Camden's Birthday Parties!

Well we had a crazy busy week last week with more things going on than I was really prepared for, but overall I think that Camden's birthday was a success! On the night of his birthday we invited all of the family over for pizza, cake and ice cream. Camden had requested a monster truck birthday cake so I did my best to be creative. Good thing you can just buy monster trucks and stick them on top---not to much creativity required....and he thought it was pretty cool!I tried to get pictures of everyone that came. It was all the Parson clan minus my dad and Holly (we missed you guys) and Darin's mom represented the Chase clan. Too bad more of Darin's family doesn't live closer it would have been fun to have them there as well!
This is my Grandma, Mom and niece Gabrielle.

And here is my brother Charley(he loves to smile for the camera---by the way he is doing the hook'em symbol for the Texas Longhorns....Camden loves it!) and nephew Max. He had just come from a Lacrosse game!

It was a fun night. Camden tells everyone he was "spoiled" which he was. This is a fun time of year for birthday's because you can get fun summer stuff! I still can't believe my baby is already 5!

We told Camden that he could have a friend party this year as well. He was pretty excited about it! We have loads of little boys in our neighborhood so we had lots of little bodies to invite. I wasn't really thinking how busy the weekend was going to be....we had Myah's blessing the next day, so it was kind of a quick low key birthday party but I think the kids all had fun. In the past I have asked my boys what kind of party they would like and then would hunt all over town to find decorations with that theme. After Carter's birthday and my never ending search to find "Bob the Builder" party supplies (no such luck by the way......we definitely could use a party supply store here) I decided I would take Camden to the store and let him choose from the supplies they had available. Well he chose Spider Man. It is funny that he thinks Spider Man is so cool when I am pretty sure he has never seen anything to do with Spider Man. I guess it must just be a little boy/super hero thing. Anyway we got all of the plates/napkins etc. that were spider man themed...even spider man masks, which I was sure would be a hit with all of the little boys. Well the day of the party arrived and I realized I was a few spider man masks short along with a need of more plates so the morning of I was running back to the store only to find that there were no more masks to be found. I called Darin and he called every store in town to see if anyone had the masks. What do you know....Wal Mart had some but I was running out of time. Darin's brother and his wife were going to be coming to the party, they have a little boy Camden's age and said they would stop by and pick them up. I felt relieved since I still had to run to Macey's to get a pinata. Macey's always has a ton of them so I didn't even think twice about it. When Camden and I got there to pick one out, guess what....no pinatas. The party was going to start in 30 min. and I wasn't sure what to do. Camden's only request was to have a pinata! Well luckily Hobby Lobby is now in town and I had heard they sold pinata's there, but I did not have time to go there, so we called Darin's brother one more time and they agreed to pick one up on the way. So we went home and threw a great little party. Funny thing, we only had enough spider man plates for one setting so I got out different plates to use for the pizza. We ended up just handing the kids the cupcakes outside with no plates so there sat the spider man plates still in the plastic wrap. The spider man masks....I totally forgot to hand those out....thanks anyway Dan and Allison! The pinata was a hit however and I must apologize to every parent that sent their child to the party. I think they each had enough candy to buzz them uncontrollably for the next few days!

You might be wondering why cupcakes and not some incredible Spider Man cake. Well I felt as though the monster truck cake was enough creativity for the week and cupcakes was just going to have to do. It was easier to feed the kids anyway!



Here are all of the party goers.
Top L to R: Jaxon S., Parker E., Camden, Kyler and Kaden J. Kaden C.
Bottom: Allison and baby Saylor, Clayton T., Lewis S., Tanner B., Carter and Dallin
For a group of that many 2-5 year old boys they were great! Not nearly as crazy as I thought it would be!

The top picture is after the pinata broke and the kids were all diving for candy. Below is a picture of Camden getting ready to hit the pinata (which didn't make it in the picture). We made them wear a sombrero when it was there turn to swing. It was pretty funny!
So if you have been reading my blog you now I have been very eager for warm weather! Well this weekend certainly delivered. It was in the high 80's and since our yard is only a couple of years old and our trees are not shade producers just yet, so we had all of the kids sit under the tramp for presents and cupcakes so they could get out of the hot sun! It was was soooooo warm!!! I guess I can't complain because this weekend is suppose to be in the 60's with rain---I wouldn't have wanted 11 little boys running through my house....that is for sure!