GNO

Whenever someone has a birthday it's creates a perfectly good excuse to have a girls night out.  Thanks Ligia for being born because GNO was wonderful.  We went to a tapas restaurant in Bethesda which was wonderful.  I think only two out of the seven of us had had tapas before.  It was seriously good.

After dinner we hit Georgetown Cupcake.  That we the perfect way to end girls night.

Some Randomness and Shoes

Here are a few odds and ends from the month of April.  I will catch up to May just in time for it to end.

Seth found a sharpie and thought it would be funny to draw on his face.  Markers and our house are a VERY bad combination.

My cute little lady

Ok so I love having a little girl.  One of the reasons is the cute outfits and adorable shoes.  We had a shoe photo shoot because I love Andelyne's shoes.  Don't worry they don't all still fit here and I'm really good at finding cute clearance.

I must say these are my all time favorite.  Thank you Tara for letting me use them.

Seth is 5!!!

My kids are all getting too old.  Seth turned 5 on April 26th.  We had his birthday party before his actual birthday this year.  On his birthday Jake was able to take off work and spend the day with us doing fun things.  Seth doesn't have preschool on thursdays and his birthday happened to be on thursday this year so we had the whole day to have fun.  It began like like this.

I covered Seth's door with streamers.  Of course this was the one night he woke up in the middle of the night.  When he cam into my room I immediately thought he broke through and didn't even realize it.  When I went to put Seth back in bed I saw everything was still intact.  Seth had just slithered under the bottom half asleep.  In the morning both he and Tade slithered under the bottom.  I told them they got it all wrong and to go back and do it again.

This time they exited the right way.

We started the day by having breakfast at ihop.  Jake and I ate while Seth spend the entire meal watching police and their dogs search someone's car.  After breakfast we headed over to Chuck E Cheese.  It is empty at 10 am.  Seth has been asking me all year to go to Chuck E Cheese we when we pulled up and showed him his surprise activity he was one happy boy.

For Seth's birthday dinner he chose happy meals at McDonalds.  I tried to convince him he really wanted something else, but his mind was made up.  For his cake he chose ice cream cake.  I don't think the boys will ever choose that again.  It was way too hard to eat.

Birthday lunch on the special birthday plate.

This is Seth's awesome new Strider bike to learn he how to ride a two wheeler.  He can pretty much skip the training wheels stage.

Mesmerized by the candles or confused by moms mistake of only putting 4 candles on the cake not 5.  Oops, I must not want my little boy to grow up.

Favorites At 5:

Color - green

Food - chocolate

Toy - fire trucks and geo tracks

TV show - bubble guppies

Movie - anything Hayao Miyazaki

Song - Rumor Has It by Adele (Seth's version "umor has it")

Thing to do - playing it the back yard and getting as muddy and he can.  (he's good at it)

What he wants to be when he grows up - a train driver

Angry Birds Party!

For Seth's 5th birthday he wanted an Angry Birds party.  I looked for ideas online and found someone who had created a life sized angry birds game.  I thought it was pretty much awesome and knew it had to be created for Seth's party.  It started as a kids only party, but then parents started showing interest.  They wanted to come try to launch the angry birds and to film it.  Seth's party ended up turning into a family party.  Other than being a little crazy because we had to move it from Saturday afternoon to Friday evening due to weather it was a great party.

I found some easy decorations online.

We started the evening with pizza for dinner.

  

During dinner the kids mostly played in the backyard, but we did have a few other activities.  Pretty much everything we did had to do with throwing, hitting and knocking things down.  I made an angry birds knock the cans down game.

We also had a water balloon launcher.  The kids launched several.  Then I told them to grab some and just have fun.

The next part of the evening is what everyone came for...life size angry birds.  You can't play life size angry birds without life size angry birds.  I thought this was going to be hard and take forever, but it wasn't and I'm very proud of how they turned out.  This is what I did.

Print and cut out each section of the faces.

Then trace with a sharpie.

Then paint.

Pretty cool looking aren't they!?!?!

We had a photo shoot with the angry birds.

Of course Seth couldn't help but knock them down.

Andelyne couldn't help it either.

Our birds with the sling shot.  Thanks dad for creating this!

Our target, pigs included!

The action.  Everyone was able to do it.  If you notice my kids in different clothes it's because these pictures are from two different evenings.  There were so many people there for the party that I didn't get many good pictures.  We invited the Ainsworths over a few nights later to reenact the game so I could get better pictures and video footage.

Owen would just lean all the way back then let go.  He would end up flat on his back, but man the balls went flying.

We had some missed, but...

...we had some great hits too.  Our second night we had the best hits thanks to the missionaries who came over with the Ainsworths.  I did let them know that life size angry birds if not normal after most dinner appointments.

(I am working on editing some video we have of the party so check back later for that.)

While the launching was still going on I gathered Seth's friends and headed to the deck for the pinata.

Then it was cake time.  I love this cake because it is totally the game.  The best part though was how easy it was to make.

We also had cute goody bags.

Seth LOVES guns so he was very happy when he opened several water guns from his friends.

This is my 5 year old.  Man they grow up so fast.