Lohns Birthday

How do you like to spend your 36th birthday???

Lohn likes to wake up to Biscuits and gravy, and orange juice.

And then play all day with those he loves most. 

Water ballon/capture the flag

Gunnar steals the flag!

Sylas is ticked he lost.

Then we went to go see Tamsyn's art that was displayed at the High School. Cool, huh? It will have a permanent place on my mantle.

Tamsyn made these for her Daddy. And even branded the biggest/ best for him.

Then we went to the school to play ball. 

Gunnar and Sylas played too. But their attention span is a wee bit shorter.

Time to open presents!

Bonsai!

I love Lohn's face.

I love Anders face too. He was so happy to make his dad happy. 

 This is Gunnar's art work, printed onto a T-shirt. 

 Sylas saw this bag of Twizzlers and threw them in the shopping cart stating "Dad would like these for his birthday." and walked on. I stopped, looked at the licorice, and thought "Yes, he would" I helped Sylas wrap it, and that was his gift to his Daddy.

This captures the craziness behinds the scenes. 

 After Steak, stuffed mushrooms, grilled asparagus, and mashed potatoes, we ate birthday pie while we watched The Life of Pi. Pie/pi. Follow?

I love my honey! He is such a great dad and an awesome husband. Also he buys me nice things. 

Like this.

Isn't he the BEST!!!

Minecraft Party! (Ander turns 9!)

Ander (my minecraft nut) declared that he wanted a Minecraft theme for his birthday party. I have never, nor will I ever, play this game, so this came quite as challenge for me. Thanks to Pinterest (and to a Minecraft nutty husband and kids) we were able to pull it off.

 For the goody bags, I found these green bags at Michaels 2 for .75. Lohn used a permanent marker for the face.

 We filled the bags with TNT

Creeper Juice

And Diamonds and Gold and Iron. (I also used these as prizes for those who won the games)

For our landscape, the brownies with green frosting was the dirt and grass, rice crispy treats was snow, brown crispy treats was gravel, and the blue jello was water. We had 14 kids at the party. I will give you one guess what it looked like afterward...

I saved soda bottles for a bowling game. The orange is lava, blue is diamond, green are creepers, black is the skeleton, and dark green was the spider. My boys put some gravel in the bottom of each so they were somewhat steady.

We used a baseball as a bowling ball. A point system was used. One point for each pin knocked over, except for the diamond pin (which was in the back middle) was worth 5 points. 

Tamsyn made this game up all by her self. 

Once again, we used gold, diamonds and iron as rewards for getting the face on the posterboard.

We made some of these. This was the calmest the boys were the whole time.

We played dodge ball and freeze tag in the backyard (green balls were creepers, orange was hot lava)

And we played balloon games. That was pretty much just chaos.

 This picture was taken just as one kid smacked the camera with his balloon. 

Ander got some awesome presents (notice how hot and sweaty the boys are. It was HOT here today)

And that was our minecraft party. It lasted only 2 hours, but I was wiped out for 4 afterwards, haha! 

Ander's party at home was much more calm.

I sure love my little not so little guy. He is such a joy, and I LOVE being his mom.