The Parties!

Brad's after school party was wild to say the least! With 7 invited friends, Brad and Zach, plus my nephew and niece that I was babysitting, Dustin and I were hopping busy the entire time! Luckily, we had decided to keep it short, anticipating the chaos.

Adding to the chaos was rain! The boys had a great time playing outside until supper was ready, but there was no way I wanted all 11 kids in the house to eat, (sorry, just not my idea of a good time) so very last minute (like 2 minutes before the mini pizza's were out of the oven!) we moved everything into the shop. It actually worked really well in there, the boys had no problem using snowmobiles and shop stools for chairs, and I couldn't care less if drinks and food hit the floor with all the silliness.

The cupcake cones I made for the kids party.

The little bro - loving hanging out with Brad's friends.

My cutie nephew.

My cutie neice.

Saturday, Brad's actual birthday, we had a wiener roast with family and some friends. I think we changed our minds about ten times throughout the day on whether or not to move it inside. It was a drizzly morning, so we decided to plan for indoors - and then it stopped raining and dried up enough that Brad's disappointment with not having the fire made us change it back to outside. Only problem were the mosquitoes and the still threatening looking cloud cover which had us go back and forth all day with deciding. In the end, we were outside, and we didn't get rained out until after supper, and with bug spay the mosquitoes were tolerable.
I think it was a great evening! I forgot to charge my camera's batteries, so I didn't get a picture of Brad blowing out his candles - it died when I was videoing, so I still have that at least.

The cake for the family party. Nope, didn't make it; bought it. I thought it was cute with the icecream cones around it...

Can't wait for our hedges to grow BIG and FULL for some privacy! Love being on a corner lot, hate not having the privacy yet!

Zach and my other cutie neice.

Presents! What a haul this kid got!! LEGO GALORE! Thank you so much to everyone for the great gifts - he's been hidden away in his room since the party ended either putting together Lego, or playing Lego Batman, or debating on what Lego to buy with his money from Grandparents and Great Grandparents! He is one loved and blessed boy!