Fabulous FIVE

I'm continuing with my tradition of getting a blog post up no later than the last day of the month following the event. :) Hey...I'm even a day early. Luke turned 5 and got his first official birthday party with invites, decorations, and yes...even a pinata. I don't know what happened to the days of drop your kids off for a few balloons, party hats, and pin the tail on the donkey in the backyard type parties. It seems like these days you have to have an elaborate theme, a full meal for the parents, some form of entertainment, a jump house and a really expensive venue. Well I decided to go a little old school in our backyard. We did kind of have a theme of Splish Splash or in other words...get as wet as you can!

The kids celebrated in a good old fashioned white trash pool. I made up my own bounce house by using our enclosed trampoline and blowing up a ton of balloons to fill it. The kids had a blast popping them all in the first 10 minutes so I didn't get a picture. I thought it was pretty cool! :) Next up was a little slip-n-slide action. The best $10 I spent!!! Of course, I could have really gone old school and used some trash bags, a few rocks to hold it down, and a hose.

Timmy (Luke's cousin) was not a fan..... I think there was a little too much excitement for him.

He preferred the solace of the snack table instead.

Next up was the pinata. I thought the baseball made sense. Poor Lindsay (another of Luke's cousins)...the lone girl. That's a lot of shirtless boys!

only took about a 1000 swings to break that thing open!

I figured if there was an injury it was going to be someone getting whacked in the head with the bat but we ended up with a bee sting instead :( Poor Jake!

And then the exciting unveiling of my Splish Splash cake :). I always think my cakes look like little kid drawings. I'm very excited to do a girl cake in another month!

More shirtless boys....

While all the cake chaos was going on up on the deck...Timmy got a little RnR alone time in the blow up pool.

Finally...present time! My favorite phrase was courtesy of Tryg: "Whoa that is AWESOME!!!"

Party over and two little boys all tuckered out in front of a movie. I love it when they play so hard they end the day like this!

So when I first brought up the idea of having a splish splash birthday party and told Mark I wanted to have a little blow up pool and slip-n-slide the first thing he said was "NO!". A bit surprised by his quick reply I thought..." wow that was a little rash" He then said "It will ruin the grass!". I of course argued that it would do no such thing and thought he was over reacting and being a bit of a party pooper. It wasn't going to be there that long... how could it kill the grass that fast? He finally let me have my way but still held his ground about the ruining the grass thing. Well....apparently he was right. My bad!

Splish Splash a success (minus the dead grass), Mom's a hero, and I don't have to do another birthday party for at least 2 more years when the next one turns 5! Bring on Kindergarten for Luke!!!