Monday, June 8, 2009

May = Birthday, Birthday, Birthday!

The month started with Matt's birthday. He is now 41. The kids all got him presents and we had a party at home. Later Matt and I went to see the new Star Trek on the IMAX. It was so awesome. The sound was great, the effects were fantastic and the story was so fun. I really liked it, even if there were no Tribbles. Here is the whole goofy family. Happy Birthday Dad!

For Alyssa's 11th birthday party we had a survivor party. We had a bunch of girls who were braver and tougher than I thought. She had a blast and hopefully all her friends did too. Although 1 friend did cry when we had the bizarre food contest, oops. We ate real food (pizza) and lots of gross food too, like kitty litter box treats, gummy worms, scorpion eggs (soy nuts), chocolate covered beetles (raisins) and the best, SARDINES! 4 girls actually ate the sardines and cute little Shaye actually liked them. CRAZY.


We had 2 teams and lots of games for the competition. The teams wore either yellow or turquoise bandanas. The teams were the Super Stars vs. the Blue Sharks. They each made a poster for their teams and we kept score. Each time a team won they would get beads to put on their immunity necklace (the losers got 1/2 the amount of beads). By the end all the kids had lots of beads for the necklaces. They turned out cute!



One of the favorite games was finding the gum ball under the whipped cream. I put 1 gumball and about 8 whoppers on a plate and covered them with whipped cream. The first kid to find the gum ball and blow a bubble won! Alyssa really went for it! (She came in 3rd).


We had a survivor island birthday cake for all those who outwitted, outlasted and outplayed.


Here is the welcome sign for Alyssa's birthday bash. We all survived the survivor party!


Jordan's birthday was next. She turned 8, how is my little girl so big? She had an "UP" party. We invited a bunch of friends to see the movie, then came back to the house for cake, ice cream and presents. Fun and easy = my kind of party :) Each kid picked a balloon to take home and we had bags of treats at the movies. I think we had plenty of sugar for the day.



I tried to make the cake look like the movie poster. See the house floating away under the gumball balloons? I know, not quite the same, but still yummy!



She got some really cool walkie talkies. They will be fun all summer long! Alyssa made Jordan a special 8th birthday poster. Jordan loved the poster and the candy only lasted about 24 hours. Good job Alyssa, what a sweet sister you are!




















2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Such cute parties. I needed those ideas for Lexi's b-day party.:)

Samantha said...

wow! tree b-days in a row! Happy b-day to them! it sounded as if they each had great good partys!! i hope they had a ton of fun!!