2 birthday parties, 1 day, EXHAUSTED

We may be a little crazy, okay a lot. But in the end We still feel that it was worth it. We decided to have 2 parties on the same day, 1 in the morning for Jace, 1 in the afternoon for Levi. We figured that for the most part is was about the same amount of work. We made the decorations interchangeable, rented a bounce house, made a bunch of cupcakes, a cake and a ton of frosting.

Jace wanted a Pirate Party so his invitations were a message in a bottle (forgot to take a picture of course, but they turned out super cute). I found pirate costumes for $1.00 at littletikes.com (1.50 with shipping) figured I couldn't put together a treat bag for that price.

Invited about 16 kids (not all were able to make it). Some kids weren't too thrilled about dressing up as they are a little shy. We even had cousins that were able to come down from Garden City to be here.

Levi showing his sword skills. I decided to do cupcakes for Jace's party, that was probably the way to go and should have done the same for Levi's party. Oh well, live and learn.

   

Levi wanted a transformer birthday and it was very important that there be a transformer on his cake, thus, I made a cake instead of cupcakes. The invitations were a shirt that had a silver autobot symbol on the front and a black decepticon symbol on the back (again cheaper than a goodie bag) The invitation read:

Are You an Autobot or a decepticon?

Choose your side and join us for the ultimate Battle to celebrate Levi’s 5^th Birthday

Yes, in this picture there are 23 kids (and a few weren't able to come), and a couple had already left to go home. This was definitely the more lively of the 2 parties as they are a little older and had a blast on the bounce house/slide.

Of note, Levi received 13 transformers and has be busy ever since. We grabbed a couple to the side in order to space the transformer mania out. This Friday is Levi's actual birthday and Rick has 2 more transformers for him and his Grandma Cook has another one. So it looks like we'll be getting a bigger bucket to keep them in.

All in all it was a super fun day, we even had pizza for all the cousins (who came to both parties) aunts and uncle for lunch in between the 2 parties. We tried to have some "quiet time" as well but the kids wanted to get back to the bounce house as soon as possible. My sis-in-law was able to get her younger ones down but the rest were too excited to be with each other and play.

But by the end of the day, Rick and I were EXHAUSTED. At 8:00 the boys had crashed with very little of the bedtime stalling. I felt like it was after midnight and I had been out partying (oh, the college days), boy, we're getting old.