" table . . .

 Break through a "wall" and finally, save the citizen (which was that baby sitting on the green chair). Judging from the smiles on the kids' faces, I'd say breaking through the wall at the end was everyone's favorite part. We used Styrofoam cake squares to build it. It was really funny watching the bigger kids trying to crawl through the tunnel. It seemed a bit hard for them. Also, Quinn, decided he needed to throw balls at the bigger kids as they ran the course to see if they could dodge them.

There he goes . . . off through the tunnel!

 Just looking at these pictures again makes me remember how fun it was! Even Raia loved it! I am sure Maama was secretly wishing that she could do the training course herself, that is why she volunteered so quickly to help Raia!

 Here she is, saving the citizen! For awhile she sat in the chair and held the "citizen" captive on her lap.

This wall was such a big hit!I got the idea from my friend Jodi, who did something similar at her sons birthday party last year. I had such a hard time finding the Styrofoam cake forms!

The blue streamers were acting as the"force field". It was pretty powerful!!

 Priceless . . .

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 Raia went back again and again. I think she was excited that she was actually allowed to knock something down. The perfect way for the birthday girl to indulge her destructive behavior!

 This was a first for this technique . . .

 Here she is again . . . this time giving it a chest bump!

 Cambria destroying the wall daintily . . .

The birthday boy feeling like a real superhero. The whole time he couldn't decide if he would jump over the wall or bust through the wall . . . this gives us the answer!

 I think he feels like a hero!

We almost had one casualty, but she quickly recovered and saved the citizen!

Here are my lovely wall builder's (at this point my knee was still in really bad shape and I just couldn't get around very quickly.) Thanks to Kai and Ashley who rebuilt the wall time and time and time again!

Kiera, leaping over a building in a single bound.

Quinn, making this superhero duo work hard to get their save!! Don't worry . . . Good triumphed over evil!

The world is safe once again!

 Charlie didn't want to be enrolled in superhero training, he just wanted to practice for the rodeo!

 Our little pool that was perfect for the hot September night. I wanted to rent ut the rec center pool, but financially I had to be more realistic . . .

This is what the cake looked like all frosted. They never look quite like they do in my head . . .

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 Here are Raia's yummy cup cakes with two candles!

AS part of the decor, for Malachi I had a sign that said, "In the heart of every little boy beats the heart of a superhero." with Superman's emblem on it. For Raia, I had a hard time finding a quote that matched, but if I had to do it again, I would take a line from The Sound of Music,  "How do you keep a wave upon the sand?" or "How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?" 

Here's my boy, blowing out the candles . . .

 Sorry Grandma . . .it is what it is . . . blowing out the candles in her birthday suit. It is somewhat poetic in nature.

 After the party was over and the real birthday arrived, we celebrated the morning with super healthy birthday pancakes!

 Yummy! Love that toothless grin!

The end!

(until we celebrate in California with my fam, that is . . .except I don't have pictures of that because I forgot my camera, they are all on my mom's camera . . . I am going to have to make a phone call!