Birthday party!

Well, Elijah is fast approaching his 3rd (!!!) birthday and we had his party this weekend. Last year we just did a family thing. This year we invited lots of his friends. We went to the Fun4Kidz play place in Aberdeen mall. It was pretty fun, not only for the kids but for some of the parents as well. They especially liked the nerf ball canons. :)

I decided to make the cake myself, with a construction theme. No surprise there. :) Here's a picture of the cake, after I finished decorating it.

So, after the kids played for about an hour and a half we went to the party room and had lunch. Then cake. We managed to get some shots of the kids eating and of Elijah blowing out his candles. Josh and Adam were eager to help!

When it was all over, we handed out "goody bags". I had Elijah decorate the name tags for each of the bags earlier in the week. It was a good project for him at home and that way I was able to use up a whole assortment of small bags I had collected around the house.

As a side note, of comical interest - when I was waiting with the kids by the party room and Gary and family were loading up the car, I asked for some plastic wrap to cover the rest of the cake. The guy I asked was busy and said I could ask for it at the front counter. Of course I couldn't just then as I had both kids and some bags with me. So, while I was waiting for Gary to come back from the car, I looked back at the cake and there was some random kid from another party playing with one of the trucks from the cake. I asked him not to and he stepped back from the cake. However, a few seconds later I looked back and he was playing with it again. As I went over to talk to him again he SNEEZED all over the cake!! Subsequently, there was no left over cake to bring home. :D

Anyway, we put the kids down for a nap when we got home and when Elijah got up he was allowed to open all his presents. He was pretty excited about it and got some excellent gifts! Lots of stuff to keep him busy for the next couple weeks, thank goodness!

So, thanks to everyone who was able to come and join us in celebrating his birthday!!