Birthday Interviews

Every year I think about doing those birthday interviews that I see lots of other moms doing and pretty much every year I forget.  Well, I got my act together last night (only a month late!) and decided to interview each of the kids.  And on a total whim I thought I'd video their responses and piece them together into a video.  I love the idea of having their little voices saying their answers to look back on in coming years.  I'm hoping to make this a yearly tradition!

Happy Birthday, Griffin Joy!

Dear Griffin Joy,

Today is a highly anticipated day at our house - you're turning FOUR!!!  You've been talking about it for weeks.  Well... two weeks to be exact.  As soon as Luke had his birthday and we told you yours was two weeks away you've made a point to tell everyone you meet that your birthday is in two weeks.  And every night at bedtime you ask us how many days until two weeks :)

T

Weekend Recap - Birthday Fun Edition

This weekend was jam packed.  I need a weekend to recover from this weekend.  But it's all good things so I wouldn't have slowed down the pace even if I was given the chance :)

Family Fiesta 2017

With all three kids having birthdays over the course of a little over two weeks we ran into a dilemma when it came to birthday parties.  The first year we were able to do a party for all three kids which worked great - but after that it got hard to figure out how we were going to invite grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. to three different birthday parties over the course of a couple of weeks.  We decided to throw a "family fiesta" and invite both sides of our family over and celebrate all three kids at one time and after the first year we knew it was a tradition that would be sticking around.  

Weekend Recap - Luke's Birthday Edition

Happy Monday, Friends!!!  This weekend was a whirlwind and so much fun!

Happy (early) Birthday, Luke

Dear Luke,

You’re turning 9 this Saturday and I say this every year – but I just can’t believe it.  It feels like last week I was buckling you into your stroller and pushing you back and forth on the stone floor in our first house to get you to sleep.  And that 5 days ago you were two and lining up cars on the front windowsill while wearing only your underwear.  It must have been just last weekend that you put on that red polo for the first time and started Pre-K and surely it was yesterday that you were sitting next to me on the couch with your pointer finger out and ready as we worked through your reading practice. 

Sir Mason's Knight Party

Sir Mason The Brave asked me for a Knight party fairly out of the blue and I was happy to oblige his little four-year-old whim.

I lucked out and found the Brave Knight collection of Meri Meri products on Zulily a while ago which made decorating a total breeze.  One of my favorite girls, Karla, had some great wooden shields and swords that she loaned me as well and they were a great finishing touch.

His party was on a Friday from 5:00 - 6:00 and he invited 5 friends.  Two were out of town so we ended up with a small crowd. 

I ordered cupcakes from Market Street and then set them in special liners and topped them off with knight toppers (from Zulily)

The little gold cups I ordered from Amazon and I gave the boys each one in their favor bags to take home as well.

I set up a little craft for when they first arrived... making shields!

I cut out shields and handle strips and put out foam stickers and lots of crayons.  The boys decorated them and then I just taped the handle onto the back.

I set everything up before Dave picked everyone up from school/Miss Lisa's house and was READY to party when they got home.  Don't Mason and G look excited?!?!?! ;) hahaha

Mason checked everything out and then told me he wanted to do a "princess dance" with me.  I die.

Luke IMMEDIATELY wanted to change his clothes when he got home - gray shorts and a grey sweatshirt... just like a "real knights armor" ;) He shares my passion for a good theme!

After making shields, we headed outside so they could throw water balloons at our "fire breathing dragon".

Dave is THE BEST sport!!!

This is my favorite!!!

Luke throws the water balloon at Dave's chest...

It ricocheted off his chest...

And popped right at Luke's feet ;)

Priceless!!!  And I love the other boys reactions ;)

We ate "royal pizza"...

... and cheersed our glasses ;)

I loved that Mason included Griffin in his party ;)

After dinner we opened presents and did a little sword fighting...

These three buddies go to Miss Lisa's house together.  God Bless, Miss Lisa!

We loaded up their party bags with their shields, swords, cups, masks, party hats, hot wheels car and balloons and called it a night!  

Mason told me later it was THE BEST PARTY IN THE HISTORY OF PARTIES!!! and I would have to agree.  It was so fun to see him with his friends and really make it all about just him!