Life As We Know It: March 2013

THE AMAZING WILLIAM TURNS 4!

Here is a photo tribute to the great SPIDERMAN birthday party we had for our special little boy!

I am very proud of this party as I had to be creative as I had a strict budget for the party and was not able to splurge like I usually like to do.

The invitations I hand made, with help from my large stack of scrapbooking supplies (that never get used) and my handy dandy printer.

(SORRY CANT FIGURE OUT HOW TO FLIP THE PICTURE)

As many of you may have noticed I tend to run with a theme and go big when it comes to birthday decorations. This year the budget made me have to be more creative, and instead of buying high priced spiderman theme decorations I decided to use the colors RED, YELLOW and BLUE to harness my INNER SPIDERMAN. Why Red, Yellow and Blue you ask... I was going for RETRO Spiderman instead of the newer movie Spiderman (which in my opinion is way too advanced for William, a boy who cries during Charlie Brown).

As you can see Ballons and streamers! I also found these 'sticks' for the balloons so I didn't have to purchase helium filled balloons this year at $1.50/balloon. My hubby who has become more accepting of my anal-retentive decorating ways even designed a great spider-web in the living room out of streamers! It looked really neat!

Two days of birthday celebrations again this year. A 'kids' party on saturday and the family party sunday.

For the kids party we had acouple different activities lined up. A craft (for the girls... as my boy tends to lack the attention span for sit-still activities). The kids used paper plates and black yarn to design there own spiderwebs. (Supplies found around the house so cost was minimal!) Then I made a 'Spiderman Villian Hunt' where the kids each got a "Web-slinger" (dollar store gun toys) and got to hunt Villians!

As you can see I printed pictures of different Marvel Villians off and hung them from the ceiling on balloons. It was pretty fun, the kids liked it and even Aunty Anna was in on the 'web-slinging' fun! Unfortunetly the guns I bought at the dollar store broke after a few uses. But FUN while they LASTED!

And what birthday party doesnt have a Pinata? Well ours was not lacking this essential piece of Birthday fun! Clay and I made it out of a balloon and paper-mache. A messy little project but let us reminse of our childhoods!

The Pinata survived until sunday too, as we used ribbon pulls to open it on saturday. Here you see William and Cash trying to beat it open. I only put 2 layers of paper Mache on it, but boy it was sturdy! We finially had to get William to jump on it to break it!

Now the Food. Simplicity for this year, Hotdogs and chips for the kids birthday! With some other sweets and goodys mixed in. and of course the cake!

Designed and made with love and some foul words by me! :)

William was spoiled by his friends, he got some amazing gifts! And he got to visit and play with some great Friends who travelled from Whitecourt! It was a great day!

(PHOTO BOOTH... My NEW FAV THING!)

I used $1.00 plastic table cloths from the dollar store, and printed some "Spiderman" related signs then raided the dress up box!

On to DAY TWO, Sunday, Family Birthday Celebrations!

As we dont have many little kids in the family (yet... WINK WINK to clay's siblings!) Sunday was a busy day of food and visiting! A build your own sandwich bar with salads, fruit, veggies and chips filled our guests belly's. And William of course entertained!

Once again he got totally spoiled with gifts. This is him opening up his favorite new thing, MARIO KART FOR WII, courtesy of his aunties and uncles. He asks to play it every single day... and a strict time limit has now been implemented! (a Quick shout to all the Aunties and Uncles... your time is coming... Im a 'cool' auntie too...just wait to see what I get your kids!)

And Cake for this day too!