Tomorrow is the actual day and I'll leave my sentimentality for then.
Today Christopher had his birthday party. He really wanted me to do a Super Mario Bros. theme. So, I started searching online and picking friends' brains for ideas and I think we pulled it off. We only let the kids have a "friend party" every other year.
Here's the whole party crowd (minus Gma and Gpa Armstrong)
We started with decorating our treat bags while Bret and Grandpa went to get the pizza.
Next was all the pizza, chips, and soda they could drink. I really thought so many 8 and 9 year olds would devour every speck of food we had, but they were all more interested in jumping on the trampoline. We're going to be eating on pizza for a few days.
Eliza likes her pizza!
After our nosh we played "Pin the Mustache on Mario". There was lots of funny spots to put mustaches. Xander very excitedly won this one.
Everyone gets their mustaches.
Next we squashed Koopa Troopas for coins. Anyone that isn't in the know with Super Mario (like me) should know that a Koopa Troopa is a turtle and you jump on them for coins. Our Koopa Troopas were green balloons with gold coins in them. Some had 2 or 3 and couple had 5-8. The kids would run to a chair and pop their balloons to find out how many coins they got and collect them in their bags.
The next game the kids had to use their brick blocks (just a piece of cardboard with bricks painted on) and jump on them to get to a finish line. If you tossed your brick too far and couldn't land on it then you had to go back to the beginning. When you reached the finish line you could go into that part of the yard and search for coins. There were also 3 boxes containing 12 coins each.
After this we had our pinata, which we made to look like a Bomb-Omb. We went youngest to oldest for turns to whack it and it was the 2nd oldest (Kaleb) who broke it open. Our pinata was full of candy and more coins. Everyone counted up their coins and the person with the most coins won a prize.
Daniel Makes everyone laugh with his bomb-omb head
The presents. Christopher's favorite part. And great big cupcakes from Costco. It was a fun day with perfect weather and, I think, very memorable for Christopher.
3 comments:
Oh my gosh that looks like so much fun! Good job Marissa! Christopher will always have the memory of such a fun party. He is such a sweet boy! Love you all!
I can't believe how big they are all getting! I can't wait to see you in June. We'll be in Utah the second week :)
You are so creative. I want to be like you. That party looks awesome!! Also congrats on 9 years.
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