So on the 7th of June our Jaxon Turned 9 my how the time flies! I have made it a point to only do birthday parties every other year in an attempt to keep my sanity because I can't help but get a little carried away. This year was Jaxon's year and one of my favorites (I think that I always say that after a party??) anyway it started out that I thought it would be fun to go paint balling but after thinking about it and checking prices YIKES! I decided the kids were a little bit young and WAY to expensive. So it started to evolve and my sister suggested marshmallow guns and we just took off. We sent "official" letters of Induction that said something like you are hereby ordered for induction into the us army the dads have taken over the playground and your top secret mission is to TAKE IT BACK. We had them report to boot camp....
At boot camp they received there "uniform" and dog tags and we did a little bit of "Boot camp" which pretty much meant I yelled a lot and they did push ups if they didn't say sir yes sir and didn't have there toes on the line, we did a few exercises and army crawled a little then we sent them to the "Mess tent" for cake and Ice cream....
Oh and of course we took there "ID" photo" which I will print and take to there houses with a thank you (no I have not done that yet yikes) anyway so cute against the flag and the camo (p.s. the shirts we tie died ourselves and they turned out so fun) I love parties with costumes it makes for such cute pictures. Anyway the cake was an army tank and decorated camo the funnest part was that the cake itself was camo as well so so fun (an Idea that I cannot take credit for, thank goodness for the Internet) After we sang happy birthday and ate cake and Ice cream we opened present. Then the kids built there guns.....
An idea that my sister thought of afterwards (just in case your interested) was to have them have races to "assemble the guns" we didn't have time to do that anyway they just had a couple of minutes to put some tape on them to decorate. I then gave them there ammo and rations ( I made a bag to put the marshmallows in and a section for some trail mix and beef jerky. We then "Marched to battle" so so fun. There is a hollow several blocks from our home. I think Grin thought I was nuts but I marched them all the way and we sang left right left and the ants go marching. They sang and marched the whole way. The kids dads were waiting in the hollow ready for attack......
We thought they might play a few games of 'Steel the Flag" or something but the dads attacked right away and it just turned into a running and hiding and shooting match. They played for a good 45 minutes and had a BLAST!! I think even the dads had a good time. I was just so grateful so many of them were willing to go along with my craziness. We had all the boys dads there except one! It was a huge hit and Jaxon was ecstatic about it and I loved it because I didn't really have to plan games and I got to yell a lot and make kids do push ups! (p.s. by the way most of them couldn't do a real push up to save there lives so so FUNNY!)
At boot camp they received there "uniform" and dog tags and we did a little bit of "Boot camp" which pretty much meant I yelled a lot and they did push ups if they didn't say sir yes sir and didn't have there toes on the line, we did a few exercises and army crawled a little then we sent them to the "Mess tent" for cake and Ice cream....
Oh and of course we took there "ID" photo" which I will print and take to there houses with a thank you (no I have not done that yet yikes) anyway so cute against the flag and the camo (p.s. the shirts we tie died ourselves and they turned out so fun) I love parties with costumes it makes for such cute pictures. Anyway the cake was an army tank and decorated camo the funnest part was that the cake itself was camo as well so so fun (an Idea that I cannot take credit for, thank goodness for the Internet) After we sang happy birthday and ate cake and Ice cream we opened present. Then the kids built there guns.....
An idea that my sister thought of afterwards (just in case your interested) was to have them have races to "assemble the guns" we didn't have time to do that anyway they just had a couple of minutes to put some tape on them to decorate. I then gave them there ammo and rations ( I made a bag to put the marshmallows in and a section for some trail mix and beef jerky. We then "Marched to battle" so so fun. There is a hollow several blocks from our home. I think Grin thought I was nuts but I marched them all the way and we sang left right left and the ants go marching. They sang and marched the whole way. The kids dads were waiting in the hollow ready for attack......
We thought they might play a few games of 'Steel the Flag" or something but the dads attacked right away and it just turned into a running and hiding and shooting match. They played for a good 45 minutes and had a BLAST!! I think even the dads had a good time. I was just so grateful so many of them were willing to go along with my craziness. We had all the boys dads there except one! It was a huge hit and Jaxon was ecstatic about it and I loved it because I didn't really have to plan games and I got to yell a lot and make kids do push ups! (p.s. by the way most of them couldn't do a real push up to save there lives so so FUNNY!)Ok so I had to add a big picture of the cake because you can't really see the camo inside from the small pics and I think it is so fun!
GOOD TIMES!!
GOOD TIMES!!
1 comment:
WOW! You are so fun! I love to see the parties that you come up with...your kids are so lucky...I'll have to remember this idea for River when he's a little older.
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